Trainer vending machine

Posted by Duncan Madden on Tue 15 Apr 2008

Lose shoes, put in money, enter code, get new shoes

You know what it's like; you've been on a 12-hour bender, only to wake in a doorway at four in the morning and some trainer magpie has pinched your shoes.

We've all been there. Which is (probably) why the crazy Japs at Onitsuka Tiger have installed the UK's first trainer vending machine on London's Carnaby Street.

Trainers 24/7 - why's no-one thought of it before? The vending machine, not dissimilar to those found selling spicy tomato Wheat Crunchies in your local leisure centre, contains 24 pairs of trainers in six different sizes for undisclosed prices.

If it all sounds too good to be true, you'd best make tonight the night you need it because from tomorrow it's off on a tour of notorious trainer-theft-cum-binge-drinking spots around the country.