shoe tossing

[The Notorious LOL]

theres a pair of shoes hanging off the powerline near my house.


I wonder what it means. Probably GANG AND DRUG RELATED ACTIVITIES

[adrockmelanie]

when i first moved to arkansas, we passed a tree that had hundreds of pairs of shoes hanging from the branches. i wonder what this means. oh wait. probably that trash arkansans waste their money on shoes that they throw away so they have an excuse to get food stamps and buy nothing but $400 worth of candy, chips, and pop. that's how it goes at my work anyway.

[Bob]

my roommate freshman year told me that it means someone's selling drugs...or crack, i forget. now, everytime i see shoes hanging from a power line i try to figure out which window the dealer lives in

[King PSYZ]

the way I heard it in LA was if you got jumped they would take your shoes and toss em on the wire to add insult on injury.

[trailerprincess]

I heard it was to serve as a warning for people with bad footwear, that the fashion police would come and kill you and leave your shoes as all that remained of you*

Kind of like when they used to behead people and leave their heads on stakes for all to see.






* this might be a lie

[TurdBerglar]

the midnight tight rope walker bandit had a bit of an accident

[paul jones]

I suppose it's just fun to do really

get some shoes,tie the laces together

fling

[zorra_chiflada]

i'd do it to someone if they pissed me off.

[paul jones]

i'd do it to someone if they pissed me off.
that's was usually the reason when I was a youth(y)

[The Notorious LOL]

hi adrockmelanie.

[befsquire]

there was a whole thread about this, but i can't remember when. i think it got purged.

anyway, it supposedly means there's a crack house nearby.

[Pres Zount]

What would it mean if there was a tree full of them? There is a tree full of hundreds of crackhouses nearby?

[skra75]

my roommate freshman year told me that it means someone's selling drugs...or crack, i forget. now, everytime i see shoes hanging from a power line i try to figure out which window the dealer lives in

I went for a walk in my neighborhood and just saw two kids toss thier old shoes onto their houses power line, now the hippies in the hood are gonna come ringing on their door for drugs

[Dr Deaf]

there was a whole thread about this, but i can't remember when. i think it got purged.

anyway, it supposedly means there's a crack house nearby.

i made that thread. in it, i mentioned that i thought since the phenom mostly occured in inner city, poverty stricten areas that perhaps it was symbolic of when black folks hung from trees. like, "WE WILL NEVER FORGET111!!ELEVEN!"

i later learned i had put entirely too much thought into my theory. it means drug or criminal activity in the neighbourhood.

before i left canada my roomies and i flung a half dozen pairs on the power lines directly in front of our house. everything from patent leather dress shoes to runners and hiking boots.

13+ mos later the originals are still there and copy cats have sprouted up throughout the neighbourhood. oh shit, its a hood thing, you wouldn't understand.

smogtown proud: 1975-2005

:cool:

[abcdefz]

In Wag the Dog it was an homage to Good Old Shu'. (y)


A spontaneous* act of patriotism.

"Those are some RATTY-ASS sneakers."

"Here -- try it, kid!"

*toss*

[Dr Deaf]

it really is a liberating feeling.

why just toss old shoes out, when they can be memorialized semi-permanently.

[ericlee]

on the military base, if people have completed their tour of whatever branch they were in, they'd fling their combat boots to hang from the wire in front of their barracks.

There was like 30 pairs on this one and it was buckling down and looked like it was about to snap.

[Dr Deaf]

on the military base, if people have completed their tour of whatever branch they were in, they'd fling their combat boots to hang from the wire in front of their barracks.

There was like 30 pairs on this one and it was buckling down and looked like it was about to snap.


that really surprises me. i guess the US Army Corps of Engineers mainly specializes in levee building, not hydro electric infrastructure.

Do one thing and do it well, i reckon.