| User | Comment |
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Melf    | | posted 15-Nov-2007 3:20pm |
I thought it was gang territory. I'd do this if I had an old pair of ratty shoes. Very cool survey! |
| thecomic22 | | posted 15-Nov-2007 3:51pm |
Theres a pair in town that have been dangling off the wires on main street as far back as I can remember. I've often wondered where the hell they came from, how they got up there, & why havint they fell off by now. |
| labjog | | posted 15-Nov-2007 4:04pm |
We have very big vultures in these parts, the shoes on lines around here are from kids who are playing out side and become a victim of a hungry vulture, as they are being carried away by the scruff of their necks they kick their legs so hard that the laces get tangled together and their shoes go flying, sometimes the shoes land on the wires and become a sort of memorial to the child. People have been warned to keep their children chained to the ground, but some people just don't listen. |
| cerealkiller | | posted 15-Nov-2007 4:16pm |
They are there to establish gang terrorities. Plain and simple... |
Kristal_Rose   | | posted 15-Nov-2007 6:35pm |
Someone in LA hangs purple dove signs over intersections, counter-balanced by padlocks. Not sure what the intended message is.
It only just occurred to me the other day (hence the survey) that people didn't part with their shoes willingly. I'm glad I stayed ignororant of this grim possibility for 44 years. |
| romkey | | posted 15-Nov-2007 8:27pm |
I've only ever seen this on The Simpsons. |
| llamamama | | posted 15-Nov-2007 9:27pm |
Well, I always thought it was a bunch of jerks. My friends mom said though, that they always used to do that right before the new school year after they bought new shoes. I like to think the shoes willed themselves up there, and were too scared to get down. |
LindaH  | | posted 15-Nov-2007 10:01pm |
They play this game in the streets, "Who can kick the highest?" Only just like their pants, they wear their shoes 8 sizes too big. They tie them together so they stay near when they fall off as they walk. Easier to find that way. Anyway, when you compete high-kicks in oversized shoes under a powerline, sometimes the shoes win. |
| mrmarm | | posted 15-Nov-2007 11:31pm |
It's an Australian thing and it means; drugs are sold here, seriously, I lived in suburbia and there are a few around here the rural region I live in, yeah country kids do drugs too. |
JessicaWoman99  | | posted 15-Nov-2007 11:52pm |
I have not seen shoes dangle from a wire somebody must be doing drugs here |
| Enheduanna | | posted 16-Nov-2007 12:04am |
I don't know. |
they  | | posted 16-Nov-2007 6:30am |
I thought it was supposed to mean it's a drug dealer's house? |
| Amanda | | posted 16-Nov-2007 10:40am |
It involves being wasted. |
bill  | | posted 16-Nov-2007 1:56pm |
I think it's just kind of fun, you know? ... a kind of almost whimsical vandalism. They do well in trees too... I wonder if someone has already posted the picture of that shoe tree... |
| bill | | posted 16-Nov-2007 1:57pm |
Oh dear, I didn't realize it was gang. OK, maybe that's not "fun". |
| LindaH | | (reply to bill) posted 16-Nov-2007 3:18pm |
I think it seems more like littering than vandalism, unless the shoes damage the line somehow. (I think sticking stickers to things is more like littering than vandalism too, but the law says it's vandalism. That's weird.) |
| RGirl | | posted 16-Nov-2007 7:55pm |
Secret meaning. I have heard, but don't think it is true, that it designates a neighborhood where drugs are sold. |
| Kristal_Rose | | posted 17-Nov-2007 3:08am |
Glad I asked. Gangs and drugs hadn't occurred to me eiher. I liked the loose shoes theory. I really loved the 'willed themselves up there' theory. |
| Lahdee | | posted 17-Nov-2007 9:41am |
Military people throw boots when they get out, I think. I think people do this when they move out of a neighborhood. I'm not sure. I know there is some reason behind it. |
| Lahdee | | posted 17-Nov-2007 9:42am |
I guess I was way off. lol |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Lahdee) posted 18-Nov-2007 5:34pm |
Don't take anyone elses opinions here as gospel. Unless they're in with those who actually dangle shoes, they don't know for sure either. It could be done with diverse motives or meanings, and probably is. |
| cabinfever | | posted 18-Nov-2007 10:27pm |
The options made me laugh.... someone was thinking way too hard way too late in the night.... with a canister of coffee... sugar only. Good survey.  |
| Kristal_Rose |
Yeah, that's about it, but I was genuinely wondering a touch, and was mindful of composing for humors sake.
In retrospect the syle is a bit like like the opening credits of Monty Python's 'Jabberwocky' ('My sister was bit by a moose'). Part of what makes this survey work is indicated by one of the options, none of us really know for sure. |
| cabinfever |
The part about 'My sister was bit by a moose' reminded me of my poem on the 'What's your problem?' survey. Funky, out there things mixed with the mundane. |
| Kristal_Rose |
Don't recall, I'll have to revisit. |
| cloudhugger | | posted 21-Nov-2007 1:06pm |
I have heard in theory it marks where the drug houses are. And all the ones I see in town are just next to drug houses. So I am not sure, but that is what the kids tell me. |
| kcthedog | | posted 24-Nov-2007 9:32pm |
I must admit the time and effort required to compose this survey was great! So much so that I really have no other answer I could contribute, so I chose “Thank God it's just shoes” |
| docgbrown | | posted 25-Nov-2007 5:49pm |
In and around military bases, departing service-personnel will sometimes leave their tied boots up there hanging, indicating that they, and no one else will ever use those boots again for military service. Me, well I still wear mine as I’m still in the military. |
