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Published: 2008-05-31 00:58:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1487; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 39
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I'd always notice these shoes hanging on the power lines on the highway out of town. They were up there for a couple years, but I guess someone finally got a ladder and claimed them.Location of photograph: [link]
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Ranger-26 [2008-06-03 18:44:28 +0000 UTC]
That's not true at all, sometimes i see shoes on the telephones on the line close to where i live. Its an old tradition that says your staying in the city or town that you threw your shoes in.
The shoes is a way of showing your commitment to staying in the town and saying that your never planning on leaving.
Its very poetic, but seeing the comments its a lost tradition
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Ranger-26 In reply to Ranger-26 [2008-06-03 18:47:56 +0000 UTC]
Thats what it meant in my town anyways, there are alot of things shoes on a line can mean.
For more information click:
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davincipoppalag [2008-05-31 07:58:15 +0000 UTC]
I see that around here too. I always figure its the work of some bully picking on a smaller kid by throwing his shoes up on the wires
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tfavretto In reply to davincipoppalag [2008-06-02 02:15:39 +0000 UTC]
That wouldn't surprise me in this case. It's right across from a high school.
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davincipoppalag In reply to tfavretto [2008-06-02 09:32:12 +0000 UTC]
Yea... I was always the new kid, because we moved every 3 years (military brat).. but fortunately I was well over 6 feet tall by 6th grade so I didnt get much bullying...I saw others getting it though
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PrincessValium [2008-05-31 07:41:33 +0000 UTC]
it reminds me the hanging shos in big fish by burton ^^
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tfavretto In reply to aquarius-galuxy [2008-06-02 02:14:59 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, they were up there for at least two years.
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aquarius-galuxy In reply to tfavretto [2008-06-02 02:53:22 +0000 UTC]
The power lines are low enough to be reached? o-o
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tfavretto In reply to aquarius-galuxy [2008-06-02 02:55:13 +0000 UTC]
Only with a good throw, or a ladder.
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aquarius-galuxy In reply to tfavretto [2008-06-02 04:17:26 +0000 UTC]
=o So the shoes were put there with some luck or some effort? Then maybe they shouldn't be removed?
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Destroyer77 [2008-05-31 03:16:46 +0000 UTC]
Someone actually told me what those shoes on the phone line stand for....it means there's drug dealers in the area...I'd be careful there
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tfavretto In reply to Destroyer77 [2008-06-02 02:14:39 +0000 UTC]
Haha, it's possible, but it's no worse than most other parts of town.
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skoticus [2008-05-31 01:46:13 +0000 UTC]
there are streets in DC lined with these shoes. The legend I've heard (and I'm pretty sure its true) is that the shoes are flung up there as a tribute to someone who died.
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