August 3, 2006
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Can somebody explain to me why people tie a pair of shoes together and fling them onto telephone wires? A couple weeks ago I spotted a pair of white and red tennis shoes hanging from telephone wires in the neighborhood near my work. I've noticed this occurance in other neighborhoods many other times. I've often wondered if it's just boredom that leads people to do this or if this is a kind of move-in ritual related to some superstition. Anyhoo, I just noticed today that there is a second pair of shoes hanging next to the white and red ones. WTH?
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I've done this before. But it was a prank. Koreans typically leave their shoes outside (or, at least, we used to) so it was easy to tie your friend's new pair of K-Swiss's and throw them up there.
you do it to kids you don't like. bumrush the kid, take off his shoes, tie em, and toss em. especially when the kids you know aren't very well-off, it's kind of a punk thing to do to them because shoes aren't cheap.
in my school's neighborhood, it usually indicates that the house that it's in front of is a drug house.
Wow. Keep 'em coming. This is highly enlightening.
dude, i've always wondered about this too! this is TOTALLY popular in bloomington. almost every block has a pair of shoes on the telephone line. does this mean that we have many many many crack houses?
it's the crackhouse theory. remember how many there were in k-town? it's all so clear now....
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