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What does it mean when someone ties their shoes together by the laces and then throws them over a power line? I’ve seen shoes dangling on power lines in movies and around town, generally in low-income neighborhoods.
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Name : Jodi30579, Gender : F, Age : 25, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States,Maybe they were put there by some big bully who chased down some poor innocent little school boy and wanted to humiliate the poor bastard.
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Name : Audra-Z, Gender : F, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States,Thank you Kyle, for being the voice of reason! I have lived in the inner city of Boston for a very long time. And yes, there is gang activity here, the same as in every other low-income area. But never had I heard of such paranoid explanations to try and rationalize a childish prank. I know the following to be true, in Boston, anyway: A) Sneakers are not a sign of drug availability when tossed onto a powerline. If that were the case, there would be several pair tossed onto powerlines in upper-class neighborhoods, in front of doctors and lawyers offices, as well as in front of a few preachers’ homes and universities. Drug activity is not just in low-income neighborhoods. B) Gangs would not be stupid enough to mark their ‘safe house’ with a pair of sneakers pitched over the powerline in front of their gang-related spot. They try not to be noticed by law enforcement, because of their illegal activity. Would you put a sign in front your home, which was under construction, that read: ‘I don’t have a building permit for the work currently being done on my home. All this work being done is total illegally’ if you didn’t have the proper permit?
Sneaker are thrown over powerlines for three reasons: A) Children are being children and pulling a childish prank; B) To discourage birds and small animals from climbing powerlines (it discourages injury to the animal, and animals from leaving ‘gifts’ on car windshields); C) Bullies will often steal a victim’s shoes, and throw them where they cannot be reached.
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Name : ML22281, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : biracial, Religion : Catholic, Age : 29, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower class,Thank you!why can’t some things just be kids being kids?
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Name : S.s., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 25, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : student/Admin Assist., Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,I have lived in very many small towns in many states where gangs just don’t exist. Every one of these towns has at least one pair of baby shoes hanging over a powerline. From what I have been told when asking about it, it is a marker of a young one’s death.
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Name : B., Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Baptist, Age : 30, City : Carr, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I don’t think it means anything in particular, coming from people i know that grew up in Brooklyn in the fifties and sixties in rough italian and irish neighborhoods. Its just something the school kids do when they walk home from school.
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Name : manny, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 26, City : jersey city, State : NJ, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Interesting that a drug addict who hung with the Crips would deny that shoes on power lines have anything to do with drugs. Trying to steer us in the wrong direction? I own an apartment building in the ‘not so nice’ part of town. I’m in the middle of evicting a known drug dealer who is out on bail right now. Today I went to my property to take a look and found two pair of shoes hanging from the power lines in the back alley. Coincidence? I think not.
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Name : Darcy, City : Tulsa, State : OK, Country : United States,Certainly the male art of tennis shoes on the power lines indicate a drug (or crack) house. It also indicates gang territory marking (the way dogs urinate is quite similar, which is tantamount to humans’ graffiti). It also indicates random acts of adolescent copy-catting. So there can be a drug house first and people get the idea to also throw other shoes on the telephone or power lines. Naturally people bugged by this trenchant detritus can invent a telescopic pair of shoe-lace-cuttin’ shears and go around town removing these shoes AT HIS OR HER OWN RISK.
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Name : Frederic E. Kahler, City : Las Vegas, State : NV, Country : United States,you all need to lighten up a little bit… as soon as you see something youw ouldnt do you automatically assume its gang or drug related… throwin shoes over power lines was somethin we did as kids- you wouldnt believe how good it feels to walk back into my old neighborhood and still see my old pump up sneakers still hanging.. its a part of our culture just like grafitti and bums on the corner- get a grip
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Name : Grip, City : Brooklyn, State : NY, Country : United States,
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