Boots
Until moving here, I had never seen shoes tied and hung from electric lines before. Where I grew up, electric, telephone, and television cables were maintained underground.
It wasn't until today, prompted by taking this picture, that I finally remembered to look up "shoes power lines" and discovered the term for this activity: shoe tossing or shoe flinging.
Reasons apparently vary from a man celebrating losing his virginity to signifying a crack house, graduating from school to mourning the dead (deceased's shoes are flung).
Aside from mourning the dead, someone out there is missing a pair of shoes. Hopefully it didn't occur in the dead of winter unexpectedly.
- Cassaendra
4 deep thoughts:
(sigh)... what a waste!
I know, yah?
I've always lived where the lines were above grown so I've been seeing this stuff since I was a kid. I had NO IDEA it actually meant something. I just always thought it was kids being kids!
Howdy Mrs. L,
I was quite surprised myself that there was some significance, aside from bullying/kids having fun.
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