I see this all the time with them tied together and thrown over phone lines. Does it mean something?
2006-08-01 12:23:28 · 10 answers · asked by Curious 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It used to, but has just become an act of vandalism now.
"It's popularly believed that tennis shoes hanging from utility wires designate "gang territory" or a location to buy street drugs, but that theory fails to account for the hefty percentage of shoes dangling over non-gang neighborhoods and quiet streets in rural towns where there's little or no gang and drug activity to be found." according to one site. http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/factoids/a/sneakers.htm
2006-08-01 12:28:42 · answer #1 · answered by sobrien 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
haaaa i see this a lot too im in england i just always thought that it was a bunch of kids tormenting another poor kid taking his shoes and lobbing them over some dam wires where the poor kid wont ever get them back just today i saw a black pair of shoes in the middle of a green together tied up. and i autmatically thought oh well some poor mums got to replace them before there kid goes back to school...i didnt even know it had a meaning..wow you learn something new every day...haaaaa.
2006-08-01 12:35:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means nothing. I used to see tennis shoes on the highway all the time and wonder how they got there. When I had my favorite pair of Nike's replaced, I threw them on the highway in a funeral type ceremony. I loved those shoes. I can't say where I live, because littering is against the law. ;)
2006-08-01 12:27:33 · answer #3 · answered by MEL T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that it means there's a drug dealer in the neighborhood, and I've also heard that it means a child in the neighborhood died. I'm not sure which is true or where either definition came from.
I guess that's not very helpfull.
2006-08-01 12:26:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to know this too. Good observation, I'm sure there is some reason for it. Why would someone want to do that to a perfectly good pair of shoes?
2006-08-01 12:27:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thought it meant drug dealers in the neighborhood, but probably isn't, as drugs are really a word-of-mouth kind of business.
2006-08-01 12:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by emmadropit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the spot where a perosn was killed! in memory of them they hang thier sneakers up!
2006-08-01 12:27:14 · answer #7 · answered by coldilocks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a measure of good luck.
2006-08-01 12:32:38 · answer #8 · answered by Brendy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep gang territory, but its too popular now that it means nothing
2006-08-01 12:29:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you live in the ghettos... welcome.
2006-08-01 12:26:54 · answer #10 · answered by dood! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋