2006-08-27 14:58:14 · 8 answers · asked by graycee 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I was born in the ghetto, and tennis shoes on a power line means that drugs are sold near there..Be careful.
Peace
2006-08-27 15:21:25 · answer #1 · answered by Plus-Sized &Proud 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what it means now, but yrs ago it was just a good way to retire a pr of sneaks in the city. You couldn't cross one urban intersection in S. Phila without seeing hundreds of pairs strung across the powerline over the street. I never seen a pair fall either for that matter.
2006-08-27 15:54:59 · answer #2 · answered by frith25 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Used to be a gang sign--sneakers hanging over telephone or electrical wires were to designate gang turf.
That's just one of many urban legends I discovered from googling this topic!
2006-08-27 15:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by LadySlipper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either someone is barefoot, or has gone to the great power truck in the sky the hard way.
2006-08-27 15:07:16 · answer #4 · answered by mikeae 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While urban legend blames everything from gang activity to devil worship, what I have read leads me to believe that someone got drunk &/or high & just decided that was a good place for them.
2006-08-27 15:07:53 · answer #5 · answered by Darma 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means the kid who threw them up there was either lucky or a good tosser!!
2006-08-27 15:03:41 · answer #6 · answered by richard c 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means someone is now barefoot
2006-08-27 15:05:30 · answer #7 · answered by frogger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means someone tied them together and threw them up there
2006-08-27 15:03:24 · answer #8 · answered by Billy Bob 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋