Seen it alot in US and in films...Why do they do it? What does it mean? My Brother-in-law said something about people being killed but wasnt sure.
2006-11-18 06:39:32 · 13 answers · asked by Ah! 5 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Other - United States
I've seen it with my own ickle eyes...not just on films!
2006-11-18 06:46:33 · update #1
Hm, thats funny... i live here, and have NEVER seen nor heard of such a thing. Thats just stupid! NOT to mention, against the laws. You cant mess with any kind of lines..rather, power or cable or telephone.
Movies.. are just exactly THAT, their MOVIES!!!
2006-11-18 06:45:22 · answer #1 · answered by debs 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I thought that it was an anti-war protest that started during the Vietnam war. If someone you knew was killed in the war you threw old shoes over the power cables as a way of protesting to the government. When deaths started occurring in Iraq the protests started again.
2006-11-18 15:05:45 · answer #2 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
as a former elect. engineer i can say that there is no technical reason to substantiate this insulator [footware] trying to induce an eddy current onto a parallel conductor...
b/c an insulator will never allow itself to accept an electron, pass a proton out of orbit...
if the footware were pasta like and belonged to a giant and a tsunami passed over them...maybe the giant shoes would be close enough for their tips to accept an arc/spark from ground to start electron flow...
non technical in North America there are many cases of footware mania, and b/c when one of us sees another jump off a bridge, we follow b/c its what our parents disapprove of
:. when we see hanging sneakers we must prove to the americas that we too can do it
we need to keep ahead of the game
2006-11-18 14:55:06 · answer #3 · answered by tutorisland 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I heard not too long ago from someone who shall remain nameless that it is a sign to drug dealers that there is "bizness" to be had in the area
Sneakers on Power Lines
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/factoids/a/sneakers.htm
2006-11-18 14:42:39 · answer #4 · answered by kimandchris2 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i am american. it don't really know what it means. u will only see shoes on cables in ghetto neiborhoods of kind of poor neighborhoods like some areas of san fransisco
2006-11-18 16:16:23 · answer #5 · answered by V 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
its a joke they do it to show that they were able to throw them up and over and it worked not shoes but they use sneakers
2006-11-18 15:08:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
well some kids are idiots and just do it but i do think it did have to do when someone was killed you threw their shoes up there
2006-11-18 14:47:21 · answer #7 · answered by BLEHH 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i have seen it here too, i just thought it was kids who stole some poor other kid's shoes and put them where he obviously couldn't get them
2006-11-18 14:57:17 · answer #8 · answered by ciaragw 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Means they are selling drugs at that house.
2006-11-18 14:42:17 · answer #9 · answered by Hung N 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I've heard that as well...I think it means there has been a murder...or gang related death.
2006-11-18 14:42:42 · answer #10 · answered by hma85 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋