does it mean some1 died there or what?
2007-02-18 13:17:10 · 12 answers · asked by daniel l 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
LOL! Noooooooo! People leave flowers and candles at an area where someone died. The sneakers tied together and tossed over electrical wires are kids/teenage pranks. Sort of like toilet papering someone's house. It has no meaning - it's just a prank.
2007-02-18 13:21:28 · answer #1 · answered by f w 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Generally it means someone lost a fight and had their shoes taken from them and thrown up on the line as a form of disrespect. It is a way that some outsiders are harassed for being different, i.e., homosexual, different social calues, or just for being nerdy.
2007-02-25 11:19:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ROFL...it means someone played a joke on another kid. You snag the other guy's shoes and ties them together, then hurl them up to see if they can get caught on the powerlines. It's nothing mroe than that. Just a kid's game to pick on some unsuspecting individual.
2007-02-18 21:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by Gary D 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but I know that in the movie "Big Fish", there was this mystical town where everyone's shoes hung from an electrical wire. Everyone was barefoot! I think they said it was because their town was perfect & they had no reason to leave. (It's an absoluely AWESOME movie...please rent it!)
2007-02-24 02:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by gina 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't know about gang related, but on hway 50 past fallon nevada there is a tree in the middle of nowhere with hundreds of shoes on it, it's huge and like a little rest stop, i don't think there are any gangs out there.
2007-02-24 06:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It use to be a marking to tell you drugs were available on the street but times change. I'm sure it's been done as a prank as well as a mark to remember someones passing.
2007-02-18 21:27:17 · answer #6 · answered by cheekoh 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, its like to do with their memory. A new belief I heard was that hanging shoes represents that person was killed by a gang.
2007-02-18 21:20:01 · answer #7 · answered by ~carmie~ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have been told that it is like a sign that drugs are sold in that area. I don't know if it is true.
2007-02-18 21:30:28 · answer #8 · answered by icspots 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in the military it means ur finished w/ ur career or getting out.in the civilian world its prob. some gang bullshit
2007-02-26 15:42:35 · answer #9 · answered by tango3zulu 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means that it's Mardi Gras Day and a parade just went by.
2007-02-18 21:20:35 · answer #10 · answered by orange 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋