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Shoe-tossing is the throwing of footwear, the reasons for which differ based on cultural context. A pair of laced shoes may be thrown across raised cables, such as telephone wires and power lines, or onto tree branches to create "shoe trees". [1] [2] In such contexts it may be known as shoefiti.
One of the most commonly believed reasons shoes are thrown over power lines is to signal the location of a crack house or prime drug dealing spot. Dangling shoes can also be the symbol of gang members claiming territory, especially when the shoes are hanging from power lines or telephone wires in an intersection.
19 cze 2024 · Shoes dangle from lines near rented student housing, and some have names of graduates and dates written on them. There’s likely no one motive for the shoe-tossing. It may, however, be in decline.
11 kwi 1999 · There's no one definitive answer as to why those shoes hang from telephone wires. Perhaps the answer lies within each of us, shoe-slinger and non-shoe-slinger alike.
A widely circulated belief is that shoes on power lines indicate gang territory or signal drug dealing locations. While this theory has gained traction in popular culture, law enforcement officials often dispute its validity, suggesting that the connection between shoes and gang activity is more myth than reality.
5 sie 2015 · From teenage mischief to possible drug markets, a search for the real reasons sneakers end up on power lines.
29 wrz 2024 · Along the lines of Demarco’s leading theory on why people throw shoes on power lines (mimicry), a dangling pair of shoes may signify nothing more than silliness—i.e., kids being kids, perhaps...
