>> Snopes has also looked into the practice of throwing shoes over >> telephone wires, and concluded there is no single exlanation for the >> practice:
Around here, I've noticed wire-hung sneakers around schools & always assumed it was done be kids @ the end of the school year. Kenneth Waller http://tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toralf Lund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: September PUG -- Toralf's shoes > Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >> It is an interesting gallery, and I enjoyed all the potographs. >> >> I thought of Toralf's shot of the shoes on the wire when I saw this >> article in our Sunday newspaper: >> >> http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1189917390313570.xml&coll=1 >> >> Snopes has also looked into the practice of throwing shoes over >> telephone wires, and concluded there is no single exlanation for the >> practice: >> >> http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.asp >> > Interesting... So maybe I live in Gangland. Or a drug-infested area. > Although the thought of aircraft flying at this altitude is perhaps the > scariest of all... > > I'm more inclined to assume that the shoes were put there by other > people who had read articles like this, however. But at the same time, I > can't quite shake the thought that this is some sort of memorial for a > person who died, which had also entered my mind earlier ;-( > > Another peculiarity of "my" shoes is that they were painted green - in > at least two of the cases where I've seen this. Most of the paint has > probably worn off in the picture posted, but I think you can see some > traces of it. > > - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
