I’m not sure if its the same thing but centuries ago when I was a boy we used to do that at the end of the sneakers life just to see if we could get them to hang up there. It’s a very rewarding enterprise on the way to or from school and requires great eye hand shoe coordination.
Shoe flinging or “shoefiti” has a lot of urban legends associated with it — everything from drugs to gangs to murder. Like Dave says, I think it’s just a sport kids with too many shoes indulge in. Here’s a whole website dedicated to cool pictures of wires and trees full of shoes. http://www.shoefiti.com/
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I have always wondered how shoes get on the telephone wires and why nobody ever takes them down.
Good questions! The crack Watawa Life research team is hard at work sleuthing out the answers.
I’m not sure if its the same thing but centuries ago when I was a boy we used to do that at the end of the sneakers life just to see if we could get them to hang up there. It’s a very rewarding enterprise on the way to or from school and requires great eye hand shoe coordination.
Shoe flinging or “shoefiti” has a lot of urban legends associated with it — everything from drugs to gangs to murder. Like Dave says, I think it’s just a sport kids with too many shoes indulge in. Here’s a whole website dedicated to cool pictures of wires and trees full of shoes.
http://www.shoefiti.com/
Shoefiti – I like that. Good work secret agent XUP. Dave, your badge is in the mail.
Great processing!
I think I might try some Shoefiti myself with a recently retired pair of DMs.
DMs = Doc Martens?
Careful you don’t hurt yourself Ruhh.