Telephone Wire

what does it mean when there are a pair of shoes hanging from the telephone wire?

i’ve always wondered why there are so many pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone wires in my neighborhood

Here’s a good discussion of this from Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.asp

Then another Yahoo Answers question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070801225531AANgtpY

And finally, Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_tossing

Basically, it looks like there’s no one answer. The urban myth is that it means there’s a drug den nearby. There’s no proof of this. It could be anything. Read the links and enjoy.

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