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Like a shoe on a wire

  • 16th Nov, 2007 at 9:42 PM
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Near where I work, I have noticed several times shoes hanging on a wire. They seem to disappear and re appear from time to time. I finally managed to took a picture to show you this strange thing (please, have a look a the picture below, please, thanks). As all the shoes seem to be white, I thought it was a trick used by secondary school kids not to have to attend sport lessons.

I talked to an Irish guy, and it seems to be a known phenomenon all over Dublin, probably an urban legend. It occurs in flats neighborhoods and it is supposed to mean that drug can be sold or bought in the area.

shoes haned on a wire

It is obviously a legend. What really puzzled me is how can anyone take these shoes off the wire? And what can be the real reason why they end up hanged up there ? If anyone as a good explaination for that, he/she would be welcomed.

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[info]cartographer wrote:
18th Nov, 2007 12:29 (UTC)
Wikipedia agrees with you that the drugs thing is probably an urban legend, but it doesn't really know why either.

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

I'm so impressed by the Show Trees. I'd never heard of them before.
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