Re: Like a bird on a wire,

Posted by SLS on September 17, 2011, at 6:58:36

In reply to Like a bird on a wire,, posted by floatingbridge on September 16, 2011, at 22:02:14

> Except it is a pair of shoes laced together hanging from the wires strung between power poles.
>
> Today the question fully formed itself: why?
>
> Really. Is it like Mount Everest, because it's there? Do folks here in the US dream of the riding the pampas, slinging a bolas?
>
> I have never known anyone or seen anyone or even heard of
> anyone doing this.
>
> Yet there they are always there.
>
> Does this happen anywhere else in the world?

In some locales, this is a marker of drug dealers alerting patrons of their location.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_tossing

- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.

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