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"Shoe flinging or "shoefiti" is the American and Canadian practice of throwing shoes whose shoelaces have been tied together so that they hang from overhead wires such as power lines or telephone cables. The shoes are tied together by their laces, and the assembly is apparently then thrown at the wires as a sort of bolas. This practice plays a widespread, though mysterious, role in adolescent folklore in the United States. Shoe flinging has also been reported in Australia, Sweden and Norway."





Man kan inte exakt säga varför folk slänger upp sina gamla sneakers på elledningar, men efter lite googlande så hittade jag ett par tänkbara alternativ:


* "I've heard tennis shoes hanging over a power line meant you could buy crack there. "

* "It's a time-honored tradition to throw your sneakers over the power lines on the last day of school. "

* "When I was in the military and guys were getting ready to get out and go back to a "regular" life they would take their combat boots and paint them up all funky before tying the laces together and throwing them over a wire. "

* "Used to be a gang sign--sneakers hanging over telephone or electrical wires were to designate gang turf. "




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