What do shoes on power lines mean

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It was about , and I was wearing my gym shoes around my neck tied together by the laces. A friend of mine, who was perhaps not the best friend in the world, liked to taunt me to some extent. And he was throwing my shoes up in the air pretending, I think, that he was going to throw them over the wire across the street. But then he succeeded. And there they hung.

Eventually, some time later that month, the shoestring broke and I got my shoes back. The wager theory is common across the Internet, too. I lost a bet and my buddies throw my shoes up there.

So, pretty much what they did was climb it — a pole — and threw it up there. Other times we threw it from the street until they got caught. I did it once because I survived soccer camp. It was something my parents forced and I ended up throwing it up there.

Those were just regular Nike cleats. Shoes on a wire. A pair of shoes tied together and hanging from power lines or tree branches signifies that someone beloved is on drugs specially marijuana and there is no way back from there for that person. The shoes belong to said person. The reason they are hanging is that the shoes are high above the ground, symbolizing the state of the person, who is said to be in a permanent condition of submission known as " high af ".

Some people state that when the individual's spirit returns, he an his family will walk that much closer to heaven. The then-mayor, James Hahn, addressed the residents, noting that they would no longer tolerate shoes hanging from power lines. But not everyone thinks that shoe hanging is associated with drugs.

Some believe that the shoes are hung in memory of someone that passed on. One social worker I interacted with claimed that the belief of shoes indicating drugs is an urban myth. Further, he explained that as a kid, he tossed shoes over power lines on several occasions, which explains why he was very skeptical about the drug theory.

He also pointed out that no drug dealer in their right mind would advertise that they were selling drugs in that manner as it would set them up to be arrested.

A friend of mine told me he was a victim. When he lost, his buddies took his shoes and threw them at the power line. This theory resonates with many since I have come across several articles of people claiming their friends threw their shoes after losing a bet. Sometimes the shoes mistakenly get caught on the power lines. This explanation makes a lot of sense since we all know how silly kids can be. They would do anything that they find captivating at the moment. You may have guessed that some of the shoes are merely and the owners discard them by throwing them over power lines.

This theory touches on gang activity and violence. Several inmates in state prisons have alleged that they would toss shoes up power lines back in the day to inform other crews or gangs that a particular crew ran that block. In Kansas City, crews used the shoes to mark their territories in the s. The shoes were a message and warning to others. This theory is also quite common.