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12-06-2011, 10:14 PM
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Evening all,
I was chatting to a mate tonight and the topic came up that "when there are shoes on powerlines, it means there is a drug dealer there/nearby." Ive heard this being said many many times before. Sounds like morons playing stupid buggers to me. Any truth behind it? Must have come from somwhere..?
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12-06-2011, 10:32 PM
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There's a few urban myths about what it means.
Drug dealer, murder nearby, marking gang turf, etc. Personally I believe the one that says it means some poor bugger just got beat up and had his shoes thrown up there so that he'd have to walk home barefoot. |
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12-06-2011, 11:01 PM
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Yep have heard that as well, there is always a few pairs of shoes hanging over the power lines at the skate park down the road, and around the corner just after a causeway on the creek, seems an unlikely place to make drug deals.
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12-06-2011, 11:08 PM
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Always wondered this myself, here's abit of a read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_to...shoefiti.22.29 |
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12-06-2011, 11:08 PM
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meant to mean so in america in days gone by. now its just aussie rats thinking they are in the ghetto.
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12-06-2011, 11:09 PM
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When I moved into my place, within a couple of days someone had thrown a pair of sneakers in the power line out front.
My brand new neighbour, with whom my only discussion was about the fact that I worked from home and my wife would be moving in soon, approached me about them. She was obviously "feeling me out" as some young guy turned up in a new black GT, moved into a large house all by himself, said he worked from home, had some story about why he was there all alone and then the shoes appeared. I broke out a stick of conduit and removed them straight away. All my googling could tell me was a hundred different theories behind what it might mean. All I knew was I didn't need to make a name for myself before I even started. |
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12-06-2011, 11:45 PM
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I reckon it's a myth. Round my area, I've seen shoes on the power lines. The shoes are small. Considering I haven't seen any midgets around my area and plenty of kids, I'll lay money on kids shoes. So that'll dispell a turf marking theory for the drug lords.
Then you can add in, 30+ years ago, when was a kid, we used to do stupid things like that too.
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12-06-2011, 11:45 PM
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This is not a new phenomenon, it's been going on for yonks.
My understanding is it's kids trying to arc out the power lines and cause a blackout.
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12-06-2011, 11:46 PM
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I know on one particular street, the shoes on the power lines indicated that the occupant was 'easy', if one catches my drift
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12-06-2011, 11:53 PM
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This is something I haven't noticed for a long time. There's a skate park in Thornlands along the main road to Victoria Point and there has always been shoes hanging on the wires there.
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12-06-2011, 11:56 PM
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13-06-2011, 12:00 AM
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13-06-2011, 12:02 AM
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as a power line worker we find all kinds of things on the wires.
personally i think most of the shoes would be thrown up there by kids so that their "mates / victims" would have to walk home with no shoes and buy new ones.
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13-06-2011, 12:22 AM
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This has been going on for years! When we were kids we used to throw them up on the power lines...just to see if we could. My brother lost so many shoes
I have heard the rumours it now stands for something else, a bit like the old stories if a house has a red front door, it is a house of ill repute (for want of a better discription) and yet some newer houses are now made with red front doors. Every generation has it's own meanings to things...I just laugh whenever I see shoes tied up and thrown over power lines...reminds me of how mad we made my older brother...
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13-06-2011, 12:28 AM
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playing in my big shed
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 they still do
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13-06-2011, 12:29 AM
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13-06-2011, 12:32 AM
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We also use to throw these things we had called - Click clacks - if I remember correctly ( I am old ya know
) up onto power lines.It was a "toy" that was basically two pool balls connected by rope with a plastic tab and you would bounce the two balls against each other. They were great when you got them to "click and clack" but when they hit your wrist...OH BOY!! I can understand why they banned them! I think at one stage there was about 10 of those things on the power lines out front of our house! They are worth a fortune now...Who would have guessed it.
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13-06-2011, 01:07 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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the shoes for drugs thing at least around here is true.
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13-06-2011, 07:21 AM
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Never heard a reason behind shoes on power lines before. We used to hang a pair of sneakers (Adidas Romes!) in the trees above our campsite at Bathurst in the 80s, but that was only to mark the location of our BBQ plate that was buried in the ground underneath. Burying it saved hauling it 1,000km home only to have it sit in the shed for 12 months and then do the trip again. It was a heavy sucker!
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13-06-2011, 07:50 AM
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The kids at the skate park hust throw their old shoes up for fun
. or bike chains for the same reason, thats just what happens in my area anyway
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13-06-2011, 07:57 AM
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Maybe those types that the shoes are supposed to make us aware of are all now living in those new estates that have underground power lines
Funny thing is, up here its not far from the truth.... |
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13-06-2011, 08:01 AM
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Around here it's all the backpackers , Usually when they are moving on they will throw their old shoes on the lines out the front of the hostel ,
Best I've done was to pull 32 pairs of the powerline out the front of one particular place. Weve also had mains burnt to the ground from kids and bike chains , Cost their parents a mint as the neighbours were fairly ****ed about having no power and were quick to direct us to the homes of those responsable. |
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13-06-2011, 10:35 AM
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We have no power lines where I live.... What does that mean?
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Not that old. I remember them.  (Not the correct name though) Or should I say, remember the pain from them hitting the wrist all the time or Mum and Dad screaming at me for waking them up, playing with them Like everything from those days. If only we knew they'd be worth a fortune these days, we wouldn't have thrown stuff like that out.
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13-06-2011, 10:38 AM
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Maybe all reading too much into this...without starting that thread again, was there any rational explanation behind bored kids lying down and being photographed??
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 And they have called them click clacks...so someone else remembers them as that too... 
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13-06-2011, 12:28 PM
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the main signal from drug dealers is them letting off fireworks. when they get new supplies they let off fireworks at key locations so customes know there are drugs available. I learned this when working in a rehab
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Shoe's on powerlines.
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