I've heard a couple of things, but I wonder what you've heard. I was watching this thing on Snoop Dogg earlier today and they were driving through Long Beach and there was a pair of shoes thrown over a power line, and the camera zoomed in on them for a couple of seconds, like it was significant. So what's the significance?
My boyfriend says that back in Brooklyn there was a killer who used to throw his victims shoes over power-lines after he killed them.
In my small town it doesn't mean anything except a bully took your shoes off and threw them up there.
I've seen shoes thrown up in all areas, all over the place so its not always in the ghetto, and I used to do plenty of drugs and never heard about the "shoe sign". Don't you think the cops would be on that, checking houses around where the shoes were? They don't need a search warrant to come inside anymore because of 9/11.
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2008 Dec 23
drug zone, and the color of the shoes represent the type drugs. don't ask what color + what drug cause i dont know
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2008 Dec 23
I'm not sure if there is any significance…. when i was a kid it was the thing to do to rebel and upset your parents….. today it's more like blowing up people's mailboxs or graffiti….
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2008 Dec 23
the type of shoes hanging describes the neighborhood…. I dunno what all the shoes represent…….. I just heard that a few days ago…………..
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2008 Dec 23
it means your not getting your shoes back. it's just something bullies pull, like stealing lunch money and what not.
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2008 Dec 23
It means: 'drugs for sale right here'.
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2008 Dec 23
Drug area… not good lol
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2008 Dec 23
It means the person wearing them finally fell out.
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2008 Dec 23
It may have to do with drugs, but at the end of the day, if someone (or you) are focused on that, they're essentially lost in life.
It is an interesting question, I'll grant you that.
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2008 Dec 23
It means they have a hit out on that person and they will probably die
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2008 Dec 23
Where I come from that means you can find someone around there to sell you drugs.
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2008 Dec 23
Yo vato, gang tagging y drogas! It's been going on for a LONG time now.
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2008 Dec 23
that you ever get them down! kinda cool
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2008 Dec 23
that someone is barefoot
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2008 Dec 23
Nowadays it means drugs for sale here. Years ago, in some military towns, soldiers who were getting out of the service would throw their old combat boots over the line to celebrate.
My how the times have changed.
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2008 Dec 23
It means somebody is a spoiled brat with no respect for shoes or money. If you ever spent your first paycheck ever on a pair of shoes like me they take on a whole new respect to you.
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2008 Dec 23
honestly it was one of the worst ways of being punk-ed. In those days bullies would beat you up and take your shoes off and throw them over the power lines because when you came home with no shoes you usually got your butt whipped again!
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2008 Dec 23
Can mean different things at different times
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2008 Dec 23
It means you can get drugs in that area
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2008 Dec 23
it means you have now entered the GHETTO! and that someone is running around barefoot…
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2008 Dec 23
drugs.
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2008 Dec 23
Where I come from it means someone has stopped walking for good, and therefore needs shoes no more.
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2008 Dec 23
My boyfriend says that back in Brooklyn there was a killer who used to throw his victims shoes over power-lines after he killed them.
In my small town it doesn't mean anything except a bully took your shoes off and threw them up there.
I've seen shoes thrown up in all areas, all over the place so its not always in the ghetto, and I used to do plenty of drugs and never heard about the "shoe sign". Don't you think the cops would be on that, checking houses around where the shoes were? They don't need a search warrant to come inside anymore because of 9/11.
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