I've heard in the past that shoes hanging from a powerline means that you can buy drugs in the area. But according to
this article, in which a utility worker is interviewed, there are even more secret codes:
"The tennis shoes hanging up there mark drug areas," the worker says. "It's a sign to those who are 'in the know' that drugs are available for sale in that neighborhood." He goes on to explain the alleged meaning of yoyos and deflated helium balloons. "That meaning is a lot darker," he says. "Yoyos mean that sex is for sale in the area, and if a balloon is tangled in with the yoyos, that means both sex and drugs are for sale." He explains that the color of the yoyo indicates the ethnicity of the person offering sex.
So what are you supposed to do if you see one of these codes? Go up to the nearest person and say, 'Hey, I saw the yoyo, if you know what I mean?' Maybe objects hanging from power lines simply mean that kids have thrown things up there to be obnoxious.
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But I'm getting off topic. (ray bradbury)
However, I do know for a fact that in some cases it is used to mark gang turf and drug areas...
It's not always like that, and it's not the same in all places...
but in Evansville, there was a gang on the north side that wore green colors, and sold marijuana (green), and when they would push into newer neighborhoods they would throw up green tennis shoes to mark that they were pushing dope into that neighborhood, kind of marking it...
and down here
I have noticed that i keep seeing a pair of shoes and it will get cut down, and another pair goes up, and its not always in the exact same spot, there will be a pair up, and then when it gets cut down, or the cops start getting heavy in that area, one block south or north the shoes will be hanging, and then when the cops start cruising that street more, a pair of shoes will show up a couple streets back towards where they were before
and talked to a guy who sold drugs who said that he would move from block to block sort of playing run around with police
so im thinking maybe the shoes were similar to that and had to do with drugs or prostitution because both are very present in that area
haha.
fun.
we were just bored.
how much is the fine in australia?
For obvious reasons, this was usually done in the dead of night on the soldier's last day of active duty.