What is the significance of throwing shoes over an power line?

Question

I've always wondered this. Lol.

Answer 1

I think you're supposed to do it to someone else's shoes.

Answer 2

The origins are gang-related, but nowadays goofballs take their old shoes and stand below high-voltage lines and throw shoes up, over and over and over, until they stick. It's just goofy, like tagging was gang-related at first, but now is just plain old vandalism.

Answer 3

My friend did that to her ex.

Funny funny.

Answer 4

Back in the day it used to represent that somebody had died in a spot around that power line. Shoes over a power line are much harder to remove than a cross or flowers. Now days I believe people just have nothing better to do with themselves then throw old shoes over power lines.

Answer 5

It means "Welcome to the Hood"

Answer 6

Where I live, a local cop told me it means that is an area to buy drugs.  I try to avoid those areas ever since he told me that.

Answer 7

Drug dealers put it up to let people know where they can buy.

Answer 8

When my dad died in a motorcycle accident some of his friends took a pair of his boots and did that- I believe that the owner of the shoes is deceased