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sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
What is the significance of this? I looked online and saw different reasons, one of which meant you could buy drugs nearby. Then I read it may be a turf thing.
I have a pair dangling from a line near my house and it looks so trashy to me.
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I havent seen that in so long...BUT i always hated it too!!
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| Posted 4/14/12 4:08 PM |
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shadows
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I always wondered what the significance of it was. I assumed it was just a kid thing, like graffiti or smashing mailboxes...interesting. I hate how it looks though.
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| Posted 4/14/12 4:14 PM |
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AngnShaun
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I never knew there was a reason I just thought it was because some people are assholes and like to damage othere peoples property.
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| Posted 4/14/12 4:22 PM |
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Arieschick29
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I always thought it meant a gang member died and they hung those as tribute... Even growing up in Brooklyn, I guess I really dont know.
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Xelindrya
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
cause its hard to do and risky to do in the middle of a street.. you are one bad mo-fo if you can pull it off.. bragging rights forever
At least that's how we in ghetto land looked at it. Gangs were everywhere if you look hard enough. Regardless of location. Drugs were huge but not as much as sold to the richer sides of town. If shoes on a line just meant crime per se, then it would literally be a high flying flag. no way it would mean those things.
Its vandalism at its core. Stupid and pointless.
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JEKS1219
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
When we were young, my parents always told us it was the keep the electricity running...
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| Posted 4/14/12 6:21 PM |
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Ookpik
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
It's such a 70's thing to do! Every time I see it, I feel like it's 1977 
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Phyl
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
Drugs sold in the area
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drpepper318
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
Posted by Phyl
Drugs sold in the area
yes that's what I've always heard.
I hate how it looks!
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| Posted 4/14/12 7:03 PM |
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I remember when I was in preschool, a mom gave the teachers a pair of her son's old shoes and asked for them to throw it up on the line.... We all walked with our little loops on a rope to go do it.
That was in the 70's in manhattan... In the 60's on the east side....
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miabella
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
People used to trow them up on the corners where drugs were sold....so i have heard anyway. I don't think they do it anymore ...i think if there are any up there its just kids being kids now a days.
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| Posted 4/14/12 8:42 PM |
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LSP2005
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I thought it meant that someone had passed away. Those were the person's last pair of shoes....
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
Posted by Arieschick29
I always thought it meant a gang member died and they hung those as tribute... Even growing up in Brooklyn, I guess I really dont know.
That's what I always heard as well.
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| Posted 4/14/12 8:57 PM |
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
Posted by Ookpik
It's such a 70's thing to do! Every time I see it, I feel like it's 1977
Lol, that's exactly how I feel! We must be of a similar age--I remember being a little kid and seeing this all over my area. I've seen it occasionally here and there through the years and have even seen flat cardboard "sneakers" hanging up there recently!
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| Posted 4/14/12 8:59 PM |
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My dh did it forever. Totally not a drug thing, he said people do it to remember their sneakers. Kicks. Lol. He did it until we moved to our new house. He's from Brooklyn. Maybe it's a city thing.
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| Posted 4/14/12 9:10 PM |
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WenRC
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I remember seing them when I was a kid.
Someone told me it was done when a kid got his @$$ kicked they threw his sneakers up there.
I'm more inclined to believe the drug thing or the memorial.
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| Posted 4/14/12 9:34 PM |
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Ayne11
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I was always under the impression it had to do with drugs being sold in the neighborhood.
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| Posted 4/14/12 10:12 PM |
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MaMaTeenie
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I don't think its just a city thing. I have lived on long island my whole life and have seen them more times that I can remember. Never knew they meant anything more than some idiot kid throwing their shoes up on the wire. There is currently a pair right above the gate of my sons elementary school.....I really hope it doesn't mean there are drugs for sale nearby.
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| Posted 4/14/12 10:38 PM |
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
Drugs being sold there.....
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| Posted 4/14/12 10:50 PM |
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fabrichick
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I thought it was a sign for gang turf
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| Posted 4/14/12 10:53 PM |
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
i saw it all the time growing up in brooklyn and just saw it by my MIL's house in bensonhurst recently.
i never knew why..just thought it was kids being dumb.
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| Posted 4/14/12 11:00 PM |
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BeachGal
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
Posted by Ookpik
It's such a 70's thing to do! Every time I see it, I feel like it's 1977
It reminds me of the 80's LOL!
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
Posted by JEKS1219
When we were young, my parents always told us it was the keep the electricity running...
Ha! So did my mom! Weird!
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| Posted 4/14/12 11:25 PM |
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Re: sneakers hanging from neighborhood power lines?
I've always heard it's drug related.
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