What does it mean when someone throws shoes over a telephone line?

i think it means they killed someone?
I have no idea to be honest lol

I know it means somebody is short a pair of shoes.

Sometimes gangs use it to mark territory

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I think it’s when someone from that hood had died

I think the gang thing is a myth. Tradition and teenagers are my answer.

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I remember doing it as a kid and it had no significance other than we could laugh when we saw a pair of sneakers that no one could get down. It was a kind of tag. There’s no end to what kids will do to make a mess. It was like breaking windows. No reason other than to get away with it…I was so bad.

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Here are some past answers, if you’re interested.

What else are you going to do with a pair of old ratty shoes? Seems throwing them over a power line is one of the more fun things you can do with an old pair of shoes. I don’t believe the “gang territory” theory at all.

It is my understanding that it means drugs are sold in the area.

Where I come from (and it seems to be particular to my age group) they’re thrown over phone lines after somebody lost their virginity in a near location.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.asp <<< other possibilities.

I remember my mom always used to get really upset when she’d see this (and probably still does). She’d say, “That is so terrible. How awful. Shoes are expensive.” Feeling sorry for the shoeless child.

My son did this with a pair of his Converse high-tops when he was in middle school. He came home somewhat shame-faced. It was a perfect example of kids’ not thinking ahead more than a minute. The guys were all trying to see who could do it first, and he won, and his prize was that he got to walk home barefoot and tell his mother that he’d lost his shoes.

I used to live in Yonkers, NY on a street where a pair of shoes decorated most traverse power lines. It wasn’t the safest place I’ve ever lived, but I never felt unsafe there either. The teenagers were always nice to me and my toddler son. There were many men around in the morning wearing watch caps and walking dogs bred for viciousness. Once a Great Dane escaped his leash and a guy ran up, scooped up my son—and me, more or less—and pushed us both inside an unlocked car until he got the dog leashed and muzzled.
To me, the shoes signified a neighborhood feeling. If they marked a gang members’ death, I didn’t know it. Volunteer fire members’ deaths (as frequent from drunk driving as fire fighting) were remembered with wreaths and black bunting above the firetruck garage.