http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/factoids/a/sneakers.htm
should have included this in my original post. looks
like another drug buying selling myth
"Another folk belief holds that teenage boys who've
just "scored" for the first time (i.e., lost their
virginity) heave an old pair of sneakers over a power
line to proclaim their conquest to the world. (Who
says teenage boys aren't romantic?)
Cecil Adams catalogued at least a dozen more theories
in a 1996 Straight Dope column, all of them very
interesting but none conclusive. The long and short of
it is that nobody seems to know the answer. Maybe
there is no answer; maybe sneakers hanging on power
lines don't have any particular meaning at all."
Mark Wilde
Windom Park
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