Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > It is an interesting gallery, and I enjoyed all the potographs. > > I thought of Toralf's shot of the shoes on the wire when I saw this > article in our Sunday newspaper: > > http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1189917390313570.xml&coll=1 > > Snopes has also looked into the practice of throwing shoes over > telephone wires, and concluded there is no single exlanation for the > practice: > > http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.asp > Interesting... So maybe I live in Gangland. Or a drug-infested area. Although the thought of aircraft flying at this altitude is perhaps the scariest of all...
I'm more inclined to assume that the shoes were put there by other people who had read articles like this, however. But at the same time, I can't quite shake the thought that this is some sort of memorial for a person who died, which had also entered my mind earlier ;-( Another peculiarity of "my" shoes is that they were painted green - in at least two of the cases where I've seen this. Most of the paint has probably worn off in the picture posted, but I think you can see some traces of it. - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
