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OfflineConnoisseur

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Shoe Tossing
    #23549926 - 08/17/16 01:10 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Shoe tossing, the act of using shoes as projectiles or improvised weapons, is a constituent of a number of folk sports and practices. Today, it is commonly the act of throwing a pair of shoes onto telephone wires, powerlines, or other raised wires. A related practice is shoe tossing onto trees or fences.

Has anyone here ever done this? There are many different theories as to what this signifies.

A number of criminal explanations have been proposed as to why this is done. The foremost is bullying in which a bully steals a pair of shoes and puts them in a place where they are unlikely to be retrieved.[citation needed] Or sometimes it is done as a practical joke played on drunkards. A newsletter from the mayor of Los Angeles, California cites fears of many Los Angeles residents that "these shoes indicate sites at which drugs are sold or worse yet, gang turf", and that city and utility employees had launched a program to remove the shoes.

Other less criminal explanations have been ventured for the practice. In some cultures, shoes are flung to commemorate the end of a school year, or a forthcoming marriage as part of a rite of passage. It has been suggested that the custom may have originated with members of the military, who are said to have thrown military boots, often painted orange or some other conspicuous color, at overhead wires as a part of a rite of passage upon completing basic training or on leaving the service. In the 1997 film, Wag the Dog, shoe tossing features as an allegedly spontaneous cultural manifestation of tribute to Sgt. William Schumann, played by Woody Harrelson, who has purportedly been “shot down behind enemy lines” in Albania.

Others simply say that shoe flinging is a way to get rid of shoes that are no longer wanted, are uncomfortable, or do not fit.[verification needed] It may also be another manifestation of the human instinct to leave their mark on, and decorate, their surroundings.

In some neighborhoods, shoes tied together and hanging from power lines or tree branches signify that someone has died. The shoes belong to the dead person. The reason they are hanging, legend has it, is that when the dead person's spirit returns, it will walk that high above the ground, that much closer to heaven. Another superstition holds that the tossing of shoes over the power lines outside of a house is a way to keep the property safe from ghosts. Yet another legend suggests that shoes hanging from telephone wires signal someone leaving the neighborhood onto bigger and better things.

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Re: Shoe Tossing [Re: Connoisseur]
    #23549931 - 08/17/16 01:13 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I remember some Iraqi guy tried to throw his shoes at George W. Bush, who had some pretty impressive reflexes when he ducked behind his podium.  It's a huge insult in the middle east, and probably elsewhere, to expose the bottom of your shoe at somebody, much less throw it at them.

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Re: Shoe Tossing [Re: idiotek]
    #23549949 - 08/17/16 01:18 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

yep that was a classic moment in shoe tossing history

one of my all time favorites actually

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Re: Shoe Tossing [Re: Connoisseur]
    #23549962 - 08/17/16 01:22 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

As children in my friends back garden, we used to do a 'shoe comp', whereby we would build up momentum swinging back and forth on his swing set and when we deemed the momentum sufficient, our pre-loosened shoes would be flung as far as the momentum would take them.

Getting the shoe over the wall and into the neighbours garden was generally the goal and I guess the equivalent to a home run.

Good times.

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Re: Shoe Tossing [Re: LobsterSauce]
    #23549988 - 08/17/16 01:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Crooked Hillary also had a shoe thrown at her as well



Shes so stupid she asked if it was a bat or circ de sulay

Meet your next president

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Re: Shoe Tossing [Re: Connoisseur]
    #23551777 - 08/17/16 11:27 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I have an old pair of work boots I threw way up a tree about 5 years ago. Keep expecting them to fall in winter storms or the laces rot out. Still there last I checked.

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Re: Shoe Tossing [Re: idiotek]
    #23555920 - 08/19/16 05:19 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

idiotek said:
I remember some Iraqi guy tried to throw his shoes at George W. Bush, who had some pretty impressive reflexes when he ducked behind his podium.  It's a huge insult in the middle east, and probably elsewhere, to expose the bottom of your shoe at somebody, much less throw it at them.






:rofl:

lmao at W smiling immediately after dodging it


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Re: Shoe Tossing [Re: Niffla]
    #23556493 - 08/19/16 10:57 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Roflmao. That mischievous smirk... what a dodger.

Shoes up on telephone wires always have a nostalgic and secretive look to me, as if the person who threw them was sending out a cryptic message about that moment, an act of freedom and memory. Shoes are filled with memories, unlike our other clothes, the average person tends to wear the same shoes every day and they wear down with the history of everywhere we've gone. Then someone throws them up for the world to see and it's like putting a flag at the top of a mountain after climbing it.

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Re: Shoe Tossing [Re: Chakra Shock]
    #23556506 - 08/19/16 11:02 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Shoes over powerlines sometimes signify a trap house in the hood.

Source: Lived 1 year in the hood


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