Sep06
Saturday Scavenger Photo Hunt – “String(s)”
Theme: String(s) | Next Week: Wild
These shoes hanging over Hawthorne Street in Portland, Oregon by their laces, (or strings) are a perfect example of shoe tossing (or shoe flinging).
Shoe tossing (or shoe flinging), the act of using shoes as improvised projectiles or 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. Shoe tossing has been observed in areas of the United States, Canada, Britain, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador and Ireland.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_tossing
Ed Kohler has been cataloging and researching shoe tossing since 2005 on his blog “Shoefiti.”
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I see this all the time here, but I’m really not sure what it’s supposed to mean!
Can’t say that I’ve ever heard of shoe tossing before! Odd how some people spend their time. At first glance I thought it was a photo of someone riding on the wire in a little chair thing. Then I got close to the screen and read your post. Dang contacts!
I didn’t know shoe tossing had history!!! I see this all the time in the neighborhood I work in.
I see this all the time, who knew? Love the colors of it as well.
I can’t believe there is an actual definition of shoe tossing or flinging as the case may be. Amazing. Great picture though.
Looks like a nice expensive pair of hiking boots someone just lost.
I always thought it meant that’s where drug dealers dealt their drugs LOL!