Ouch.

Does the little mermaid wear an algaebra?

lol

I wanna know why you see shoes hanging from power lines
 

Multiple reasons...The most common is explanation is that drugs are sold nearby (Crack, heroin...take your pick...it's advertising.)

Second is that someone has died there and that it's a memorial....

Third, somebody graduated from school....or military basic training

All are listed as possible wacky urban legends...as it happens in rural areas as well as in the cities.

drugs are sold nearby? Nearby being a relative word, I think that's pretty much everywhere. Interesting, though.

so strange . . a little netsurfing shows a lot of these reasons. But have you ever done it? or known someone who has flung shoes?

Hey, he was an exchange student in my high school, but he spelled it "Hoo Haas Flung Choo." He was a Chinese-Norwegian.

Apparently, there's a fashion for throwing them on trees too....

Shoe Trees

If something was miss-spelled in a dictionary how would we know?

well, if it has three "s"s in a row, you can be pretty sure it's misspelled.

We get shoes on top of bus shelters here (you can see them from the top of double deckers). Definitely those pesky kids.

My thing to ponder - when someone says, "Can I help you?" why is help the last thing you'll usually get?

Why is it that when someone finds something they've lost, and when asked about it, they'll say "It was in the last place I looked."?

In my high school, all the seniors in marching band would throw their (purchased uniform) shoes over a line in front of the school on the last day of classes. It's as good a tradition as any, it's not like they'd ever need those shoes again... The janitors always took them down within a day or two though.

i've totally done it. we all do it. everybody does it.

. . . even though they say you'll go blind . . .

I only threw a shoe once. Never again.

I was in the first year of school, so 4-5. We were going for a walk in the Convent garden when my teacher saw a shoe by the side of the bushes. It looked long abandoned, an old tramp's shoe. She threw it further into the bushes - this was in the days before recyling. Now something in my little anarchist soul rejoiced at this - shoes, which had to be cared for, not scuffed, which WERE EXPENSIVE could be thrown into bushes! You couldn't even do that with litter!

A few days later on the playing field, I found my chance. A whole pile of abandoned shoes! I took one at random and lobbed it over the hedge into the allotments beyond. It really flew. Sadly, they belonged to a group of older girls doing handstands nearby. I was completely unable to explain myself and fell back on a lie suggested by the girl whose shoe I had liberated, "Did an older girl tell you to do it?" I was still in trouble, but so genuinely baffled that they let me off lightly.

Sorry Catherine Gordon. I honestly didn't know it was wrong, but I did do it on purpose.