How tf do those shoes end up there????

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Beside busy roads and motorways ?
I can't worked it out....and there is usually just the one.

Car accidents

And bored children removing them from their feet and chucking them out of the window, I'd wager.

According to Spike Jones:

How They Get There:

More - I hadn't though of accidents.
Punt - They are usually adult shoes, boots or trainers.
Miss -Thanks I'll watch it now!

i also wonder the same when i see trainers strung over telephone wires....why??

highways usually clean up all debris after accidents....cant imagine they would leave the shoes of a deceased person or badly injured person laying there for all the world to see....

Recycling lorries that are over filled are the main cause of stray shoes.

i also wonder the same when i see trainers strung over telephone wires....why??

In America it's done to commemorate a murdered gang member i believe. Or to advertise the whereabouts of a crack house.

Round here it just means some little sod's tossed his mates PE shoes up there on the way home from school

We have a shoe tree at the local skatepark with about 50 pairs of shoes hanging off the branches by their laces

i also wonder the same when i see trainers strung over telephone wires....why??

fluffy I thought it had the same meaning here - drug den, not murderer.

I was told that shoes over the telephone wires indicated a fresh delivery at the drug den. Though I figured that had to be a load of tosh because for that to work, they'd have to remove the shoes once the drugs had all gone, surely? Advertising the (rough) location sounds more plausible.

And I live on a road with no telephone wires (new builds with telephone wired in underground). So how will users know where to go?

I am always asking my DH this question! I've read all your replies but I'm sticking to my conspiracy theory.

When I was 17 I put my work shoes on the roof of my car while I was loading it up with other stuff. I was heading to pick up my boyfriend and then we were going over to stay at a friend's house with a few others and I was going straight to work the next morning.

I arrived at my boyfriend's house, he clocked the shoes on the roof and DIDN'T THINK TO MENTION IT! 4 miles down the road he turned to me and said 'why are your shoes on the roof?' I laughed at first until i realised he was serious and stopped to check they were still there. We drove back to our village at snails pace and spotted on on the road which he got out and rescued. The other one was nowhere to be found.

The next day my mum called me at work and happened to casually mention that she found a shoe that looked like one of mine on the side of the road. She picked it up 'just in case'...

So since then, every time I spot a shoe on the side of the road I assume some poor soul has forgotten to check the roof before driving off.

Nothing to do with shoes but whilewilde reminded of my XH, he had visited his parents and his mum had made us a cottage pie, he put it on the roof of the car whilst getting the DC's in, he forgot about it and drove home. It was still on the bloody roof when he got home! she wasn't a very good cook