Shoes on Power Lines
**Secret Revealed**
Tying shoes together by their laces and throwing them onto overhead lines is known as “shoefiti” (shoe + graffiti). Shoefiti started in the United States and spread throughout the world. There is no single reason why people do this, there are many reasons.
When sneakers are festooned on power lines in rough neighborhoods, the conclusion for their presence is often crime related. Some believe they mark crack houses where you can get your fix or some free shoes via ladder. Others say they are shoes that belong to (or hang in memory of) a murder victim. Some say they are for marking gang turf, but Tucson Arizona police have denied that and flagged the turf marker idea as myth.
They did mention that many shoes are removed each week, since they are unsightly and can cause damage to the lines.
They also said that the volume of shoes increases during the summer break from school. A couple of stories have been told that may support this. One is that of tradition, shoes are thrown on power lines to celebrate the last day of school or graduation. Teenage boys have also been said to do this when they lose their virginity.
Perhaps the oldest story about the origin of shoefiti claims it was tradition for soldiers to hang their boots on the power lines at base when they completed basic training, went home on leave or left the service entirely.
In some movies, it’s the school bully who steals your shoes and throws them onto the lines. There are also stories of kids retiring their own shoes when they get a new pair.
Chances are good that the people who are doing it now have no idea why their predecessors did it.
Some people may think it’s a harmless tradition, but the shoes can disrupt utility services by adding weight to the lines which causes them to sag and potentially touch other lines or trees, which could also result in fire.
If you want to remove shoes from the lines, because you want your kicks back or you just want to clear the eyesore, you should call the utility company to do it — a few Darwin Award candidates have earned their nomination trying to DIY their shoes back.
Chad Upton is the editor-in-chief of Broken Secrets and an official Yahoo Answers contributor.
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I wondered about this practice and thought about it recently. I had assumed the reason for doing it was just to see if one was able to throw something like this onto a horizontal wire, and shoes tied together are good to use. Thanks for the information. I love learning stuff.
I remember seeing boots on a wire when I was in the Army. The end-of-service explanation sounds feasible.
And near where I live, just north of Kalkaska, MI, there was a tree by the side of US-131 that was festooned for years with shoes and boots of all possible descriptions. There was even a pair of fishing waders at one point. I believe that the property owner wound up cutting that tree down.
People who do this is just stupid….
When they do it here in VA it signifies someone was killed.
Around here, shoes on the power lines definitely means that drugs can be obtained in that location.
Law enforcement officers are instructed to pay special attention in areas where shoes are found on the lines.
SW Ohio.
The article is just wrong. It shouldn’t talk about urban life if it’s never lived it. Shoes go on the wire because kids are mean to each other, it’s as simple as that.
In the city, bullies do that. Kids who want new shoes (popular new shoes just coming out) will throw their old ones up and tell Mom they were stolen or bullied.
Great ! I didn’t know it before ! I saw one hanging on the roof of ‘Murray Hill Station, Queens” near my home ! And i wondered and was confused ! Now i know that it is one of the ”Shoefitty”
Thanks for the great share . That’s why I like Yahoo! Answer 
In our community, the local Police Department’s official stance, is that they ARE in reference to ‘Drug Dealing’ and have asked that sightings of said shoes be reported at once, the Department, then, contacts “Public Works”
i heard that in the ghetto it means that drug dealers reside there, its a way to show where they are and where you can find drugs
Shoes on the power line means the house in front of it is a crack house (A place that sells drugs).
I can remember seeing this on telephone lines in the UK in the 60′s. It wasn’t a sign of anything back then other than “beware the school bully”.
The main reason people threw boots on power lines is because it was a way of snitches to inform police on where the drug dealers lived….so the snitches would throw there shoes on the power lines that where in front of the drug dealers house
I had always heard that it was a sign for a place where you could buy drugs
/:(
it can mean / use to mean there is a drug house near by
It’s all to do with the bully story, 90% anyway. It’s the humilation, after you put the whoop on someone, you make them walk home barefoot, and nothing mommy can do about it. Mommy can come to baby’s aid and tell the principal, the dean, or maybe break it up herself, nope she can’t get her sweet baby’s shoes off the power line
Around here it was understood that shoes over a wire a tribute to a dead friend. In a short alleyway in the next block, twice a year someone changes the footware hanging from low wires. Some kind of trainers/runners for Spring & Summer and boots for Autumn and Winter. This has been going on for at least 5 years.
Pretty touching, if you ask me.
This is an easy one. Although there are many possible resons for this to happen, Historicly it has everything to do with gangs and territory. The police referesend above are wrong. police will tell you anything to “keep the peace” and not cause panic.
Usally shoes seen on wires mark the relative spot where someone was “jumped” by a gang, or they are the shoes of whoever just lost a fight. Usually thrown up there by the victor of the fight. That is, if the person who lost the fight is unconsious or semiconcious. I.E. – there not gonna let the shoes be taken if they can help it at all.
So there, that’s the ugly truth behind it all. Also, there are alot more shoes in city areas than in suburban areas. City people are tough, theres more crime more gangs and more street fighting.
Oh and there’s usually a higher consentration of powere lines to go along with the higher consentration of people. But really I am very surprised that this isn’t public knowledge by now, I mean it has been going on since power lines went up! (sorry for bad spelling)
where i’m from if you see that infront of a house, there drug dealers.
In my neighborhood they throw the shoes over the power lines of the houses that have known drug dealers or criminals.Its quite an expensive area but some dealers can afford to buy the houses there
You see this a lot in poor parts of the UK. I’ve always been told that they commemorate teenagers who have died and haven’t received media exposure or even a proper funeral.
Im not 100% certain but here where I am at, it means that house is selling drugs.. Like I said im not posotive but thats what I have always heard.
This means there’s a gang operating in the area, everyone knows that.
Shoes on power lines normally means that a person that lives in that neighborhood has a friend or a loveone that has died/killed. On the other hand, it could just be some people being mean and throwing people shoes up there.
The Chi town burb where I grew up in the ’50′s it was the class bully and buddies that stole your tied together “gym shoes”. Their superiority was proven if they got them over the power line on their first try.
From what I know, shoes up on the power-line either means that someone has gone away and moved somewhere or that someone has passed away.
It happened to my dad in south memphis when he was a kid. He tells me now ppl didn’t like him that much :/ but also said it was so you got in trouble for losing your good shoes! (my grandmama would whoop him like whooping chough when she found out! :c poor daddy…)
I used to see this quite frequently when I was a little girl growing up; there wasn’t any meaning attached to it or at least the adults I questioned did not know why…now with the article, I kinda understand why it was done.
I worked as a phoneman for four years in the late 70′s and early 80′s, and going from one end of the ghetto to the other 10/6/365 during the days of The Family while Gary and Chitown exchanged the murder capitol title every other year for eight years and I never heard anything remotely like that. Do you really think with all the extra heat on them already, they’re going to put out for sale signs? LOL. I’m white and never so much had a bad word with the public, but that didn’t mean I had ear plugs in all day.LOL. Believe me, it may go down like that where you’re at today, but The Family was too smart and sophisticated. Cheers…
Are the people who do it called shoefitiers (shoe-feet-airs)?
People in the military do it with their boots as a sign of them ETSing.
IT MEANS THAT PEOPLE ARE SELLING DRUGS IN THE HOUSE THAT IT’S BY!!! trust me i know
I always thought this was done by bullies. I assumed they beat kids up, took their shoes, and threw them up there as a joke.
yah, started in the US, right, everything started in the US, even things which can be tracked back to 10 century… NOT. In my country, people used to put their shoes on trees and inside the house for many reasons – religion and such, in 8 century a.d. When no US was around, so stop thinking that you are the first or the best.
Shoe graffiti? Or symbol of someone passing.., not anymore. And certainly not in America. It’s a sign that drugs are sold in that area, which is why quite often you find them in low income neighborhoods and near street corners. Shoe graffiti…wouldn’t that be nice if were only true.
I was told be some friends in New York that kids did to other weaker individuals to prove their superiority, it was like an insult. You would beat someone up, jump, or rob them, then steal their shoes and throw them up. It was like saying “i dont want your nasty shoes but I’m going take them just because I can.”
It marks gang turf. the color on the shoes are specific with which gang is which.
The shoes get thrown to give you something to talk about.
Depending on where you live.. but for the most part in inner cities or urban cities… this is a sign of gang or drug territories… Dealers or gangs use the shoes to mark off territories…
Criminal Justice knowledge
Someone once told me that shoes on power lines is some sort of “secret” code indicating that there is drug dealing in the “shoefiti” area, but this is something I highly doubt. Where I live there are many University students living in apartments and renting houses in my area, and I think the “shoefiti” is just the work of the students having a joke, or doing a dare. I have never noticed any gangs or anything like that in my street, so that theory is unlikely. Possibly there are many different reasons for “shoefiti”, and the shoes are not always up there for the same reasons. Or maybe there is some sort of code for different types of shoes, for example converse shoes for gangs and sneakers for people who have died, but I can’t see gang members going out to buy a pair of expensive shoes to hang on a power line. The point is, no-one really knows the full reason for “shoefiti”, and we might never find out – or maybe shoes on power lines mean nothing at all, just random people being random so that every time they drive under their shoes they can think “I did that!”
It’s a warning to other gangs that one gang controls that area.
The shoes come from someone who gets beaten up for being in their territory.
No other reason behind it. Just gangs.
Where I live shoes on a powerline means there is a flop house (drug dealers) and is also a symbol that the neighborhood may have gang members living there. Often more than not though kids will throw shoes to act like their neighborhood is tough to try intimidating people.
you do know they started with throwing the shoes on the line because the shoes belong to someone who died near there…
I really enjoyed this post! I always wondered why people would do such a thing. I think I am a little weird though. I long for a world where there is no grafitti or vandalism. I long for a world where everyone would take care of their personal property and respect that of others as if it were their own.
theres a gang some where
Occam’s razor gives you the answer. Bullies take stuff and throw it somewhere tough to get to. I’m sure you can find shoes, backpacks and other things on commercial rooftops, too. The number of urban myths being repeated here is amusing.
Where I am, it means some one died
No connection to drugs LOL!
Many people THINK they know the ‘real’ answer. MOST are wrong, simply because it is not POSSIBLE for more than a small fraction to be correct, unless there are so many actual reasons the NONE are true a significant portion of the time. The most plausible answer is given in the first comment. It is done to see if the person CAN do it.
here you see that in the inner city and i was told by a cop once it was to let people know this is where drugs are sold.
where I live there is a shoe tree. people just do it for the hell of it I think. mostly rebellious kids. there’s nothing else to do, so why not throw your old shoes in a tree
In many parts of the US, shoes on a power line indicate a place where drugs are regularly sold. This is especially true in college towns, where students come from out of town and out of state to attend college. The shoes help them find dealers in their new surroundings.
i see a pair of shoes,tied together,in my neighbor which never make since to me.
The article should have done more to puncture the myth that the shoes are typically crime/gang related, since several commenters seem to still believe the myth.
I’ve lived in the shadow of Fort Bragg for most of my adult life, and I heard a version that specifically mentions the Corcoran jump boots worn by members of the 82nd Airborne Division (in which both my first husband and middle son served).
According to this, when a paratrooper retired, separated from the Army, or was permanently relieved from jump status due to injury, it was the tradition to throw his (and, since women also serve in parachute units) or her Corcorans over a power line.
I’m not sure why, however; my guess might be that it’s akin to taking the flag when a post is evacuated–you don’t want your boots (a source of pride and a distinguishing mark of the 82nd Airborne) to fall into hands that have no idea of what they represent to their owners or would not care for them properly.
Ahhh, tradition!
If i could answer I would but heres my answer FREE SHOWS! lol
Where i live,it is used to signify that someone has died nearby and it is used as a sign of respect for them!
I’ve always wondered what they meant specifically, but this article did not help much cause now I know it can mean a variety of things or nothing at all.
But anyways, thanks, I know now more than I did before. I see them a few times here and there, but not very often. I used to think it was a dead habit around here since I haven’t seen them for so long until just last month where a pair was spotted on a line they weren’t on before.
In the picture and in empty and/or dark/melancholy places, shoes on the line can be an eerie sight to me. And it’s even more tragic to think that it could also mean that someone has died.
after aliens abduct many people, they eventually need to get rid of the clothing that builds up, they simply drop it over a city and some of the shoes get caught on the lines. other clothes do too , but arent trapped in the lines as easily as the shoes and blow or fall away.
I know two spots in town, and both are above the spots where people died. One got hit by a car and I don’t know about the other. Sort of like a way to remember people.
I thought they were a sign of a local drug dealer. I don’t know the origin. I don’t actually know what the intent behind it is or why people do it. I do think it’s a waste of time and a sign of society degenerating. Just like graffiti.
I’ve always been told that it means that is where you can usually find drugs.. My mother has warned me to stay away from those areas.
In Quebec its to mark a street gangs territory it means we own this part of town beware not to tresspass or you will pay !
in low class/run down areas it ALWAYS means gang/drug turf.
I heard it was because that’s how drug dealers signal that they are in a nearby area.
The crack house / gang turf theory has been around for years. When an opposition gang member lost his life in enemy territory, up went another pair of shoes.
Bullies? Crack houses? Gangs? I grew up in one of those “rough neighborhoods” I remember every summer,some kid threw their shoes up there to celebrate the end of the school year. And this was before crack was prevalent. But maybe, like Chad said, there’s many reasons for it. This is the reason I saw kids do it in the early 70′s (along with their busted Clik-Claks).
I have heard many different variation, because this has happened for many different reasons. Where I am from this seemed to be less sinister (not for a death or for drug dealers) and was almost always very old shoes, a sign that they were probably done by the owner of the shoes. There will never be a right answer because it is not done for a signle universal reason.
To my local knowledge & area. “Australia” throwing shoes over the powerlines, is usually by someone who cannot stand a family members scabby, smelly, worn out shoes.
e.g. your mom can’t stand your grotty shoes so over the powerlines they go.
Here in Santa Fe there’s an intersection (St. Michaels/Old Pecos Trail) where ONE shoe is thrown on the island. Anyone know what that could mean? Mens and womens shoes- tennis, dress, hiking, boots, sandles, any type.
Well this also happens in my country (Trinidad) where people throw shoes on the power lines. There’s a lot of crime in the cities and stuff but not where I live so I have no idea why they do this. The funny thing is that they throw most of them on the same street as the shoe store.
I always thought it meant someone got bullied. Bullies do that sometimes.
It means drugs are being sold nearby. I know when I was about 15 at the end of my block there was an old beat down apartment where druggies would hang outside and try to sell us drugs and alcohol, one day there were shoes thrown over the wires a few days later the door was busted in by the cops and the men all in jail.
The fact you asked this question says something about your intelligence or lack thereof. Shoes on the power lines means that someone put them there… That simple.
Although, I am amused by some of these sarcastic comments lol
this shold go to the mith busters i think thay well find out what it means and i was told its drug relatid …. trust me i hang out with drugges….
PUNK kids do it JUST to get attention. There is NO OTHER REASON. PERIOD!!!!!
It means that it is a drug dealing spot. Not kidding
NOoooo that is not the real reason! black ppl have been doing this for over 70 years it has NOTHING to do with SHOEFETI.
The shoes where thrown up there by either the best friends or family members of a person who lived their and they died young. It was done as a way of keeping the memory of that person alive.
I know that in a lot of the bad areas it in Baton Rouge (I live in the nicer areas thankfully) shoes on power lines means they sell drugs there. Also my dad’s a cop, so yeah…that’s what it means in southern Louisiana.
As former resident of Los Angeles, CA, my first encounter of witnessing a pair of shoes thrown across a power line meant one thing – SOMEBODY DIED. All these other propositions mean absolutely nothing. It really has one meaning – and that is – the legacy of the person who died has his shoes thrown over the power line. True, most of the time it has everything to do with gangs, but there are other offers of this event which go back to our military and has nothing to do with gangs. Army boot tossing was a sign that a member of the military was moving on to another post, or position, or had completed basic training. Just like during certain holidays, we decorate our homes for Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, yellow ribbons around trees to represent out concern for our soldiers to come home, fly our flags to symbolize our love of our country -we are a culture of people who will demonstrate our need for self-expression.
someone here in city government says it’s a spot where drugs are being sold…I live in Los Angeles
where i come from, it means that some one died or moved away and it is a way for people to remember that person. its a legacy.
There are always shoes on the power line out in front of our house. We live a block down from the high school and this seems to be a ritual for the kids to throw shoes up there at the end of the year.
When I was a kid it was said that a person got tired of their shoes and threw it up there and if it was found by another kid, and that kid was brave enough to go up there, then the shoes now officially belonged to the kid.
This really made me understand a lot .
It means some poor kid is walking around barefoot.
everybody knows that means theirs a drug dealer in the neighborhood -_-
it means there is a gang in the area.
gang teritory if you will
and to tell other gangs to back off
One of my friends saw someone losing a shoe like that. It was a bunch of girls on their typical hangouts just found some boy and decided to get out a good laugh by throwing his shoes on the power lines. Pretty rude, but no real problem.
marking gang terotory
well where we live at when somebody in a gang gets killed they thur his or her shoes on the power line it doesnt have any thing to do with >>> “shoefiti” (shoe + graffiti). we have about 4 different gangs and they are getting killed all the time
people who hang shoes on the powerline mean its dangerous and they have many gangs in the neighborhood here in birmingham alabama there are many of those and eastlake is the baddest
well were i grew up it meant someone died and there shoes were thrown into the air on the power line to leave a remberence for them kinda like a memorial jus haters and ppl who dnt like them can destroy
Another theory is people do that to remember a certain (Basketball) play or game or special/exciting moment. Learned that from my friend =)
Boy scouts have thrown their hiking boots over the tall entrance gate at the Philmont Scout ranch in New Mexico for at least 4 decades – I saw it myself in the late 1960′s. It has nothing to do with drugs but more to do with celebrating finishing a week long hike in the mountains. I don’t see a bit of references given for the tie to drug dealers or how it started – a quality source is needed for that otherwise I would term this urban legend (as does Snopes).
I’m not sure about gang territory, I live in southern Ontario (Canada) and here it either means some kid didn’t want their shoes or that a drug dealer lives nearby. (Obviously not every drug dealer has shoes hung up on the lines by their house though.)
Lol,I always thought it meant gang territory. The sight of those shoes would always have me running.
A friend of mine has a pair of shoes on a wire.
His wife put his car keys in one shoe and her wedding ring in the other, and tossed them up on the wire. She then threw him out of the house and filed for a divorce for reasons I wont mention here.But he had to laugh also when she did that!
d;o)
Where I’m from, people say it means there’s a drug dealer in the neighborhood haha
Me and my brother were talking about this, and he said it started as a sign that someone was selling crack in that area.
I live in the UK I used to do this sort of thing in the 1940′s It could be risky id someones ma caught you because clothes were rationed. I don’t know ho many coupons you had to use for shoes but it did mean that someone else in the family had to go short on clothing. If the shoes could not be recovered
It was safer to make a parachute and if that got caught it did not matter
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it often means that it is a place to buy drugs
Where I’m from, shoes on a power line show where a drug dealers house is. Not usually crack though, more often than not it means a marijuana dealers house.
Yeah, around here it means that drugs are in the vicinity, also if it is solid colors then its also means gang activity, in some cases people who are murdered have their shoes thrown on the lines as a sign of remembrance
I always believed it meant a local sportsman had “hung up their boots”, retired from their chosen sport usually soccer or rugby.
Shoes on a power line mean someone has thrown some shoes onto a power line. No more. No less. Most urban legends are total horse sh1t.
mischievous children not having anything to do.
These days its part of guerilla marketing campaigns for shoe companies. They put up brand new shoes on power lines in poor neighborhoods to try and increase sales when they see mysterious new shoe styles.
Shoes on the powerline means go there with munny and get happy…
It means the neighborhood sells drugs, and is a busy and active drug dealing spot. Or at least thats what it meant it DE. Children have a lot to do with Drug selling these days. My niece sold drugs at one point (14 years old!!!!) and was doing it so her family wouldn’t get evicted. She told us she got a job and thats where she was getting the money from but an undercover cop busted her. Sad times. Still though, shoes on power line= drug dealing hot spot.
Shoes on power lines now days means you can buy dope close by.
Where I’m from that means someone was a jerk to someone else and threw their gym shoes up on the line. I suppose it means different things in different areas.
this started in the ghetto when someone was killed in a gang they threw the killed persons shoes over power line to remeber them
In Melbourne, Australia, where I live, it’s generally known that shoes over power lines mean that drugs can be obtained in the area.
i have heard several times that shoes on the line means that drugs are sold there.
In the hood in Florida depending what color the shoes are it marks the area where you can get your drug of choice..in NY some mark drug spots and some mark gang turf
actualy it stems from a movie, a kid found a pair of tennis shoes on a power line thay were magicial when he put them on he could out jump any one
i saw this outside my doctor’s office in annandale virginia.
In my neighborhood, it’s definitely a bully thing. They force kids to take off their shoes, then toss them on the power lines to keep from being caught with the evidence and to permanently deprive the owner from their shoes.
Bullies tried to get my son’s shoes once. They failed, but I caught them taking another kid’s shoes and reported them by name to the police (Toribio, I still remember you!).
i was told the if you stand under the shoe for long enough then somebody will try and sell you cocane
Here in new orleans it signifies where one gang’s territory ends and another begins. Get caught on the wrong side and, well… it’s not a good idea.
Another theory is people do that to remember a certain (Basketball) play or game or special/exciting moment. Learned that from my friend =)
Watch the movie “Wag the Dog”, and you’ll see another reason for this.
The drugs thing, is that just an urban myth or are drug dealers in America really that dumb? Do the put, “2 for 1 on Smack” posters in their windows too? Seems to me they’d get more traffic that way for probably the same amount of attention from the police
This can be a marking of gang territory also depending on where it is.
LOL, if it meant drugs every block would be littered with shoes in Harlem. They are almost always near a memorial site of a teen or young adult, usually accompanied by candles, flowers, and posters…and tend to remain after the shrine is removed. Like graffiti T-shirts baring the image of the dead the shoes are a reminder of their untimely end. Many gangs still uphold this tradition, as I have learned over my life time from affiliating with certain people, but I learned about the significance of shoes first from my mother.
when I was in the USMC it meant that a Marine was getting out of service, and out of the clown circle so to speak that the military life is some times, we use to color them like clown boots, one time a Marine that was in my platoon neatly folded up his camies and so forth with his nicely shined boots and put a cover over the boots and cammies in a morning formation were was suppose to be, do you want to see a lifer Sgt Major go crazy that is a sure way to do it, but he took it as a joke. OOH RAH FELLOW DEVIL DOGS.
Shoefity
Here is your answer.
From middle school through high school I played sports. Either football, wrestling or track, depending on the time of year.
We always had dedicated athletic footwear for each of those sports. The laces would be tied together and carried on the outside of our gym bags, since we didn’t want our smelly sneakers inside the gym bags.
Every so often, while getting off the school bus, a mischievious friend would grab the shoes, run a few feet and then toss them up in the air, trying to wrap them around the power or telephone lines. Just so you know, the power lines are usually very high in the air. Most of the time, the shoes will get caught on other the telephone or cable tv lines, which are positioned much lower and closer to the ground.
So there is your answer. It was an act of mischief on the parts of school-aged teens.
I’ve never heard of them being drug-related. I know here in DC it’s done in someone’s memory, not because of drugs or kids being mean to eachother…
in ireland it usually means that theirs a drug supplier in the area
often at times it would mean that you were living in the ghetto!
and then at other times people would put a bloody skull up on the power lines!
I’ve often heard that shoes on powerlines was in reverence of a person, usually a young person, who lost their life due to street violence. Such as an innocent bystander who got hit and killed by a stray bullet in a drive by. Who knows if that’s really true or not.
In some Latin cultures, the shoes are thrown on the power lines for the angels that came down to walk on Earth among us. When angels travel among us, it is said they do not wear shoes, so the shoes are put on the power lines so the angels can grab them on the way down and have shoes to wear.
there was a movie that started the craze, i dont know wehre the answerer came up with such a stupid answer. it is a protest but right now i dont even remember the movie or what they protested
I thought it was because of the movie with Robert DeNiro WAG THE DOG where he introduced the shoes on various places to remember a “fictional” fallen soldier with a similar name, like Shoemaker.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/
See I always thought that was because of the fall of your nieghorhood.
as when I was a kid their was lot of them.
In my hood now 0
There are some extremely poor examples of grammar posted within the comments. I cannot help but distrust anything written by such illiterate-minded “people.”
WHO KNOWS why the shoes are there. Perhaps it is the mark of boggle-eyed space-aliens, or Republicans.