Shoe tossing, is 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 flinging or "shoefiti" is the practice of throwing shoes whose shoelaces have been tied together so that they hang from overhead wires such as power lines or telephone cables. The shoes are tied together by their laces, and the pair is then thrown at the wires as a sort of bolas. This practice plays a widespread, though mysterious, role in adolescent folklore in the United States...
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I
found three pairs of sneakers hanging in trees yesterday. One pair was near the
Library Loop bus stop on The Evergreen State College campus. The other two
pairs were near the bus stop that is closer to my apartment across the street
from the campus dorms.
The
positioning of the shoes reminded me of dance steps unhindered by gravity.
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