Posted: 1/17/2009 10:15:14 AM EDT
| Maybe you guys can explain this because I don't get. It seems everytime I drive thru a bad part of town (any town), there is a pair of shoes with laces tied together thrown over a powerline just hanging there. Is there some kind of symbolic meaning or do the hood rats just not have anything better to do? I grew up out in the country, I didn't know if it was a "hood" thing or what? |
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Kids today are soft. When we were young, we used to throw people over the powerline. Feh. Power?? When I was your age, we had to stick a lightning rod up our ass and do a rain dance if we wanted electricity. AND WE WERE GLAD FOR IT!!! We'd walk 47 miles uphill both ways to do it too, through blizzards and rains of frogs and brimstone. On stumps, because they hadn't invented feet yet. Aah, the good ole days. |
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That used to be a sign you were leaving. Hanging up the boots. Common when someone in the Army was getting out. One shitbag wrote "FTA" on the soles of his boots in white paint, then hung them in a tree near our formation assembly point, Yep. Used to see it all the time on Fort Hood. |
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I've heard its a mark to let you know that you can buy drugs on that street?  That's what I always thought How the hell would one mark gang territory this way? Different gangs use different brands of shoes?  sure...reboks for crips, nike's for bloods.... 
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hate to say it when I lived in del mar, ca –– I'd lived in a house called "dogpatch" with about 8 surfer/skaters/trendy types ––anyway we'd sling shoes over power lines. it meant nothing in our world
I'm 45 now and in my early 20"s then. you think your cool when your young but little do you know later you realize you were a idiot. |
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I've heard its a mark to let you know that you can buy drugs on that street? That's what I always thought How the hell would one mark gang territory this way? Different gangs use different brands of shoes? sure...reboks for crips, nike's for bloods.... Whatever happened to British Knights? BK = Blood Killa |
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Its wild animals marking their territory.
They'd piss on a tree , but well......there aint any. Besides , the hood stinks so bad that no one could smell it anyways. They double as landmarks too. "My crib be just pass da' secon' pay' o Pumas.......if yo see da red Jordans.....ya dun gone too fah." |