I don't know about up your way, but here in London there was a spate of this in order to ape the New York gangs
who throw the sneakers of erm ... fallen "comrades"/brothers -whatever they call themselves - over telephone wires in order to mark territory and battlegrounds.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:19, 2 replies)

According to the Walsall Express & Star (that bastion of fine journalism)
the trainers mark drug dealers' houses
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:21, closed)

Fair enough. I've just been instructed that gang members refer to each other as "soldiers".
And yet - and yet - whenever they kill each other in some pathetic postcode allegiance battle, they're always referred to as "A promising young footballer" or "gifted academic", instead of of "drug-dealing, illiterate, brain-shatteringly stupid scumbag who got what was coming from well over a mile off, considering that it's pretty well impossible to not be able to predict how it's all going to end up."
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:28, closed)

That's not how you spell solja bruv.
Innit
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:29, closed)

Touch me, blud.
Peace out.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:31, closed)

Safe.

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:32, closed)

If it's a girl who's stabbed or shot
she's always an "aspiring model" rather than a chavvy slag
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:32, closed)

Alternatively
'bubbly and outgoing' frequently means she was a bit dim and not the prettiest.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 22:42, closed)

I highly doubt they were put up there for that reason or anything remotely as subtle as that.

Chances are it was just some drunkards who decided it would be the funniest thing, since Joe Pasquale, to take somebody's shoes, tie the laces together and throw them over the telephone cable.

The only battlegrounds we have here are when the entire town divides into half and fight over a leather ball 3 times every year. ALso known as Uppies and Downies.
(Well cut jib, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:36, closed)