In the town where I live
hanging by the laces from a telephone wire stretched across a busy street between one of the pubs and the Chinese, are a pair of filthy white rotting trainers.

They were put up there about 5 years ago and have been hanging there defiantly ever since. They've survived some of the worst Cumbrian weather we've ever had and yet they still remain there.

It's a better landmark than that stupid clock that sounds like a WOTW tripod.

Finally burst my b3ta bubble after 4 years of lurking :)
(Well cut jib, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:08, 19 replies)

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, closed)

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)

welcome
fellow cumbrian!

where is this clock of which you speak? I am intriqued!
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 15:43, closed)

Why thank you!

I'm referring to the giant piece of scrap metal in Workington town centre, definitely worth the money spent on it...
(Well cut jib, Wed 27 Apr 2011, 13:05, closed)

I've seen trainers in an even odder place.
There's a pair hanging over a cable in the middle of one of the most traditional streets in Oslo -- one where houses go for around a million dollars.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 19:02, closed)

Ditto 'The Shoe Tree', Studley Green, Bucks.

(SonoraAeroClub "OH SWEET HELEN OF BALLS!", Tue 26 Apr 2011, 20:49, closed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox2YYtD2emk
Very apt.
(BobLog, Tue 26 Apr 2011, 22:13, closed)

In Dublin
they mark drug dealers houses.
( dazbrilliantwhites has been meaning to change this..., Wed 27 Apr 2011, 12:20, closed)

For real?
If they mark drug dealers houses, and everybody knows what it means, why don’t the drug dealers put up a sign saying “Drug’s For Sale” and be done with it?
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 27 Apr 2011, 13:55, closed)

because...
Irish drug dealers hate to see an apostrophe misused.
(nordelius, Wed 27 Apr 2011, 16:06, closed)

I can't believe they'd not use the grocers apostrophe

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Wed 27 Apr 2011, 19:46, closed)

Lol
Why's every think they marking drug houses? It's just for a laff innit. You steals sum1s shoos, yeah, an tie em up, chukem, spinnin like, and over dey go, fully around en ova.

It's just a laff. Why would the drug dealers want to mark their house? The cops will just come and take them down with their uzi's and shit. OL SKOOL!
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Wed 27 Apr 2011, 13:56, closed)