Archive for September, 2005
Shoefiti Strikes Duluth, MN
I spotted some shoefiti while doing race support for the winning team at this year’s Adventure Duluth race. It will be interesting to see how Duluth responds to shoe removal requests compared to Minneapolis. Minnetonka did a reasonably fast job removing a case of shoefiti earlier this summer. Will Duluth do the same? What do [...]
Published by admin on September 25th, 2005 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Urban Lore Links Sneakers To Drugs
A Cleveland, OH City Councilwoman decided to do something about Shoefiti in her town after hearing about the connection between hanging shoes and drug dealing from children in her neighborhood. The post includes a series of comments from people with their own Shoefiti theories, including some people with first-hand shoefiti experience motivated by celebrating milestones [...]
Published by admin on September 25th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoefiti Strikes The OC?
This is not FOX’s "The OC." A story in the OC Weekly (Orange County, duh! ) about punk rocker Duane Peters includes a mention of shoefiti. Peters states that gangs are responsible for the shoes hung from the power lines in front on his house, but comes up with a truly unique reason for why [...]
Published by admin on September 23rd, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Lawrence, Kansas Shoes on Power Lines in Alleys = Drug Dealing?
A contributor to the Lawrence Journal-World named "smitty" explains the correlation between drugs and shoes hanging from powerlines in an alley near a shelter. It sounds very similar to what I’ve seen in Minneapolis: There’s also a well organized small group at the wet shelter to supply you with drugs if you want. Just go [...]
Published by admin on September 21st, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Secret Powerline Codes: A couple cops weigh in
Museum of Hoaxes has a fairly extensive thread on shoefiti under the subject, "Secret Powerline Codes." It incluces lots of comments from people around the world with their own theories on why the shoes are there. Interestingly, it includes at least two comments from posters who mention that they’re cops. Here’s what they had to [...]
Published by admin on September 20th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | 1 Comment »
Los Angeles Mayor Puts City Crews to Work on Shoefiti Abatement
Here is a 2003 news story about Shoefiti (described as "Dangling Shoes" by the Los Angeles NBC affiliate ) and how it’s being addressed by the Los Angeles Mayor (James Hahn) and Police Chief (William Bratton). Notice that the mayor and police chief stopped short of claiming the shoese are drug, gang, or prostitution related. [...]
Published by admin on September 19th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti in the Press | Comment now »
Shoefiti at Bossen Terrace
A housing development near the MSP airport has a long history of gang and drug problems, and happens to also have a case of Shoefiti. According to the Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED) Department’s web site, Bossen Terrace (5715 Sander Drive) was built in 1982 as a public housing project for low-income residents [...]
Published by admin on September 16th, 2005 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Phillips Community Shoe Sightings: September 14-15, 2005
I rolled through Mid and East Phillips yesterday, and West Phillips and Ventura Village today after work on a shoe sighting mission. Not surprisingly, I hit the motherlode. One common pattern of shoefiti spotted in that area is a combination of shoes hanging at the intersection of an alley, and then mid-block within the same [...]
Published by admin on September 15th, 2005 tagged Shoe Sightings | Comment now »
Shoefiti Reaches Pennsylvania
The concept of Shoefiti reached Pennsylvania on August 25th, 2005 when Chris at “Never a Dull Moment…” referenced the Wikipedia definition. Shoefiti sure gets around.
Published by admin on September 14th, 2005 tagged Shoefiti Mentions | Comment now »
Shoefiti Reaches Melbourne, Australia
You may be surprised to learn how fast a pair of shoes hanging on a powerline can travel. Here’s a documented case of shoefiti traveling half-way around the world in only four days. On July 29, 2005, I added Shoefiti to Wikipedia. Only four days later, a well endowed cartoon named “T I C K [...]