Shoefiti Strikes the UK
Adam MacQueen rips the Mail for what he considers to be their sloppy reporting on shoefiti in the UK. The Mail takes the scare tactic angle:
Oh, do some research, for god’s sake…
It looks like a harmless teenage prank – training shoes dangling from telephone wires in a quiet suburban street” intoned the Mail on Sunday on 21 April. “But for residents in this affluent neighbourhood it is a sign of something far more sinister. It tells them violent gangs are operating in their midst. Police say the symbol has started springing up across the country as a warning sign from gangs to rivals to keep off their ‘patch’.”
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