January 7, 2011 11:24 AM PST
Be nice if one of us came along and saw them.
January 8, 2011 12:18 AM PST
It's a shame, guess someone has been trying to do that for a while.
January 8, 2011 12:47 AM PST
Why the hell do people just create destruction and feel it is funny. A 2x4 across the face might be justified.
January 9, 2011 8:17 PM PST
I saw one of these "shoe trees" on the way in to Seligman Arizona a while back, I don't understand the meaning (if any) of these trees, I know in Ireland if you threw a shoe into a tree you would be slapped with a $200 fine for littering. Is there some meaning to these shoe trees, or is it just a wee bit of fun ?
January 10, 2011 1:22 PM PST
We, too, have a shoe tree on 585 between Sundance and 4 Corners and I would hate to see what would happen to the person one of the ranchers on that road caught tryin' to damage it!
January 11, 2011 1:05 AM PST
Neil, I am not sure when that started but it began in cities where kids would throw there used sneakers with laces tied together over power or telephone lines. There are several purported meanings:
* They are the shoes of a friend lost to violence thrown up in a memorial near their place of death.
* Signifies that drugs are sold at that location
* Marks gang territory
* You have bullies in your area and they took another kids shoes for a game of keep away.
* Someone got a new pair of tennies and just thought of a way to get rid of the old ones.
When I was a kid (yeah it has been done for that long) it meant the last item on the list.
