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Posted: 29-07-2013 18:02 Post subject:

I'm sure we have a thread on phantom water droplets somewhere on here, it's more common than you might think and nothing to worry about.

Posted: 30-07-2013 00:52 Post subject:

Posted: 30-07-2013 01:35 Post subject:

cherrybomb do you think it's because we are in a semi detached state sitting in the loo? I've heard someone call my name only to find noone around and last weekend a male choir which cut out when I tried to work out what they were singing.
The lady behind which is closest isn't at all religious and there's no churches close enough to be heard.

Posted: 30-07-2013 05:10 Post subject:

I believe we have a talented shoe-thrower in the neighborhood who has begun to show off and make artistic statements. The power lines in my neighborhood, though by no means all so burdened, frequently are adorned with the good old mysterious pairs of shoes tied together at the laces, in one case with three in a single block; however, the nearest major intersection has a pair of ropers (the traditional "cowboy boot" slung over the power lines at one corner. Such boots, of course, do not lace!

They're obviously an old pair, afflicted with the pointing-up toes of boots that got wet and were improperly dried, and they appear to have been wired together as they don't hang straight down like the shoes do, with one above the other, but are side by side with a curve to the line connecting them.

It's possible that such an arrangement is harder to throw, and indicates a shoe-throwing artiste who finds the traditional medium of sneakers with laces insufficiently challenging.

Posted: 30-07-2013 07:56 Post subject:

Don't know if it's the same where you live but I remember reading awhile ago that it meant there was someone who sold drugs who lived near.

Posted: 30-07-2013 09:30 Post subject:

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Posted: 30-07-2013 12:25 Post subject:

Ronson 8 I think it was to alert users about sellers.

Posted: 30-07-2013 13:32 Post subject:

I've heard all sorts of explanations about the shoes as signals and I'm positive they're all nonsense. My neighborhood being a case in point - no way are there three dealers on one block! Plus, what's the use of a "dealer lives around here" sign? You don't go to the dealer's house unless you're personally known to him or her; the shoes don't (and can't) indicate a particular house without some elaborate pre-agreed code in which case it'd be a lot easier to set up a meeting place; you'd have to change signals constantly because if the general public knows about something like that so do the cops; and it's far to easy for some bored kid fooling around with gym shoes to try it out for himself and set up a false signal.

Similar objections apply to every other use of them as a signal that I've heard.

"Bored kids fooling around with old gym shoes" is far more likely as a root explanation. Somebody does it once; many people see the result and try if they can do it; custom spreads.

Posted: 30-07-2013 16:35 Post subject:

Posted: 30-07-2013 21:49 Post subject:

Certainly will! Very Happy

Posted: 01-08-2013 15:06 Post subject:

Gangbakgers throw shoes over utility lines as a memorial to fallen comrades.

Here in Baltimore. at the worst of the dope wars, there were large numbers o shoes hanging at intersections.sometimes the shoes were for a 'homeboy' sent to prison for a long time.

<Homies" are very fond of elaborate rituals and strange customs many of them spawned in prison, where they help pass the time.

Posted: 01-08-2013 15:13 Post subject:

Yep, I'lve heard that shoes over a telephone line are a mark of respect for someone who has died. Odd little custom really, isn't it.

Posted: 01-08-2013 15:15 Post subject:

And as to the strange incident of the clock in the night-time?

Batteries were failing, set of new ones, problem solved.

Posted: 01-08-2013 15:19 Post subject:

Last night I had several bad dreams, one of which I'd like to share.

In the dream I'm walking to work - nothing unusual -then I see a large black dog (I;m not a fan of dogs IRL so a stress thing maybe?) and as I look at the dog it sort of melts into a black bin bag. This big bag is tatty and ripped, and the wind catches it and it rolls in front of me, where the dog grows from out of it until the bin bag is once again, a solid massive black dog Dead / drunk

At this point I woke up. What the heck does it all mean?? Shocked