Secret Powerline Codes
I've heard in the past that shoes hanging from a powerline means that you can buy drugs in the area. But according to this article, in which a utility worker is interviewed, there are even more secret codes:"The tennis shoes hanging up there mark drug areas," the worker says. "It's a sign to those who are 'in the know' that drugs are available for sale in that neighborhood." He goes on to explain the alleged meaning of yoyos and deflated helium balloons. "That meaning is a lot darker," he says. "Yoyos mean that sex is for sale in the area, and if a balloon is tangled in with the yoyos, that means both sex and drugs are for sale." He explains that the color of the yoyo indicates the ethnicity of the person offering sex.
So what are you supposed to do if you see one of these codes? Go up to the nearest person and say, 'Hey, I saw the yoyo, if you know what I mean?' Maybe objects hanging from power lines simply mean that kids have thrown things up there to be obnoxious.
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
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What does it mean if you see some cheese strung up on a power pole?
I'm serious. Going for a drive yesterday someone had put two pieces of what looked like cheese on the ends of a string and chucked it up there. It was hanging off those little metal step things that guys climb up to fix the stuff at the top of the pole.
Posted by Soldant in Australia on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 05:17 PM
I'm serious. Going for a drive yesterday someone had put two pieces of what looked like cheese on the ends of a string and chucked it up there. It was hanging off those little metal step things that guys climb up to fix the stuff at the top of the pole.
Cheese on strings means that someone's idea of a better mousetrap has gone awry.
Posted by hcmomof4 on Sun Jun 12, 2005 at 09:09 PM
As I remember it, many catholic schools required dress shoes worn to class and all students had to keep a pair of athletic shoes (gym shoes) for gym class, by the end of the school year, the kids would out grow the shoes and on their way home on the last day of the school year would tie them together and throw them ober the power lines. Some power lines seemed to the special territory of certain schools or classes.
Posted by Jay in Detroit on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 09:02 AM
"objects hanging from power lines simply mean that kids have thrown things up there to be obnoxious."
But accepting that would require creating a mental space that allows for the possibility that some things in the world just don't really mean much of anything--and obviously, it's a slippery slope from there to some completely chaotic, absolutely relativistic world where 1+1=3 and the pope is secretly a satanist.
Posted by all-seeing eye dog in florida on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 10:07 AM
But accepting that would require creating a mental space that allows for the possibility that some things in the world just don't really mean much of anything--and obviously, it's a slippery slope from there to some completely chaotic, absolutely relativistic world where 1+1=3 and the pope is secretly a satanist.
In the Army soldiers threw their boots over the wires when they ETS's (left the service).
Posted by Mike in Buffalo, NY on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 10:15 AM
Does this site ever update anymore?
Posted by raoulduke on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 01:14 PM
Yes. Yes it does.
Posted by Boo in The Land of the Haggii... on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 01:17 PM
God forbid Alex takes a few days off. Maybe he's out there trying to corroborate the shoe story!
Posted by Silentz in general on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 04:29 PM
Or maybe, just maybe, he's been busy writing a book, like he's been saying all over the site. 
Posted by Winona in USA on Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 10:11 PM
naa the big drug and prostitution crime rings of america took him out.... he knew too much about the shoes...
Posted by joeodd on Wed Jun 15, 2005 at 12:40 AM
Or maybe he's really there, but just not updating, ya know, pulling a hoax of some sort on all of us...eh?
Posted by Tom on Wed Jun 15, 2005 at 01:02 AM
I think this site is a hoax.
Posted by Blackie on Wed Jun 15, 2005 at 07:01 PM
I think I'm a hoax.
Posted by Soldant on Wed Jun 15, 2005 at 09:22 PM
i think your a hoax too
Posted by joeodd on Thu Jun 16, 2005 at 01:14 AM
I know of a pair of dangling trainers (sneakers) in my hometown. They're outside a greengrocers shop. Maybe he hollows out the vegetables and stuffs them full of drugs.
When I was much younger (late eighties/early nineties) it was not uncommon to see a worn out bicycle tyre thrown over a lamp-post. It didn't mean anything other than somebody liked throwing old tyres around....
Posted by Creep Tom in UK on Fri Jun 17, 2005 at 01:56 AM
When I was much younger (late eighties/early nineties) it was not uncommon to see a worn out bicycle tyre thrown over a lamp-post. It didn't mean anything other than somebody liked throwing old tyres around....
Maybe, sneakers hanging from a power line just means it's a shitty neighborhood.
Posted by Zombie on Sat Jun 18, 2005 at 09:50 PM
Thats awesum!
hahaha
Posted by MeL in sydney on Sun Jun 19, 2005 at 05:54 PM
hahaha
I have a pair of rebox hanging outside my door in the alley way. Its a pretty bad neighborehood and I wouldn't doubt drug activity, but I dont think the shoes had anything to do with it. (Maybe its the graffiti?)
Surprised no one is hanging up signs that say "DRUGS 4 SALE & CRACK WHORE ON DUTY, RING the DOOR IF YOU WANT SOME BOOTY!" LOL.
Posted by Andrew in Lompoc, CA on Tue Jun 28, 2005 at 09:21 PM
Surprised no one is hanging up signs that say "DRUGS 4 SALE & CRACK WHORE ON DUTY, RING the DOOR IF YOU WANT SOME BOOTY!" LOL.
Where I live all of the power, telephone, etc, cables are buried. There are always lots of folks digging in the backyards trying to find buried balloons.
Posted by Manny on Thu Jul 14, 2005 at 08:02 PM
In my neighborhood, the only thing found hanging from powerlines is squirrels of the limp and lifeless variety.
What do you suppose is for sale here?
Posted by Irv in Talking Rock GA on Sat Jul 30, 2005 at 01:07 PM
What do you suppose is for sale here?
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