Real reasons you see shoes wrapped around power lines and why people claim you shouldn’t take them down

The post continued: “Unsuspecting uninformed kids would sometimes imitate the first two reason for fun not knowing the true meaning behind it. Tying old shoes together and seeing who could get them to stay up there.”

Or a final reason is ‘teenagers who were bullied also got their shoes taken and thrown onto wires as proof of losing a fight’.

Indeed, when it comes to the former, another user confirmed: “Whenever I wore out a pair of sneakers as a kid, I did this just to mark the occasion on my block. I think it’s mostly just bored kids doing hood rat s**t.”