Comments on: Shoes on a Florida Expressway

By: SparkS

SparkS — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:39:45 +0000

Hime – Good point but if you had no shoes they would be quite an improvement.

SM – Lots of good books from the 40′s. That was just a guess based on my knowing that a lot of great movies were made in the 40′s.

By: Daniel Kim

Daniel Kim — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:19:22 +0000

The Washington Post reported that the shoes will be taken to a vacant field, where they will be picked up by a nonprofit group called Soles4Souls. "Soles4Souls, which has distributed millions of pairs of shoes around the world, will ship the massive batch of shoes by truck to a processing facility in Alabama. There the organization will decide where to distribute them."

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:11:56 +0000

Hime, theyre not for wearing, theyre for eating

Im really not that old Sparks. I just went to a public elementary school that hadnt had a new book since the 40s

By: Hime

Hime — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:21:36 +0000

SparkS –
Shoes won’t do you any good up here. Your toes would freeze off, we need big warm boots.

By: SparkS

SparkS — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:14:19 +0000

Skipweasel “Soon to be renamed the Imelda Marcos Parkway.” There’s goes my thunder. GGGG

SenorMysterioso “… or the Hardy boys.”
You are an old one. Funny but old. GGGGG

Corinne “.. they give them to needy people, …”
I’m with you. Send them up North where it’s really cold. Who needs shoes where it never get’s below 75?

FWIW I don’t think it was a protest or prank. Imagine how long it would take to collect that many used shoes.
That’s a lot of leather! I think they fell off a truck probably being driven by an illegal alien that didn’t want to stick around.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:54:22 +0000

you’re all wrong, it was a localized Rapture.

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:42:28 +0000

you already told us about these guys.

see:
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/30/in-a-public-space/

By: idil

idil — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:22:19 +0000

Protest against Bush, definitely.

By: Paul in Boca

Paul in Boca — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:04:23 +0000

Aren’t they destined for Iraq?

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:00:19 +0000

ooo a mystery, call the scooby gang or the Hardy boys.

I remember at the height of the beanie baby craze there was a huge truckload of them spilled on the highway. It wouldnt have been a problem except for all the pedestrians trying to loot stuffed animals in the middle of 60mph traffic.

By: liphttam1

liphttam1 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:57:48 +0000

Give them to the poor.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:15:54 +0000

Soon to be renamed the Imelda Marcos Parkway.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:12:21 +0000

It is Art.

Those of you without proper artistic taste will never appreciate its message.

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:55:24 +0000

There was a Christian marathon this morning. It’s the Rapture. We’re all doomed.

Yeah, shoes aren’t needed on Heaven’s pillowy clouds.

By: Jennfre

Jennfre — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:41:25 +0000

I’d bet it’s one of those “smoking kills this many people” demonstrations.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:20:49 +0000

I hope that when they clean them up, they give them to needy people, rather than throwing them in a landfill or something.

By: Vim

Vim — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:06:24 +0000

could be some sort of protest…or some prank joke. kinda weird that no one noticed these shoes being dumped in the highway.

By: shawnisboring

shawnisboring — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:02:24 +0000

They missed him again

By: Doom

Doom — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:08:29 +0000

Shit, I was wondering where i left those…