Sad News

[oldwheels]

For many years a pair of old trainers have been hanging on a cable high above the road just north of Salen on the Isle of Mull. The recent gale has been too much for them and they have fallen down and one has got lost. Social media is awash with tears at this momentous event and indeed this iPad feels a bit damp. There is little doubt that this well known tourist attraction will be replaced asap.
No, I have not been consoling myself ( yet) with a dram or two.
Takes little to amuse the teuchters in these parts but do other places have such features?

 

[Sharky]

Let us pray for their soles.

 

[Globalti]

What about the traffic cone on the statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow? Don't tell me that's been blown off as well?

 

[Salty seadog]

Takes little to amuse the teuchters in these parts but do other places have such features?

There is one slung over some phone cables at the end of Statenborough Lane in Eastry.

In fact here it is.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2...KIJi1cfqKgZXB_VIxZIA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Trainers over cables indicate a drug dealer is active in the area, or is that just an urban myth?

 

[Salty seadog]

I first started noticing this in the Netherlands where there were loads of wires with shoes hanging from them. No idea what it's all about.

 

[Salty seadog]

Trainers over cables indicate a drug dealer is active in the area, or is that just an urban myth?

Urban myth I'd say. I have heard that before too.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Trainers over cables indicate a drug dealer is active in the area, or is that just an urban myth?

Swingers in Scotland

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Swingers in Scotland

Pampas grass round here if that's your thing.

 

[Globalti]

Just kids, I'd say.

 

[mudsticks]

Oh - how sad - i remember them - i even took a picture - not far from the log loading pontoon iirc - off to search for the picture

 

[rualexander]

New Zealand has had fences decorated with shoes and bras.

https://www.google.com/search?clien...l5.0.0..5154...0.0..0.0.0.......0.Z6DTZ4fKrl8


https://www.google.com/search?q=bra...id-sonymobile&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

 

[mudsticks]

This was them right?? - if it is the same pair we can see that they are technically boots not trainers.

Maybe these are different ones - who knows? - i do know well myself that ones own fun has to be sought in the country - so perhaps there was an outbreak of foot-wear tossing in this area...

 

[mudsticks]

There was a rather sad - laminated onto the road - hedge-hog for years and years in the village i used to inhabit.

And a mummified squirrel that has mis-judged its leap - over a telegraph wire nearby

Clearly it was so dull round those parts - that even the wildlife gave up on the will to live ..

 

[slowmotion]

There's a collection of trainers hanging from a chain by the Thames at Battersea. I always assumed that they were some kind of a shrine to someone who died. Some people have suggested that they are just put there by beachcombers who find them at low tide.