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Tied Shoes thrown over ESB wires

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  • 01-07-2006 1:46pm
    #1
    GospelGroupie
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭


    Folks,

    In Swords, as I understand, the whole "throwing a pair of shoes onto the ESB wires" thing is a kind of turf-marking for some drug dealer.... kind of like the two graffiti-painting gangs that are competing for wall-space around the town, marking their turf.

    Anyone know anything about this? Is this just a Swords thing or is everywhere that I see a pair of shoes thrown into the esb wires likely to be a dealers patch?

    It's a mistery.


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    Femelade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    it means the same here in cork afaik.


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    #3
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    It does.

    I have them removed wherever I find them, just to piss off the scobes.


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    Huggles
    Registered Users Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭Huggles


    Jaysis how naieve am I, I thought it was kids having a laugh LMFAO.

    I should probably stay indoors for good now, being that naieve. :(


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    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,973 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    There used to be a pair thrown over electrical cables in Portrane. I recall someone saying something similiar re: drugs.


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    Anto McC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Anto McC


    First i have ever heard of it,I'm from town and there is a few around here but maybe i'm just naieve!


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    PrettyInPunk
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    i thought it was done by someone other than the dealer to warn people?


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    grimloch
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    TheGooner wrote:
    Jaysis how naieve am I, I thought it was kids having a laugh LMFAO.

    I should probably stay indoors for good now, being that naieve. :(

    It is done by some kids having a laugh. Either that or there's a new breed of very young dealers in town.


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    Huggles
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    grimloch wrote:
    It is done by some kids having a laugh. Either that or there's a new breed of very young dealers in town.

    Pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeww!!


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    connundrum
    Registered Users Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Thats a fairly international phenomenon afaik. I've seen it in two cities in South Africa and in America I've often seen it on telly.. actually if you ever watch Training Day you'll see it all over the place. Its basically - drugs available.


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    Dave!
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    hmmmm... didn't know about that...

    How does one avail of these drugs? Ask the shoes?


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    dmck2886
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    Its basicly a drugs for sale sign.


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    monkeyfudge
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    DaveMcG wrote:
    hmmmm... didn't know about that...

    How does one avail of these drugs? Ask the shoes?
    If you hang around near the shoes for a while you should be approached.

    It could all just be an urban myth though.... does anyone here avail of the shoe service?


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    Limerick Dude
    Registered Users Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    yeah ive seen them alot around where i live.


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    Dooom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    Monkeyfudge's more or less spot on. Uh, so I've heard.
    Although nowadays there's such a thing as a phone...


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    cue
    Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭cue


    Love to be a fly on the wall for whoever thinks up these ideas. In New York in the seventies it meant heroin available. There is a pair hanging outside my office window and it is just seems like a waste of a good pair of shoes as there is about ten lads sitting there banging up in full view every day.


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    connundrum
    Registered Users Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    DaveMcG wrote:
    hmmmm... didn't know about that...

    How does one avail of these drugs? Ask the shoes?

    LOL..

    It could be a new form of initiation test for drug gangs.. a nube would have to sneak off to another gang's territory and steal a pair of shoes from afore mentioned ESB wires. Not only would the nube be risking death by electocution, falling from a height, having 'a cap popped in his ass', but he would also have to wear the shoes for a full week - WITHOUT LACES!

    Scary stuff :o


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    Plug
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    Theres a few of them around where I live, its just youngfellows messing:rolleyes: I don't think its drugdealers at all:)


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    Ruu_Old
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    Maybe its a shoe shining service or something? I saw a pair a few miles from where I live but they have since been removed.


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    abetarrush
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    Femmy wrote:
    it means the same here in cork afaik.
    what's AFAIK....


    Ok, i jus figured it out der :P


    I always tot people just nick peoples shoes and throw em up der for the craic


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    Doomspell
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    I have seen one or to around cork but I went to Bristol recently and we went to the park,for a walk. There was a huge tree and ESB wires going around it, sure thats fine nothing out of the ordinary but on every single branch there was a pair of shoes,tied by there laces. They were all over the wires too.


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    Doomspell
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    abetarrush wrote:
    what's AFAIK....


    Ok, i jus figured it out der :P


    Wait!! What does it mean:confused:


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    Mr. Presentable
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    dmck2886 wrote:
    Its basicly a drugs for sale sign.

    And do they take them down when they have none left? :D


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    spurious
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    It was clackers in my day...oh the good old days...


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    #25
    abetarrush
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    Doomspell wrote:
    Wait!! What does it mean:confused:
    As Far As I Know, afaik


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    scojones
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    It can be either turf marking or a sign that someone was murdered there.


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    Dustaz
    Registered Users Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Dustaz


    Maybe it means that now, but im pretty sure back in the day when we used to throw fat daras shows up on the wires for the laugh noone ever approached me trying to buy drugs of any kind (apart from maybe a few blackjacks)

    Unless of course my 6 year old neighbour was the 1970's biggest drug kingpin. HOW did i miss this!


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    #28
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    spurious wrote:
    It was clackers in my day...oh the good old days...

    Oh crap. Mine too:eek:


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    #29
    ThrownAway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭ThrownAway


    There's been a pair hung over a wire about a mile from where I live on a main street for two years now :rolleyes: You'd think someone would take them down.


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    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,983 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Drugs I'm afriad, although I'm sure there are quite a few out there that was just some kids messing. I work in some bad areas with a lot of drugs problems, this is common knowledge there.


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    simu
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    I've never noticed shoes on wires before but I'll keep an eye on the skies. Although most people source drugs through word of mouth, afaiksies.

    Also, how do they get the shoes up there - would be tricky enough, no? And do they buy cheap lidl shoes or such to throw up specially or do they just use a worn pair belonging to one of the gang?

    It all seems very odd!


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