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Shoes, slung, bola-style, onto overhead wires are a fairly common sight around Vancouver, and, apparently, around the world, These sparkly pumps must make a interesting, momentary, distraction for the drivers speeding under them along Hemlock Street. They seem a little down-market for Fairview, but nothing like the "crack tennies" referred to by some Americans, who have filled the Internet with scary explanations that the shoes, usually running shoes, represent place markers, for gang territory, houses selling crack, and-or heroin, murder sites, and so on. Places without crack houses, or gang activity, still have shoes hanging from overhead lines, and this is chalked-up to end-of-school celebrations, drunken partying, and general youthful exuberance. Some of it, I think, could just be carelessness. I mean, in Fairview they toss so much stuff out that some of it's bound to land on overhead wires. Click the image to enlarge it.