I dropped a pupil off this afternoon in the Broxtowe Estate. I was struck by the sudden proliferation of trainers hanging from telephone wires.
In the space of about 200m there are three pairs on phone wires from three adjacent telephone poles.
About a year ago someone at the council had to go around removing them – there were dozens hanging all over the place. It always happens in the places where you’d think people could ill-afford to lose expensive pairs of trainers like this.
Why do they do it?
An update: A reader informs me it is used by gangs to mark their territories!
In Broxtowe, they can’t be very bright – if you come from Nottingham you already know that, of course – because there is a pair hanging off three adjacent poles. And how on earth they can tell the difference between one pair and another is also beyond me. It’s even more stupid that the rolled-up trouser leg thing they also use.
I can’t see why they don’t just mark their territories like other animals do.