Originally Posted by
J.C. Koto
At one point, so the urban legends tell us, this was a way to mark gang territory. Nowadays it still may be true, but I think kids mostly do it for fun when they get a new pair of shoes. Just one of those things that people see and decide to imitate. I've done it when I was a jerkwad idiot teenager...
Supposedly years ago when I lived in L.A. that a pair of shoes over the power line was a symbol to rival gangs that they shot one of theirs and took their shoes and flung them up on the wires for all to see as a reminder. 35 years later I don't think that means anything now. So urban legend? I don't know I was never in the gang banging scene.
Another gang banging legend is a banger with tear drops tattooed just below the eye, each drop represented someone they killed...I seriously doubt that one, someone walking the streets with 4 or 5 of those and never got caught. Some guys I saw with those tears weren't tough enough to beat my mom not alone a gang banger!