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 '''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s.  It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|publisher=Wichita Eagle|date=August 7, 2005|pages=1E|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/featuresblogs/featuresblogsbarnett/3129176.Shoewatch_update/|title=Shoewatch update||date=13th August 2007|author=Dave Barnett|publisher= Bradford Telegraph & Argus}}</ref>  Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable.<ref>{{citation|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22487390.html?dids=22487390:22487390&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+14%2C+1995&author=STEVE+HARVEY&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Only+in+L.A.&pqatl=google|title=The Case of the Sidewalk with Two Red Shoes|publisher=Los Angeles Times|author=Steve Harvey|page=4|date=Dec 14, 1995}}</ref>
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	There are many theories and individual explanations have been provided in some cases.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4DA4859F5BDB1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|title=Sole Survivor So That's Why Those Shoes Lie Alongside the Road\|date=April 9, 1992\|publisher=Rocky Mountain News}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF55F711E0B3DE3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|title=That's Shoe-Biz\|publisher=San Jose Mercury News\|date=January 29, 1993\|page=1E}}</ref> Shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, will last longer after being abandoned outdoors —vleather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.		There are many theories and individual explanations have been provided in some cases.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4DA4859F5BDB1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|title=Sole Survivor So That's Why Those Shoes Lie Alongside the Road\|date=April 9, 1992\|publisher=Rocky Mountain News}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF55F711E0B3DE3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|title=That's Shoe-Biz\|publisher=San Jose Mercury News\|date=January 29, 1993\|page=1E}}</ref> Shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, will last longer after being abandoned outdoors —vleather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.

	However, the opposite of this hypothesis is the commonness of obviously intentional shoe abandonment, such as shoe tossing, in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into ~~shoe trees~~, over power ~~lines~~, or over ~~fences~~		However, the opposite of this hypothesis is the commonness of obviously intentional shoe abandonment, such as [[shoe tossing]], in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into [[tree]]s, over [[power line]]s, or over [[fence]]s

	==Artistic use==		==Artistic use==
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	While many people see discarded shoes as just garbage, artists such as [[poet]]s derive insight and inspiration from them.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/09/arts/seeing-new-york-with-a-poet-s-eye.html\|title=Seeing New York With a Poet's Eye\|author=Mervyn Rothstein\|date=November 9, 1990\|publisher=New York Times}}</ref> The fisherman hauling up an old boot, rather than a fish, is a comic-strip [[cliché]]. In [[Cinderella]], the lost slipper is a classic example of the literary device of the 'lost object'.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mzpbyNXLwLsC\|page=184\|title=Love, desire and transcendence in French literature\|author=Paul Gifford\|year=2005}}</ref>		While many people see discarded shoes as just garbage, artists such as [[poet]]s derive insight and inspiration from them.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/09/arts/seeing-new-york-with-a-poet-s-eye.html\|title=Seeing New York With a Poet's Eye\|author=Mervyn Rothstein\|date=November 9, 1990\|publisher=New York Times}}</ref> The fisherman hauling up an old boot, rather than a fish, is a comic-strip [[cliché]]. In [[Cinderella]], the lost slipper is a classic example of the literary device of the 'lost object'.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mzpbyNXLwLsC\|page=184\|title=Love, desire and transcendence in French literature\|author=Paul Gifford\|year=2005}}</ref>

	The theme of abandoned footwear and their untold story is explored in the novel, ''Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries'' by author [[Julie Ann Shapiro]]. In the novel, her character describes the phenomenon, “The forgotten shoes are everywhere: littering the side of the highway, floating in the tide, going upstream with the Salmon, or occupying a field like a dead body,discarded and left to rot.” The novelist described the backstory of her novel, which offers much insight about the abandoned footwear from an art, societal and philosophical perspective. {{cquote\|In Southern California I noticed flip flops and running shoes left behind on the beach, the freeways, construction sites and parking lots and felt this uncanny urge propelling me to write about them. I couldn’t escape them, nor the unshakable sadness and loss I felt emanating from the shoes themselves. Why singular shoes I kept asking myself? Is it a Cinderella complex? Is this a poem I should write or a short story? I wrote them all and then one pivotal day I remembered a time as a teenager when my friends and I played with a Ouija board and a shoe moved by itself. It was this big aha moment! Of course, the shoes are haunted. Why didn’t I see it before? And that’s when I found Brad, my main character, the photographer who chronicled the shoes in the wake of his girlfriend’s uncertain death. In the singular shoes he saw, Jen-Zen, the eternal soul mate. He relived their love affair in search of answers as to why she died. Brad snapped pictures of the shoes and tried to say goodbye and get on with his life, but he couldn’t...the very shoes started to tell him something. When outsiders called his photographic odyssey nuts and others wanted to capitalize on it Brad believed most of all in his gut instinct telling him…there’s a message in the shoes…just believe…believe in yourself.}}		The theme of abandoned footwear and their untold story is explored in detail in the novel, ''Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries'' by author Julie Ann Shapiro. In the novel, her character describes the phenomenon, “The forgotten shoes are everywhere: littering the side of the highway, floating in the tide, going upstream with the Salmon, or occupying a field like a dead body,discarded and left to rot.” The novelist described the backstory of her novel, which offers much insight about the abandoned footwear from an art, societal and philosophical perspective. {{cquote\|In Southern California I noticed flip flops and running shoes left behind on the beach, the freeways, construction sites and parking lots and felt this uncanny urge propelling me to write about them. I couldn’t escape them, nor the unshakable sadness and loss I felt emanating from the shoes themselves. Why singular shoes I kept asking myself? Is it a Cinderella complex? Is this a poem I should write or a short story? I wrote them all and then one pivotal day I remembered a time as a teenager when my friends and I played with a Ouija board and a shoe moved by itself. It was this big aha moment! Of course, the shoes are haunted. Why didn’t I see it before? And that’s when I found Brad, my main character, the photographer who chronicled the shoes in the wake of his girlfriend’s uncertain death. In the singular shoes he saw, Jen-Zen, the eternal soul mate. He relived their love affair in search of answers as to why she died. Brad snapped pictures of the shoes and tried to say goodbye and get on with his life, but he couldn’t...the very shoes started to tell him something. When outsiders called his photographic odyssey nuts and others wanted to capitalize on it Brad believed most of all in his gut instinct telling him…there’s a message in the shoes…just believe…believe in yourself.}}

	~~In a dejavu-like twist of fate the~~ author ~~notes~~ that, "~~In the midst of searching for a publisher that a~~ real life photographer, Randall Louis Hamilton ~~(6)~~ contacted me and mentioned having a shoe photo collection, proving that life sometimes is stranger than fiction. ~~[7]~~		The author noted that, "... real life photographer, Randall Louis Hamilton contacted me and mentioned having a shoe photo collection, proving that life sometimes is stranger than fiction."

	==References==		==References==
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	http://www.recycle.ubc.ca/littermain.html Litter Reduction Program - UBC Waste Management ]		http://www.recycle.ubc.ca/littermain.html Litter Reduction Program - UBC Waste Management ]
	Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries (Synergebooks, ISBN 978-0-7443-1391-8), http://www.amazon.com/Jen-Zen-Shoe-Diaries-Julie-Shapiro/dp/0744313910/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202509481&sr=8-1</p>		Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries (Synergebooks, ISBN 978-0-7443-1391-8), http://www.amazon.com/Jen-Zen-Shoe-Diaries-Julie-Shapiro/dp/0744313910/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202509481&sr=8-1</p>
	~~Randall Louis Hamilton, http://www.oneshoediaries.com </p>~~
	Julie Ann Shapiro, Back Story of Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries, http://www.julieannshapiro.com/Backstory.htm</p>		Julie Ann Shapiro, Back Story of Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries, http://www.julieannshapiro.com/Backstory.htm</p>

	==~~See also~~==		==External links==
			*[http://www.oneshoediaries.com/blog/?page_id=137&album=1 Randall Louis Hamilton's gallery of abandoned shoes]
	*[~~[Shoe tossing]~~]

	[[Category:Footwear]]		[[Category:Footwear]]

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	~~In popular culture~~, a fisherman hauling up an old boot, rather than a fish, is ~~an old~~ comic-strip ~~joke~~.		While many people see discarded shoes as just garbage, artists such as [[poet]]s derive insight and inspiration from them.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/09/arts/seeing-new-york-with-a-poet-s-eye.html\|title=Seeing New York With a Poet's Eye\|author=Mervyn Rothstein\|date=November 9, 1990\|publisher=New York Times}}</ref> The fisherman hauling up an old boot, rather than a fish, is a comic-strip [[cliché]]. In [[Cinderella]], the lost slipper is a classic example of the literary device of the 'lost object'.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mzpbyNXLwLsC\|page=184\|title=Love, desire and transcendence in French literature\|author=Paul Gifford\|year=2005}}</ref>

	The theme of abandoned footwear and their "untold story" is explored in the novel, Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries by author Julie Ann Shapiro. In the novel her character~~, a photographer named Brad Lynberry,~~ describes the phenomenon, "“The forgotten shoes are everywhere: littering the side of the highway, floating in the tide, going upstream with the Salmon, or occupying a field like a dead body,discarded and left to rot.” ~~[5]~~		The theme of abandoned footwear and their untold story is explored in the novel, ''Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries'' by author [[Julie Ann Shapiro]]. In the novel, her character describes the phenomenon, “The forgotten shoes are everywhere: littering the side of the highway, floating in the tide, going upstream with the Salmon, or occupying a field like a dead body,discarded and left to rot.” The novelist described the backstory of her novel, which offers much insight about the abandoned footwear from an art, societal and philosophical perspective. {{cquote\|In Southern California I noticed flip flops and running shoes left behind on the beach, the freeways, construction sites and parking lots and felt this uncanny urge propelling me to write about them. I couldn’t escape them, nor the unshakable sadness and loss I felt emanating from the shoes themselves. Why singular shoes I kept asking myself? Is it a Cinderella complex? Is this a poem I should write or a short story? I wrote them all and then one pivotal day I remembered a time as a teenager when my friends and I played with a Ouija board and a shoe moved by itself. It was this big aha moment! Of course, the shoes are haunted. Why didn’t I see it before? And that’s when I found Brad, my main character, the photographer who chronicled the shoes in the wake of his girlfriend’s uncertain death. In the singular shoes he saw, Jen-Zen, the eternal soul mate. He relived their love affair in search of answers as to why she died. Brad snapped pictures of the shoes and tried to say goodbye and get on with his life, but he couldn’t...the very shoes started to tell him something. When outsiders called his photographic odyssey nuts and others wanted to capitalize on it Brad believed most of all in his gut instinct telling him…there’s a message in the shoes…just believe…believe in yourself.}}

	The novelist ~~describes~~ the backstory of her novel, which offers much insight about the abandoned footwear from an art, societal and philosophical perspective. "In Southern California I noticed flip flops and running shoes left behind on the beach, the freeways, construction sites and parking lots and felt this uncanny urge propelling me to write about them. I couldn’t escape them, nor the unshakable sadness and loss I felt emanating from the shoes themselves. Why singular shoes I kept asking myself? Is it a Cinderella complex? Is this a poem I should write or a short story? I wrote them all and then one pivotal day I remembered a time as a teenager when my friends and I played with a Ouija board and a shoe moved by itself. It was this big aha moment! Of course, the shoes are haunted. Why didn’t I see it before? And that’s when I found Brad, my main character, the photographer who chronicled the shoes in the wake of his girlfriend’s uncertain death. In the singular shoes he saw, Jen-Zen, the eternal soul mate. He relived their love affair in search of answers as to why she died. Brad snapped pictures of the shoes and tried to say goodbye and get on with his life, but he couldn’t...the very shoes started to tell him something. When outsiders called his photographic odyssey nuts and others wanted to capitalize on it Brad believed most of all in his gut instinct telling him…there’s a message in the shoes…just believe…believe in yourself.~~" [5]~~

	In a dejavu-like twist of fate the author notes that, "In the midst of searching for a publisher that a real life photographer, Randall Louis Hamilton (6) contacted me and mentioned having a shoe photo collection, proving that life sometimes is stranger than fiction. [7]		In a dejavu-like twist of fate the author notes that, "In the midst of searching for a publisher that a real life photographer, Randall Louis Hamilton (6) contacted me and mentioned having a shoe photo collection, proving that life sometimes is stranger than fiction. [7]

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	'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/featuresblogs/featuresblogsbarnett/3129176.Shoewatch_update/\|title=Shoewatch update\|\|date=13th August 2007\|author=Dave Barnett\|publisher= Bradford Telegraph & Argus}}</ref> Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22487390.html?dids=22487390:22487390&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+14%2C+1995&author=STEVE+HARVEY&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Only+in+L.A.&pqatl=google\|title=The Case of the Sidewalk with Two Red Shoes\|publisher=Los Angeles Times\|author=Steve Harvey\|page=4\|date=Dec 14, 1995}}</ref>		'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/featuresblogs/featuresblogsbarnett/3129176.Shoewatch_update/\|title=Shoewatch update\|\|date=13th August 2007\|author=Dave Barnett\|publisher= Bradford Telegraph & Argus}}</ref> Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22487390.html?dids=22487390:22487390&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+14%2C+1995&author=STEVE+HARVEY&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Only+in+L.A.&pqatl=google\|title=The Case of the Sidewalk with Two Red Shoes\|publisher=Los Angeles Times\|author=Steve Harvey\|page=4\|date=Dec 14, 1995}}</ref>

	~~Individual~~ explanations have been provided in some cases.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4DA4859F5BDB1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|title=Sole Survivor So That's Why Those Shoes Lie Alongside the Road\|date=April 9, 1992\|publisher=Rocky Mountain News}}</ref>		There are many theories and individual explanations have been provided in some cases.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4DA4859F5BDB1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|title=Sole Survivor So That's Why Those Shoes Lie Alongside the Road\|date=April 9, 1992\|publisher=Rocky Mountain News}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF55F711E0B3DE3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|title=That's Shoe-Biz\|publisher=San Jose Mercury News\|date=January 29, 1993\|page=1E}}</ref> Shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, will last longer after being abandoned outdoors —vleather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.
	~~And shoes~~, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, will last longer after being abandoned outdoors —vleather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.

	However, the opposite of this hypothesis is the commonness of obviously intentional shoe abandonment, such as shoe tossing, in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into shoe trees, over power lines, or over fences		However, the opposite of this hypothesis is the commonness of obviously intentional shoe abandonment, such as shoe tossing, in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into shoe trees, over power lines, or over fences

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	'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/featuresblogs/featuresblogsbarnett/3129176.Shoewatch_update/\|title=Shoewatch update\|\|date=13th August 2007\|author=Dave Barnett\|publisher= Bradford Telegraph & Argus}}</ref> Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22487390.html?dids=22487390:22487390&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+14%2C+1995&author=STEVE+HARVEY&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Only+in+L.A.&pqatl=google\|title=The Case of the Sidewalk with Two Red Shoes\|publisher=Los Angeles Times\|author=Steve Harvey\|page=4\|date=Dec 14, 1995}}</ref>		'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/featuresblogs/featuresblogsbarnett/3129176.Shoewatch_update/\|title=Shoewatch update\|\|date=13th August 2007\|author=Dave Barnett\|publisher= Bradford Telegraph & Argus}}</ref> Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22487390.html?dids=22487390:22487390&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+14%2C+1995&author=STEVE+HARVEY&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Only+in+L.A.&pqatl=google\|title=The Case of the Sidewalk with Two Red Shoes\|publisher=Los Angeles Times\|author=Steve Harvey\|page=4\|date=Dec 14, 1995}}</ref>

	~~It is possible that~~ shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, ~~simply~~ last longer after being abandoned ~~outdoors—leather~~ shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.		Individual explanations have been provided in some cases.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=RM&p_theme=rm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4DA4859F5BDB1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|title=Sole Survivor So That's Why Those Shoes Lie Alongside the Road\|date=April 9, 1992\|publisher=Rocky Mountain News}}</ref>
			And shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, will last longer after being abandoned outdoors —vleather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.

	However, the opposite of this hypothesis is the commonness of obviously intentional shoe abandonment, such as shoe tossing, in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into shoe trees, over power lines, or over fences		However, the opposite of this hypothesis is the commonness of obviously intentional shoe abandonment, such as shoe tossing, in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into shoe trees, over power lines, or over fences

			==Artistic use==

	In popular culture, a fisherman hauling up an old boot, rather than a fish, is an old comic-strip joke.		In popular culture, a fisherman hauling up an old boot, rather than a fish, is an old comic-strip joke.

	~~==See also==~~
	*Shoe tossing

	The theme of abandoned footwear and their "untold story" is explored in the novel, Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries by author Julie Ann Shapiro. In the novel her character, a photographer named Brad Lynberry, describes the phenomenon, "“The forgotten shoes are everywhere: littering the side of the highway, floating in the tide, going upstream with the Salmon, or occupying a field like a dead body,discarded and left to rot.” [5]		The theme of abandoned footwear and their "untold story" is explored in the novel, Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries by author Julie Ann Shapiro. In the novel her character, a photographer named Brad Lynberry, describes the phenomenon, "“The forgotten shoes are everywhere: littering the side of the highway, floating in the tide, going upstream with the Salmon, or occupying a field like a dead body,discarded and left to rot.” [5]
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	==References==		==References==
	~~<references/>~~		{{reflist}}
	http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/news/2004/08/02/news0003247.html Re-use your shoes \| fuk.co.uk ]		http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/news/2004/08/02/news0003247.html Re-use your shoes \| fuk.co.uk ]
	http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.htm		http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.htm

wikademia>Colonel Warden: re new shoes

2009-06-14T06:21:41Z

re new shoes

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	'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/featuresblogs/featuresblogsbarnett/3129176.Shoewatch_update/\|title=Shoewatch update\|\|date=13th August 2007\|author=Dave Barnett\|publisher= Bradford Telegraph & Argus}}</ref>		'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/featuresblogs/featuresblogsbarnett/3129176.Shoewatch_update/\|title=Shoewatch update\|\|date=13th August 2007\|author=Dave Barnett\|publisher= Bradford Telegraph & Argus}}</ref> Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22487390.html?dids=22487390:22487390&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+14%2C+1995&author=STEVE+HARVEY&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Only+in+L.A.&pqatl=google\|title=The Case of the Sidewalk with Two Red Shoes\|publisher=Los Angeles Times\|author=Steve Harvey\|page=4\|date=Dec 14, 1995}}</ref>

	It is possible that shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, simply last longer after being abandoned outdoors—leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.		It is possible that shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, simply last longer after being abandoned outdoors—leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.

wikademia>Colonel Warden: + citation

2009-06-14T06:11:03Z

+ citation

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	'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref>		'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref><ref>{{citation\|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/news_opinion/featuresblogs/featuresblogsbarnett/3129176.Shoewatch_update/\|title=Shoewatch update\|\|date=13th August 2007\|author=Dave Barnett\|publisher= Bradford Telegraph & Argus}}</ref>

	It is possible that shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, simply last longer after being abandoned outdoors—leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.		It is possible that shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, simply last longer after being abandoned outdoors—leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.

wikademia>Colonel Warden: + citation &c.

2009-06-14T06:06:33Z

+ citation &c.

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	'''Abandoned footwear''', ~~generally~~ a lone boot or shoe, is ~~frequently~~ noted in ~~ponds~~ and ~~along roadsides (particularly highways)~~. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.		'''Abandoned footwear''', such as a lone [[boot]] or [[shoe]], is often noted in [[pond]]s and by the sides of [[road]]s. It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.<ref>{{citation\|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WE&s_site=kansas&p_multi=WE&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10BF662BC5D8FA90&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM\|publisher=Wichita Eagle\|date=August 7, 2005\|pages=1E\|title=Shoe-icide - and other mysteries}}</ref>

	~~While the practice of publicly abandoning old shoes has been noted in multiple countries (including Great Britain it does not seem to have any set meaning attached to it~~ and ~~may be a simple form of imitation.~~

	It is possible that shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, simply last longer after being abandoned outdoors—leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.		It is possible that shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, simply last longer after being abandoned outdoors—leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.

wikademia>Colonel Warden: restore content &c.

2009-06-13T22:18:19Z

restore content &c.

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	'''Abandoned footwear''', ~~are~~ boots or shoes that are ~~left out~~ as ~~refuse~~.		'''Abandoned footwear''', generally a lone boot or shoe, is frequently noted in ponds and along roadsides (particularly highways). It is not known why old shoes and boots seem to be publicly abandoned more often than other articles of clothing, such as shirts or caps.

			While the practice of publicly abandoning old shoes has been noted in multiple countries (including Great Britain it does not seem to have any set meaning attached to it and may be a simple form of imitation.

			It is possible that shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, simply last longer after being abandoned outdoors—leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25-40 years outside.

			However, the opposite of this hypothesis is the commonness of obviously intentional shoe abandonment, such as shoe tossing, in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into shoe trees, over power lines, or over fences

			In popular culture, a fisherman hauling up an old boot, rather than a fish, is an old comic-strip joke.

			==See also==
			*Shoe tossing

			The theme of abandoned footwear and their "untold story" is explored in the novel, Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries by author Julie Ann Shapiro. In the novel her character, a photographer named Brad Lynberry, describes the phenomenon, "“The forgotten shoes are everywhere: littering the side of the highway, floating in the tide, going upstream with the Salmon, or occupying a field like a dead body,discarded and left to rot.” [5]

			The novelist describes the backstory of her novel, which offers much insight about the abandoned footwear from an art, societal and philosophical perspective. "In Southern California I noticed flip flops and running shoes left behind on the beach, the freeways, construction sites and parking lots and felt this uncanny urge propelling me to write about them. I couldn’t escape them, nor the unshakable sadness and loss I felt emanating from the shoes themselves. Why singular shoes I kept asking myself? Is it a Cinderella complex? Is this a poem I should write or a short story? I wrote them all and then one pivotal day I remembered a time as a teenager when my friends and I played with a Ouija board and a shoe moved by itself. It was this big aha moment! Of course, the shoes are haunted. Why didn’t I see it before? And that’s when I found Brad, my main character, the photographer who chronicled the shoes in the wake of his girlfriend’s uncertain death. In the singular shoes he saw, Jen-Zen, the eternal soul mate. He relived their love affair in search of answers as to why she died. Brad snapped pictures of the shoes and tried to say goodbye and get on with his life, but he couldn’t...the very shoes started to tell him something. When outsiders called his photographic odyssey nuts and others wanted to capitalize on it Brad believed most of all in his gut instinct telling him…there’s a message in the shoes…just believe…believe in yourself." [5]

			In a dejavu-like twist of fate the author notes that, "In the midst of searching for a publisher that a real life photographer, Randall Louis Hamilton (6) contacted me and mentioned having a shoe photo collection, proving that life sometimes is stranger than fiction. [7]

	==References==		==References==
	~~{{reflist}}~~		<references/>
	*http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.htm		http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/news/2004/08/02/news0003247.html Re-use your shoes \| fuk.co.uk ]
	*http://www.recycle.ubc.ca/littermain.html Litter Reduction Program - UBC Waste Management		http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/sneakers.htm
			http://www.recycle.ubc.ca/littermain.html Litter Reduction Program - UBC Waste Management ]
			Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries (Synergebooks, ISBN 978-0-7443-1391-8), http://www.amazon.com/Jen-Zen-Shoe-Diaries-Julie-Shapiro/dp/0744313910/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202509481&sr=8-1</p>
			Randall Louis Hamilton, http://www.oneshoediaries.com </p>
			Julie Ann Shapiro, Back Story of Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries, http://www.julieannshapiro.com/Backstory.htm</p>

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wikademia>PhilKnight: list for deletion

2009-06-13T21:25:54Z

list for deletion

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