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Template:No footnotes Abandoned footwear, are boots or shoes that are left out as refuse.

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-'''Abandoned footwear''', generally a lone boot or shoe, is frequently noted in ponds and along roadsides (particularly highways).{{Fact|date=March 2009}}
+'''Abandoned footwear''', are boots or shoes that are left out as refuse.
-Shoe abandonment is sometime intentional, such as [[shoe tossing]], in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into trees, over [[power line]]s, or over fences
-In [[popular culture]], a [[fisherman]] hauling up an old boot, rather than a [[fish]], is a [[cliché]] [[comic|comic-strip]] [[joke]].
 ==References==
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-*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.recycle.ubc.ca/littermain.html Litter Reduction Program - UBC Waste Management