What About Drug Shoes?

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
K

Keels

Junior Member
Feb 17, 2015
14
0
1
Alright, I don't know about this in other places, but here in Canada, when you see a pair of shoes hanging from a telephone wire, it means there are drugs being sold near by. So ever since I can remember, there has been a old pair of shoes hanging from the phone wire outside the back door at my church. WELL! We finally got them taken down when the local electric company came to do some work on the poles. So being that the shoes used to represent sin and stuff that's just not good, we have turned it into a challenge to come up with a way that we can make them into something good, to represent the new life and hope that Jesus gives us. Some of the ideas we already have are: ~ planting flowers in them and ~ creating an organization that collects people's old shoes and gives them to the homeless, women's shelter, or taking them on a missions trip.

We we are looking for more, unique and creative ideas of what we can do with these shoes to make something that was occe bad, and make it something new. Thanks in advance :)
 
Whatever the reason is for the shoes being hung there, it's all related to sin and things that are not good. In this case, we know that they're drug shoes :)
 
My older brother threw his worn-out sneakers over the telephone wires when he finally got a new pair. This was back many moons ago when we were poor and lived in the ghetto in Philadelphia. Other kids would do it, too. There was no reason for it other than my brother was glad he got new sneakers and hanging the old ones over a wire was just plain funny. :D
 
I know a man who was trying to quit smoking so he took snuff and sprinkled it in his shoes and wore it without socks(he said it absorbed into his skin like a nicotine patch),,,
 
iamsoandso said:
I know a man who was trying to quit smoking so he took snuff and sprinkled it in his shoes and wore it without socks(he said it absorbed into his skin like a nicotine patch),,,
Click to expand...

Oh... I get it. "Drug shoes". :rolleyes: ROFL!!
 
Why would a drug dealer hang shoes over a wire telling the police exactly where he intends to sell drugs? Wouldn't that be defeating his purpose? Isn't he trying to avoid the cops? :confused:
 
I wouldn't put it past some dunce to throw sneakers over a line to mark his drug dealing territory. But that's pretty stupid because the cops will pick him up in no time. I would think most dealers are a little more scrupulous. But who knows? The Bible says there's nothing new under the sun. :p
 
Guys. I don't know why people do it. It's a thing in Canada. Don't ask me, I don't do drugs. I'm looking for ideas of how to make them a good thing.
 
That's cool, sister. :) But I wouldn't keep the old shoes as who knows, they may have athlete's foot or something worse. Yuck! :p Maybe buy a flower planter in the shape of a sneaker like this one:

shoes-planter-4-500x588.jpg
 
where i grew up, a pair of shoes over a wire meant that someone had been killed. it was their shoes, that a friend tossed over the wire - no longer needing them, or "hey esé you forgot your shoes! ((tosses toward the heavens))"

i guess if there's a lot of drug-dealing, there might also be murder, so someone might make the connection. *shrug* seems like it means a lot of things to a lot of people. maybe just a prank - "ha! see if you can get your shoes back!"
 
So am I the ONLY ONE who is like..........Whaaaa??? Drugs got shoes?

(sigh, where is the Blond when you need her?)
 
putting flowers in them sound nice. Maybe you can make an army of flooes up the path to the door?
 
wwjd_kilden said:
putting flowers in them sound nice. Maybe you can make an army of flooes up the path to the door?
Click to expand...

I think putting scripture on them relating to how God Guides our Path and others that relate to feet and our path. Perhaps still have the shoes hanging somewhere where the scripture can be read...
 
To give them a new and productive life.... maybe you should baptize them. (But only if they understand why they are being baptized, and agree, wholeheartedly.)
 
I don't think you fully understand this. We don't actually know who the shoes belong to. Can't really baptize shoes.
 
Keels said:
I don't think you fully understand this. We don't actually know who the shoes belong to. Can't really baptize shoes.
Click to expand...

:eek: oh my.



But anyhow, now you got me thinking about putting a pretty shoe planter on my veranda. 1472431k1nv447liz.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back