why do people hand shoes from power lines?
484644
I do not know. I think it is something that mean kids do to other kids, simply because they can.\n\nTake their shoes away, and toss them up there.
868037
It's static electricity from your shoes.
803267
(Embarrassed) things happen, ya know?  Like a person leaves a pair of shoes on top of the car, then drives off without noticing.  They don't fall off together -- one on 27th Street, the other on 54th.  So, that accounts for two.\n\nOr, maybe a heel breaks.  You take off the darn thing and throw it as far as you can in frustration -- only to realize it's very hard to walk in one high heel.  So you leave the other on the sidewalk, where it is, since you can't find the other one anyway.\n\nKids in snugglies (on their parent's back) often lose little shoes -- again one at a time.  The parent walks on, and there's that little shoe, left in some street corner.\n\nLost shoes are really depressing.
747999
They don't its probably counted as a community service if they are putting lights in trees...
323267
Once in Colombia, it was a scorching hot day, and there was these homless kids on the street and they had no shoes and the sidewalk must have been burning their feet because they had blisters all over their feet, sooo I took my shoes off and my mom took her shoes off and we gave them to the homeless kids. Then we climbed quickly into the car because we didn't want to burn our feet!!!! That is probably the nicest thing I have done for a stranger!
456231
Because they are not grounded (i.e. they are making contact with nothing but the line) the electicity doesn't flow through their bodies. \nI lived on a farm as a kid and when we were wearing rubber boots we could touch the electric fence without getting zapped for the same reason: the rubbed didn't conduct so we weren't grounded.
1119415
I think this might have something to do with your childhood. Did your parents or caregivers not give you the sneakers you wanted? Or, did they have to last a long time? If so, your current behavior might be compensating for what happened to you in the past.\n\nI don't think this compulsion is harmful, but it might get that way if you go into debt to buy new shoes.
165399
not neccessarily, it really depends if your wearing shoes or not. of course your asking, how do i verify this?\n\nwell their is this thing called conductors and instulators. conductors means current can go through and insulators means it can't. the reason why humans get charged up because their friction causes electrons to build up in their body.\n\nso basically, touch someone else for fun and you might verify that shock.
1137609
there is insulation on the wire...........
31663
Of course.  Imagine a very low frequency- going up an escalator.  For every inch the escalator goes up, you and your foot goes up exactly one inch.  This means the shoe transmits all the energy at a very low frequency.  Now imagine a very high frequency- like the shock from heel strike while running.  With shoes on, some of this energy is absorbed by the shoe instead of being transmitted to your foot.  \n\nThus, the shoe is a low pass filter (passes low frequency better than high frequency).
652321
why are you going to steal his shoes???
501055
Probably like a Foot Locker or something like that.
14286
There are many reasons. Asthetic-the sight of dirty, smelly shoes is unattractive to some, and many choose to "hide" their shoes essentially in the bowels of their closet/room. Convinience-Many people know that at any moment, they will have to walk outside or answer the door, and prefer to avoid the extra work (which is also another factor, Laziness.) Probably the most obvious reason is a lot of these shoes you think should be left off are sparkling, germ/dirt-free accessories which only touch 1 square block of pavement, the gas/brake pedal on a car, and that person's alternate sterile/comfortable environment. Simple, we do not see our shoes as anything different than gloves, a coat, winter hat, that should be put away in its proper place once inside.
1003548
No, that would be illegal. You are in a public access place why would people want to risk that?
7133
Shoes & clothes.  Synthetics, especially, accumulate charge as you move around.
687259
I do it sock sock shoe shoe. No particular reason why, and I don't see any advantages between methods.
93370
Under average conditions a power line carries current to \nan appliance designed for the voltage . Cross country power lines operate for supply to cities at very high voltages and if dropped into the salt water would complete the circuit to ground overloading the circuit causing a circut breaker to disconnect .if the breaker fails the \n"short circuit" would overload the supply equipment and\nburn it out. The ultimate breaker may also be a fuse.