[Vision2020] Some Heel Fouls Freeway With Shoes

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (January 3, 2009) Spokesman Review.

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Some heel fouls freeway with shoes

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Thousands of shoes were dumped on the Palmetto Expressway, causing 
significant traffic delays in Miami on Friday.
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MIAMI – Flying shoes are back in the news.

This time, the story is about thousands of used shoes that mysteriously 
ended up on a Miami freeway early Friday morning.

The culprit: The Florida Highway Patrol wants to know.

Police said thousands of work boots, bath slippers, tennis sneakers, beach 
sandals, even pairs of roller blades, all inexplicably materialized 
shortly before 8 a.m. on the Palmetto Expressway, disrupting traffic for 
hours.

A private contractor had to be hired to pick up the sea of soles and 
deposit them at an empty field.

Nashville, Tenn.-based nonprofit Soles4Souls, which has distributed about 
3.9 million pairs of shoes around the world in the past four years, is 
planning to pick them up on Monday.

News of the discarded shoes in Miami traveled fast over the Internet as 
Web sites all over the world got wind of the story.

Some people e-mailed the Miami Herald with what they believe was the most 
obvious explanation: It was a protest against President Bush, a reference 
to his recent shoe-dodging experience in Iraq.

The mystery, however, remains.

FHP spokesman Lt. Pat Santangelo said no witnesses had come forward, but 
that those responsible would be charged to clean up the mess.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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