Thousands of Shoes Appear on Miami Freeway

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Florida, if the shoes fit, wear em - Bush is YOUR FAULT!

Washington Post:

Thousands of Shoes Appear on Miami Freeway
Miami Herald
Saturday, January 3, 2009; Page A05

MIAMI, Jan. 2 -- Thousands of work boots, bath slippers, tennis sneakers, beach sandals and even roller skates all inexplicably materialized Friday morning on the Palmetto Expressway, disrupting traffic for hours, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

...A private contractor was hired to pick up the sea of soles and deposit them at an empty field, where a Nashville-based nonprofit group, Soles4Souls, is planning to pick them up Monday. Soles4Souls, which has distributed millions of pairs of shoes around the world, will ship the massive batch of shoes by truck to a processing facility in Alabama. There the organization will decide where to distribute them.

...Santangelo said that no witnesses had come forward but that those responsible would pay the cost of cleaning up the mess. "It's not cheap," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202326.html

Is this a spontaneous protest? Will we see more?
Is this a new form of "freeway blogging"?

Here's a slideshow from the Miami Herald showing an endloader working on them,
and other pictures showing that this really was a blizzard of shoes.
There were even roller blades in the mix:

http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/834846.html

[happygoluckytoyou]

1. AHA !!! We have found a cache of IRAQI REPORTER WEAPONS OF ASS DESTRUCTION !!!

[sce56]

2. While they did not find those responsible for tossing the shoes surveillance video does show the

target of those shoes



While they did not find those responsible for tossing the shoes surveillance video does show the