Another Shoe Mystery
You probably have heard about the feet that keep washing up in Vancouver.
Now Miami has a similar problem – without the feet.
Thousands of work boots, bath slippers, tennis sneakers, beach sandals, even pairs of in-line skates, all were dumped on a Miami expressway on Friday around 8 a.m., disrupting traffic for hours.
A private contractor had to be hired to pick up the sea of shoes.
Nashville, Tenn.-based nonprofit Soles4Souls, which distributes about 3.9 million pairs of shoes around the world in the last four years, is planning to pick them up on Monday.
”We throw nothing away. Right now, they’ll probably go to Haiti,” Elsey said.
Still no word on how they got there, although it’s becoming a worldwide Internet story.
One of the most obvious explanations: It’s a protest against President Bush, a reference to his recent shoe-dodging experience in Iraq.
The mystery remains.