thousands of shoes block miami traffic

[Amby 490]

MIAMI — Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway causing significant traffic delays.

The Florida Highway Patrol received the report during rush hour Friday morning, Lt. Pat Santangelo said. A private contractor brought a front-end loader and a dump truck to the half-mile stretch of highway. Workers were able to clear at least one lane after a short time by sweeping all the shoes to shoulder, but delays were expected to last until all the shoes could be removed.

Santangelo said the shoes appear to be used, and most were tied together in pairs. He says he's looking for a charity to take the shoes, rather than sending them to the dump.

Santangelo says he's not sure where the shoes came from. There were no signs of a crash, and no one stopped to claim them.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475209,00.html

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Amby - I told you NOT to dump your shoes there

[Amby 490]

sorry I was doing some new year cleaning

[mawilson 2,133]

Another Muslim protest in Florida?

[Ling Ling 22]

Another Muslim protest in Florida?

The guys on the plane are probably pissed that they missed the big shoe-in.

On a related note....someone sent me a flash video game where you have to hit Bush with a shoe.

He may not be one of my favourite presidents, but I'm not gonna waste time on a stupid game....geesh.

[Amby 490]

Another Muslim protest in Florida?

dork

[Ban Hammer 13,349]

was gwb in florida?

[Amby 490]

UPDATE-ish

MIAMI — A U.S. charity group has stepped forward to collect thousands of shoes mysteriously dumped on a Miami-area highway and will send them to the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti.

Soles4Souls, a Nashville, Tennessee-based charity, is sending representatives to Miami to collect the shoes. The group will distribute them to people in Haiti, according to a statement.

The Florida Highway Patrol said thousands of work boots, bath slippers, tennis sneakers, beach sandals, even pairs of inline skates, inexplicably materialized Friday morning on the busy roadway. Traffic was disrupted for hours.

A private contractor was hired to pick up the sea of soles and deposit them in an empty field. The investigation into who discarded the shoes continues.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475666,00.html