Re: Highway 50 shoe tree cut down

I guess some vandals cut down Highway 50 shoe tree near Middlegate, NV. Or maybe it was NDOT. No one seems to know for sure. I had a pair of old tennies up there, I miss them so

Perhaps it first succumbed to asphyxiation.

It's true!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110104/us_yblog_thelookout/famous-shoe-tree-chopped-down-by-dastardly-vandals

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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.

Story dated today and there are more than 1500 comments! Must have touched a nerve or stirred some latent American shoe fetish.
There are many "shoe trees" spread around the country-- what a strange ritual. Wonder how/why this behavior started and what the earliest recorded "shoe tree" was. Presumably started sometime after shoe laces were invented.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Another pathetic example of mankind not beeing able to leave well enough alone; he has to add his own abomination to mar the beauty of nature!

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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.