So who lives in Portland, Oregon and is responsible for this?

I will write it up to the fact that there is just some things ordenary sane ppl dont know.
Worst of all is how thrends like this go from country to country, trees filled with pacifiers and locks put on some thing for some stupid reason.

I will remain on the sideline and just shake my head in disbelief. 🙄

PS. i think i saw some survey a while back that said that the town i live in ( Randers ) is the place in Denmark that buy the most sex toys.
 
hehe yeah i am noot comming up with this stuff 😀

I would like to take this chance and say that i am not the one to be in that statistic, though some of those toys are for use by singels i am not there.

PS. do like the 50 shades of grey kit 😀 i wold not be 😱 to learn most Danes are masochists with our sick need for some overseer ( the goverment ) to take care of us.
 
I am wondering if some funny guy / guys buy up these used on craigslist or somthing, i would imagine using new toys would make it expensive.
Or maybe just hang out at the local landfill on weekends, some ppl run around with metaldetectors, so i assume some might spend ther free time looking for rubber items at the landfill.
 
I thought those left coast types were into recycling? Seems a shame to have them go to waste?
 
...reminds me of "Wag the Dog" (Movie) where they throw shoes up a tree...


What I don't get: is this art? If yes, what shall it show? Is this a protest-action? If yes: against what?
Or is this just a combined "Revenge" from thrown away-guys who have stolen ex-GF's favorite toy?
..?
 
The whole thing seems to be some sort of spoof based on an odd but old tradition all across the United States and other parts of the world that has been going on for longer than anyone can remember called "Shoe Tossing" or "Shoe Dangling". The reporter for the BBC obviously didn't do any research to find out if there was a back-story to what was happening in Portland. Indeed, the reporter could have looked it up in the archives at the BBC. Some say it goes back to the military when recruits passing basic training or soldiers leaving the army would toss their combat boots over power lines near their barracks, sometimes first painting them orange or yellow. That's where the reference in the movie "Wag the Dog" comes from. Sometimes the shoes get thrown over tree limbs instead of power lines and they call them Shoe Trees. This has also been a long time tradition among High School kids to celebrate graduation. Usually they throw their sneakers that were used for gym class and otherwise carried home over their shoulders with the laces tied together. There are other reasons behind this tradition as well. In any case, the phenomenon of Shoe Tossing is widespread enough that it has it's own Wikipedia page.

As to why anyone would do this with sex toys I don't know but it may have been inspired by the recent ISIS Dildo flag created by UK artist Paul Coombs and flown at the London Gay Pride parade a few weeks ago. Tossing a shoe at someone is considered to be a supreme insult in Arab and Muslim cultures and so there may be a link with the ISIS dildo flag story.

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I didn't think those were cheap either, but I have to wonder how desperate one would have to be to sell USED sex toys on craigslist and meet with the person willing to buy them? Then how desperate someone has to be to want to buy USED sex toys from the previous owner/user and if either one might get the creepy feeling they may not make it home from the meeting and end up bound in a stranger's basement? There's almost more crazy people in real life than represented in the movies nowadays!

KuoH

kamkar1 said:
I am wondering if some funny guy / guys buy up these used on craigslist or somthing, i would imagine using new toys would make it expensive.
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kuoh said:
I didn't think those were cheap either, but I have to wonder how desperate one would have to be to sell USED sex toys on craigslist and meet with the person willing to buy them? Then how desperate someone has to be to want to buy USED sex toys from the previous owner/user and if either one might get the creepy feeling they may not make it home from the meeting and end up bound in a stranger's basement? There's almost more crazy people in real life than represented in the movies nowadays!

KuoH
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mike-k said:
Thanks for the Explenation...

It's not only BBC - all over Europe, "Journalists" and "Reporters" do not make any Background-Research anymore... :-/
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Thank you, actually. You jogged my memory about shoe tossing/dangling. When you mentioned Wag the Dog I remembered how when I was a kid there were always sneakers dangling from power lines a block or two away from a big public high school in my neighborhood and I'd always wondered what they were all about.
 
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Could it be some left over from a rocket launch?
 
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used to be these in my day..

 
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