Vandalism, Art, or Insanity?
By Barrett Chase on Mar 16, 2009 in Photos, Weird Stuff
Taking advantage of the nice weather today, I went for a walk in Leif Erickson Park, where I found several of these “installations” for lack of a better word. If you can’t quite make it out, these are eggs stuffed into pantyhose and thrown up into a tree.
At first, I thought maybe these were plastic Easter eggs and maybe they contained clues or treasure maps inside of them. But no, upon further inspection, they were real eggs.
One pair of pantyhose contained not eggs, but cups of Yoplait yogurt. The cups appeared to be unopened.
So the questions I asked myself were: “Is this supposed to be vandalism? Is it supposed to be art? Or is this the by-product of insanity?”
If it’s art or vandalism, well, I don’t get it. So I guess I have to go with insanity. What do you think?
It think it is art, vandalism, AND insanity. I also think it is an awesome and inexplicable act of randomness.
Is this some variation on the “old shoe” trick? That’s where you see a pair of old shoes in a tree and it’s supposed to signal it as a place where you can buy weed.
In my various neighborhoods in MPLS, the shoes-on-the-powerline thing indicated a place to buy crack.
These were in the Rose Garden, by the way. Right next to the gazebo where people get married. So who knows…maybe it’s some bizarre Scandinavian wedding rite.
Those nordic types can get freaky!
Weeeiiiirddddd….
I hope you get an answer.
I was always kind of partial to the shoetree at the U. Could you get crack there?
Call me a cynic, but it looks like garbage to me.
Crap. That’s where I got married.
Maybe someone put a voodoo curse on you.
Wouldnt be the first time.
I thought the shoes in the tree thing was a gang-related ritual….your first “cap popping”, the first time you “ice” someone, the first time you overuse “quotes”….
Snopes.com says: “Theories as to what these shoes signify abound, but, contrary to what one hears, there’s no one right answer.”
How about shoe tossing? Or maybe shoe trees of the Mojave? It all reminds me of Bubblegum Alley.
….mmmmmm….eggs…yogurt…pantie hose…new Burrito combo, si?
ew.
rp gauntlet
Y’all sound as if you’ve never seen eggs in pantyhose hanging from a tree before. You need to get out more. Why when I was a boy…
Also, this shows that PDD could use a new category for postings: Mind F**ks.
left there by the dairy fairy