Sannnie Bolas Theory

There's an odd tradition in Glasgow that I'm pretty sure must get replicated throughout the UK and the rest of the world wherever there are either overhead street telephone or lighting cables.

I speak of the curious sight of the pair of training shoes dangling in mid-air from the overhead cables for all the world to see like a left-over Christmas street light decoration.

Maybe they're up there as the owner has a particularly pungent pair of feet and requires vigorous outdoor airing of their shoes.

However my preferred theory is that whilst walking along the street a passer-by happened to spot a low flying bird of prey that was threatening small children and pets and they thought.... "I know, I'll take off my Nike's and fashion them into rudimentary bolas and using the skills of my forefathers knock that pesky predator from the sky".

Unfortunately, their forefathers being shipyard workers and not knowing much in the way of the hunting skills of the South American Gauchos obviously overlooked the overhead telephone cables in their attempt to prove their hunting manhood thus leaving the predator to go home unharmed, the sannies** to be left dangling and them having to hobble home shoeless.

Oddly you never actually see any real bolas hanging from these cables which can only mean that you don't find many Gauchos hunting in the Glasgow Maryhill area for large birds of prey.

**Sannies......Glasgow terminology for training shoes.