Tasks / Dead Shoe Revival
Take a pair of shoes; artify them. Tie the laces together and throw them over a telephone line (or otherwise install them in public).
1 to 100 players
15 points
Level 1
In the zone of: The University of Aesthematics
Created by kettle fish
7 completed :: 31 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
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I wish I knew how to ask this in a way that sounded nicer, but - really? I've heard it too, but never run across anyone who seemed to know/use that code. I think it's pretty awesome, if true - at one point, I wanted to start an elite gang called The Ninety-Seven Jordans, whose territory would be signaled by (of course) 1997 Air Jordans.
The best drug-dealer signal ever:
help im a bear was apparently on a bus practicing cutting cards one-handed and had several people walk up to him and ask if he had anything for them. It appears there's somebody or somebodies in Minneapolis who uses that, of all things, to identify themselves to potential customers.
take a look at my praxis for the results of doing this task and the above...
i wish i could be more specific but i try not to hang out with too many druggers.
also, someone needs to fix the tab ordering in sf0, in every other forum the next tab order is submit, not cancel. ive lost massive posts here because my reaction after writing something is tab-space to submit, i forget to tab-tab-space in sf0.
We'll see if anyone's praxis attracts anyone looking for a fix or a fight!
ALSO: THANKS! for pointing out the tab-order thing. I daresay it's fixed!
(tab-space)
hey so ive never heard about the dealers in my city doing this but i have heard of alot of hispanic gangs in my city that throw the shoes on the line after they lose a soldier. just a thought
What the...? I mean, how does that work in practice? Do you have to keep throwing shoes while potential clients are watching? Or do you just have to keep standing near your thrown shoes? Or do you just decorate the lines around your drug shack with shoes?
That is a really old tactic drug dealers don't use any more because people are talking about it on a forum like this. We live in the age of cell phones. I used to be an addict and I never conducted a deal based off of signals like that. There's shoes over the wire right by my house and I never see blatant drug activity going on and I've lived here for years. When I was using I had to go a few neighborhoods further in the hood to get my shit.
Praxis
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you do realise this is a marker for drug dealers. the type of shoe and number mean the type and quality of dealer.