Shoes on high voltage cables
Aside from birds, you have probably also seen a pair of shoes on a high-voltage cable before. Or on some other kind of cable hanging over a street somewhere. One day nothing is wrong, and the next day you open your curtains and suddenly find yourself looking out at a pair of sneakers waving in the wind from a high-voltage cable. Why does that happen so often?
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6,000 pairs of shoes
You may not see them very often in the Netherlands, but in the American metropolis of Chicago you can see shoes hanging in many places. Between 2008 and 2015, the municipality had to remove no fewer than 6,000 pairs of shoes from the cables!
Who do you think is responsible for throwing those shoes? Continue reading quickly.