on the down side, things aren't getting any less strange in florida. on the plus side, this has nothing to do with nekkidness, having sex with your pets, or cramming food up your butt.
Thousands of shoes litter Palmetto Expressway
Work boots, slippers, sneakers and sandals -- thousands of them -- littered both lanes of the Palmetto Expressway near Miller Drive on Friday morning.
The thousands of shoes caused long traffic delays and a two-hour clean-up, state officials said.
According to Florida Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Pat Santangelo, thousands of pairs of used shoes mysteriously appeared at 7:42 a.m. on the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway between the Bird Road and Miller Drive exits.
Employees of the Florida Department of Transportation's Road Rangers service, which is meant to provide roadside assistance, managed to push all the shoes into one lane using large brooms.
A private contractor was hired to use a front-end loader to pick up the shoes by the dozen and load them into a large dump truck, Santangelo said.
''At this point, no one's claimed the shoes,'' Santangelo said.
Santangelo spent Friday morning driving through Little Haiti, searching for a charitable organization that would want to donate the used shoes to impoverished Haitian residents who are still suffering from the aftermath of the 2008 hurricane season.
If the shoes are claimed, Santangelo explained, the person responsible for the thousand-shoe mess will be charged for the clean up.
More
