Powerline Codes: Dangling Nikes signal meaning: Here be crack whores

"'The tennis shoes hanging up there mark drug areas,' the worker says. 'It's a sign to those who are 'in the know' that drugs are available for sale in that neighborhood.' He goes on to explain the alleged meaning of yoyos and deflated helium balloons.

'That meaning is a lot darker,' he says. 'Yoyos mean that sex is for sale in the area, and if a balloon is tangled in with the yoyos, that means both sex and drugs are for sale.' He explains that the color of the yoyo indicates the ethnicity of the person offering sex."

(ballooned from cynical-c)
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