Jan 2, 2009 1:26 am US/Pacific
Thousands Of Shoes Dumped On Miami Expressway
A Mystery Of Whom Discarded Thousands Of "Lost Soles" On The Palmetto Expressway
MIAMI (CBS) ―
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Thousands of shoes were dumped onto a Miami highway Thursday morning.
CBS
Thousands of shoes were accidentally dumped from a truck on the southbound lanes of a highway in Miami Thursday, causing significant traffic delays, CBS station WFOR-TV reported.
City workers with broom sticks and "Road Rangers" who come to the aid of stranded motorists took part in clearing a quarter-mile section of expressway where the lost shoes were the shoes fell from the truck earlier in the day.
Of the task clearing all the shoes that littered the road, Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Pat Santangelo said "there's just so many."
Two lanes were completely blocked during the morning rush hour before the plethora of shoes could be swept to the side of the road, WFOR-TV reported. A private contractor was hired to use a front-end loader to pick up the shoes by the dozen and load them onto a large dump truck.
It is still unclear where the lost shoes came from, but state police are reportedly looking for an organization that will donate the shoes to impoverished Haitian residents still suffering from the aftermath of the 2008 hurricane season, WFOR-TV reported.
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