abundance of abandoned shoes was found on Miami's Palmetto Expressway on Friday, 2 January 2009. Thousands of assorted shoes of all kinds and conditions were scattered across the highway, disrupting traffic for many hours. The shoes were collected for the charity Soles4Souls which redistributes shoes to needy people. This unusually large batch of shoes was expected to go to Haiti. See also Shoe tossing, shoes tied by their laces hanging from overhead wires Ghost shoes (traffic fatality memorial) References External links The Secret Language of Sneakers, Snopes.com Footwear Waste