The Washington Post reports that thousands of shoes ‘inexplicably materialized’ on a freeway. I’d love to see the video of that. Presumably there is video that shows bare pavement and then the mysterious materialization of shoes on said pavement, like a transporter beam in Star Trek. Or maybe we have the first attack of magical thinking in 2009.
“There were no signs of a crash, and no one claimed them,” reports the Post, apparently not realizing that a shipper that lost a load like that would probably rather take the loss than face the fine and inevitable environmental lawsuit related to spilling footwear on the freeway.
Things don’t ‘materialize’ unless Scotty is working the lever in the transporter room. They were probably dropped by a truck, which either didn’t notice or decided to get the heck out of there before they faced a fine, and then motorists noticed them because of the thumping as they drove. Nothing magical there. The only magic that comes out of this is the magic of charity — the shoes are being donated by the city to a charity which distributes shoes to people who need them.
