Jan 2, 2009 7:12 pm US/Eastern
Thousands Of Shoes Dumped On Miami Expressway
Thousands Of "Lost Soles" May Have Fallen From A Truck Driven On The Palmetto Expressway
Group Soles For Souls Will Be Collecting The Shoes To Give Them To Charity
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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Thousands of shoes dumped onto the Palmetto Expressway's southbound lanes near Bird Road.
CBS
Thousands of shoes were dumped accidentally from a truck on the southbound Palmetto Expressway after the Bird Road exit in Miami causing significant traffic delays Friday morning. Many of these shoes will now reach the feet of some of the neediest people in the world.
City workers with broom sticks and Road Rangers who come to the aid of stranded motorists were all taking part in clearing one lane of a quarter mile section of expressway where shoes fell from a 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."
The charity group Soles for Souls has intentions of using the shoes they can to donate them to some of the neediest people in the world. Meanwhile, FHP is trying to figure out where the shoes came from. If the driver comes forward, he will probably have to pay a hefty fee for cleanup costs.
Two lanes were completely blocked during the morning rush hour before they were all swept
to the side of the road. 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.
Authorities are investigating where all the "lost soles" came from.
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