Enough gab! Let's do some science.

Hanging on an electric line near Walgreens at 39th and Broadway is a pair of enormous athletic shoes (trainers). They look like they fit somebody about 6' 6" tall.

Step 1. Assume the line is 25 feet high.

Step 2. Some Mudcatter who is very tall should weigh his athletic shoe.

Step 3. Now he should weigh the shoe when it is saturated with water.

Step 4. Report data to Mudcatters

Step 5. Mudcat physicist will figure out with how much force that shoe will come down, perhaps on somebody's baby, when the shoelace finally breaks. Do it in both metric and Christian systems.

Then shoes on wires won't seem so funny.