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May 15, 2012 04:00 pm PDT
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Moonshiners' Cow Shoes
The May 27, 1922 issue of The Evening Independent carried a story about moonshiners wearing "cow shoes" to trick revenuers -- rather than leaving suspicious footprints leading up to their secret stills, they'd leave innocent-looking hoofprints in the dirt and grass. The New Yorker's "Photo Booth" had a good snap of one of the shoes [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/vzK7Q3BvSyQ/moonshiners-cow-shoes.html
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