I got it. I was just remarking to my wife the other day how you never see those tangles of cassette tape alongside the road now.
Or streaming from the powerlines, glistening in the sunlight, from the kids who got frustrated that the deck had eaten other tape, and so cracked open the cassette, pulled the reel, and threw it back and forth to each other over the power lines.
I can remember kids tying the cassette tape across the street from street sign to street sign as they walked by. Tie one end, walk across the street, tie off the other end, and repeat it on the next cross-street. The drivers who had to get out and cut them seemed pretty nonchalant, like they sympathized with people whose tapes had gotten eaten.