India bus passenger arrested over smelly socks

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Police in India say they have arrested a man whose smelly socks caused a dispute between him and fellow passengers on a bus.

They told the BBC they had lodged a complaint against Prakash Kumar, 27, for "causing a public nuisance".

The incident occurred en route to the capital, Delhi, after Mr Kumar removed his shoes and socks.

The stench from the socks was so bad that passengers asked Mr Kumar to put them in his bag or throw them out.

But he allegedly refused, sparking a heated argument.

Passengers then forced the bus driver to pull over at a police station in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh where the complaint was lodged.

The Hindustan Times quoted Mr Kumar as saying that his socks had not been stinking, and that the passengers had quarrelled with him for "no reason".

Police told the BBC that Mr Kumar had been granted bail.

UglyAuntEsther on December 1st, 2017 at 15:20 UTC »

Smelly feet are no laughing matter. My ex-husband had some kind of foot fungus he refused to do anything about and the smell was atrocious. I would go to bed at night and he would be clear across the other side of the house and the minute he took his shoes off the smell would wake me up gagging. He would get his stinky foot juice all over our sheets and they would smell like rotting corpses, I had to wash the sheets every single day. Just gross and having to remember that just now is giving me PTSD.

Slayer_of_Ridley on December 1st, 2017 at 14:28 UTC »

Title's a bit misleading, the socks stank and the other passengers asked him to put the shoes on or put the socks in a bag. Then stink feet guy got riled up and started arguing so much they pulled the bus over.

LetMeSlideItIn on December 1st, 2017 at 13:18 UTC »

Let me take off my shoes and socks while on public transport. WCGW?