Man accused of spraying woman's shoes with water

Maybe her feet stank

mmm sorry to be crass but i wonder if it was urine..?

He looks like a blowfish.

There are plenty of people who have foot fetishes as well as a high heel fetish...they story didn't mention what kind of shoes she was wearing. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there are also people who have "golden shower" fetishes, along with those various type of foot/shoe fetish and it could very well likely have been urine. did she see a syringe? Or did she see a stream of something liquid and assume it was in the syringe? The story says they're having the syringe the found tested.

Considering the guy had the photos of women's feet/shoes, I'm definitely going to lean towards that fetish...but it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't water on her shoes.

TAB~

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Angry Blonde, I think that in order to mistake what you suggest for a syringe with water, either the young lady would have to be extraordinarily inexperienced and naive or else the man must have been astoundingly under-endowed. Besides, she said the water was cold.

He looks like a microcephalic.

Dan, the thought occurred to me, too, although I'm no doctor. In any case, I think we can safely assume that he is mentally ill or impaired in some way.

Dude...you put salt in water. It's like, really, really, easy and you don't even need Mom's recipe!

Kosher salt or ionized?

Wait a minute: $75,000 bond? For a foot bath that the "victim" probably spends $150 a week for at her favorite spa?

Gimme a break!

It's (almost) funny. But since the guy is African-American, he gets a sentence and an impossible bond while a white college student--who might "reasonably" claim the prank as a fraternity initiation rite--would have his hand slapped. In the hypothetical scenario, I can see the cops chuckling and phoning the kid's mother to come and get him.

Grrrr.

Well I don't really think race had anything to do with it. I think it's just biological age where anything sprayed around you could be laced with Anthrax or something like that.

What he did seems harmless, but really, why would anyone do that?

Hey Rebecca,

I think you may be reading a little too much into this, although your point about the high bail is a good one.

The original article linked to states he attacked another woman at the library with a syringe back in 2000.

He likely needs psychiatric help rather than jail time.

I'm not sure what you're talking about Rebecca, nowhere in the article does it mention the race of the woman.

Rebecca, as I've commented below, I would NOT take this as an amusing prank if it happened to me. I would be really creeped out. True, the woman suffered no physical harm, although her shoes were probably wrecked. (And that's a piece of property worth about $75 to $100 destroyed, which is not trivial for a college student). More to the point, however, when someone you don't even know makes some physical act of aggression against you, it is very psychologically upsetting. A couple of times when I lived in Boston, where there are a lot of homeless mentally ill people, I would be walking down the street minding my own business when someone would walk up, scream something incoherent and throw a handful of shredded paper in my face, or grab me by the lapels and rant at me. It may have looked funny to other people, but I was NOT laughing.

Rebecca, as I've commented below, I would NOT take this as an amusing prank if it happened to me. I would be really creeped out

Sue,

Suppose the guy wanted to spray your foot, and then suck your toes?

In fact, didn't we try that once in Barbados when we were there together?

Ooops sorry, I forgot where we are...

Anyone reading this...please disregard...trex and I have some past history...not suitable for discussion on a family site

Jazzman, shame on you. The rituals of the Summer Solstice are sacred, and not to be discussed among the uninitiated. The Great Invisible Pink Unicorn might just reinstate the Curse of the Bambino on the Boston Red Sox for that transgression, which would be a pity after all we did to help the Sox win the 2004 series.

although her shoes were probably wrecked. (And that's a piece of property worth about $75 to $100 destroyed, which is not trivial for a college student).

If you think salt water will destroy your shoes you've obviously not walked through a slushy/salty parking lot in the middle of a Wisconsin winter. Yeah it makes annoying white rings around your pants and shoes but it comes right off.

You know how to get salt stains off shoes? Tell me more! However, this weirdo sprayed the water into her shoes, and probably soaked them, which makes leather shrink and get pretty unsightly.

trex @comment 5.7:

Agreed that this is a creepy occurrence but let the punishment fit the crime! Jeez. We can assume that the man is mentally disabled--possibly homeless, if he hangs out in libraries. Setting bail at $75,000 is not only unreasonable, but extremely unjust.

The last time I had to post bail for myself, it was 10% of the total fined. Of course, that was long ago and far away--when Texas penalized pot smokers, if found guilty, with one thousand years in the slammer. (Another travesty of justice, to say the least.)

Where is this man going to get $750???

Jail time is just going to make the guy far worse then he already is, he needs to see what caused him to do what he did in the first place as in a mental hospital, but not a jail. Thats not the cure.

Rebecca: Good point, but the object of the prohibitively high bail may be to keep him where they can find him until he undergoes a thorough psychiatric evaluation. Otherwise he'd probably just disappear back onto the streets. I agree with you and Tedd that jail time for a mentally ill person is absurd. Dr. Thomas Szasz, who claims to be some sort of libertarian, argues that mentally sick people should be left alone by society unless they commit crimes, in which case they should go to jail. There are two problems there, however -- first, prisons aren't designed or equipped to care for mentally ill people, and second, by the time the patient commits a crime, sometimes someone is dead who might still be alive if the patient had gotten timely treatment (Kendra Webdale, e.g., who was pushed under a subway train by a mentally ill man who had been in and out of prison for years). But Szasz is a bit of a nut case himself, who has also managed to do a lot of damage.

the object of the prohibitively high bail may be to keep him where they can find him until he undergoes a thorough psychiatric evaluation. Otherwise he'd probably just disappear back onto the streets.

trex,

That's what I've been thinking as well. It just may be the kindest thing they can do for him.

Salt Peter is a good one.

lol @ Salt Peter

Salt Peter! Good one.

This picture looks like I'm seeing him through the kind of peephole they have for security on apartment doors.

I think he looks like a squirrel with his cheeks full of nuts.

ooooh! Now that is reading between the lines!!! I like your version Lazarillo!

As I said....golden showers

Not my thing, but some people get off on it.

TAB~

Damn damn damn damn damn. That was so funny I just passed milk through my nose....assault...GOOD ONE Glinda!!!

Answer: That picture...

I wonder if this guy ever lived in NJ. He sounds an awful lot like the guy who once "mugged" my sister by running up behind her, knocking her to the ground and stealing her shoe. Just one shoe. Not even a sexy pump. Just a simple shoe.

Hmm, from what I had heard, Virginia Tech was a huge reversal of all that; if something like that happens again, there will be lawsuits, and universities don't want to be liable if one of the autistic kids snap.

Jivatman, unfortunately at my place of employment it is considered double-plus-ungood-badthink to suggest that the behavior of autistic students might cause disruption -- even after one was interrogated by the university police for standing in the middle of the hall screaming "I'm going to bomb this place" over and over again. And just try to explain a writing assignment to someone who can barely communicate in English. But don't dare tell anyone that it's anything but a blessing and a joy for all concerned.

You have a point about liability, but it cuts two ways, and we are also cringing with terror at the thought of discrimination lawsuits.

The guy is probably mentally ill, a type that turns up all too often at universities and make life miserable for the faculty and students.

Sue,

Yeah I hear you...guys like Ward Churchill.

Jazzman:

Why don't you defend this poor guy instead of referencing another (native American) victim of the system?

Jeez. Sometimes I wonder . . .

When I was a student at the University of South Florida in the late 80's we our own shoe guy at the library.

stealing her shoe. Just one shoe

Our guy had a similar thing, but he didn't mug them. He looked for girls who took their shoes off while studying, like you do when you tuck a leg under, then he stole a shoe. Just one.

Jazzman:

Why don't you defend this poor guy instead of referencing another (native American) victim of the system?

Jeez. Sometimes I wonder . . .

There's no question the man has some mental issues, and needs psychiatric help rather than jail as someone said. I too wonder why such a high bail was set, for what seems a minor offense.

The Churchill thing was a joke, but I don't see him as a victim, even if he is native American.

I think he's a victim of genetics... given his face...

Was she wearing pumps?

Tbone: GROOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAN!

While I would love to agree with you, you're response is filled with so many assumptions that I simply can't. While you speak from personal opinion and perhaps experience, your wording makes it seem like these happenings are all too common.

Jazzman, well I will admit that every university has a few faculty members whose behavior would get their @sses fired from any sort of private-sector job in a matter of minutes. My own department had a serial sexual harasser who finally got fired, but not until after years of complaints from numerous students and clerical staff, repeated hearings, repeated warnings, etc. etc. Part of the problem was that victims of harassment usually don't want the embarrassment of an official proceeding; they just want someone to talk to the offender privately and make him stop it. So it's hard to get them to go on the record with complaints, because inevitably it'll be her word against his, and he'll make it sound as though she was a slut coming on to him. But when the professor in question received a student at his office for a scheduled appointment clad only in his birthday suit, that was the last straw, and he was out the door.

As for the likes of Ward Churchill, well, the purpose of academic tenure is to insure freedom of speech, even if it is politically unpopular. Admittedly some people abuse that to spout inflammatory and irresponsible rhetoric, but it's the price that we have to pay for preventing Creationist groups from circulating petitions to halt research into evolutionary biology, for example.

Looks just like him, thanx for that link.

Do you suppose those are salt potatoes?

I'm guessing you just haven't been caught yet...

note to self: wear rain boots around winsome.

geez that was a poem, winsome.

Sorry, wrong link.

Corrected.

Holy cow. It says that the previous victim was "treated at an area hospital and released," which seems to imply that he actually jabbed her with the syringe. That is DEFINITELY no joke, in this era of HIV infection. I'm surprised he was still at large.