POLITE, BUT TROUBLED:

Foot licker can't resist his sole temptation (Franci Richardson, March 16, 2003, Boston Herald)

A foot fetisher running rampant in southern New Hampshire has struck again, lavishing compliments on a school administrator about her ``beautiful legs'' and then trying to run his lips along her size 5 feet.

"He asked what size feet I had and then he said, `Can I touch them?' '' said the archvillain's latest victim, 38-year-old Catherine, who didn't want her last name used.

But the 50-something foot licker couldn't resist the wife and mother's gait.

As she put down a just-purchased case of Pepsi from Shaw's next to the passenger door of her Oldsmobile in the parking lot about 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, the heel whom police suspect of similar offenses struck again.

"He grabbed my leg down by my ankle and pulled my foot out of my shoe,'' Catherine said yesterday. "The way he was caressing my foot was absolutely stomach-turning. He was just very gentle, very nice, a very calm-looking person. He had a very soft, delicate and gentle touch. Oh creepy!''

Catherine, wearing a dress, said she had on 2- to 3-year-old no-name black flats and was trying to make sense of the sole attraction when she raced around to her driver's side door - only to find he had beat her to it and was holding it open.

"Here, allow me the pleasure of opening the door for you as you give me the pleasure of your legs this morning,'' she remembered him saying in a slight Australian accent. [...]

Catherine is one of several women in the Dover area who have reported similar bizarre assaults by a man who stands about 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighs between 160 and 170 pounds and has a crop of curly, reddish hair, said Dover police Sgt. Linda Anderson.

Here in NH, this constitutes a crime wave. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2003 11:14 AM