Steven Bain and Steven Gawthrop would approach people in bars and clubs in Southport and buy the socks off their feet, claiming to be collecting them for charity. They would also take photos of the socks' owners and carefully keep track of their names and pictures. It later emerged that the men were foot fetishists and were hoarding the socks for their own sexual gratification.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southport_Sockman
Thoughts?
Um, I guess it's OK 😆 if they're into big, dinosaur type feet, I'm their guy😁
My first inkling of something being not quite kosher would be them offering to buy my socks. Why wouldn’t they just buy new ones? The next would’ve been them wanting to take my picture - just, no. And I’m never telling some strangers I’ve just met on the street any personal details whatsoever.
Having a fetish is fine. Using unsuspecting/non-consenting people to get sexual gratification is not. (You can only imagine what they did with those socks…)
Who were the idiots allowing them to take photos of their feet?
You could fall for tricks less obvious and more harmful.
It was legal so nothing harmful
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