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A martial arts enthusiast pulls a vehicle with a rope connected to his eye sockets during a performance in Hefei, Anhui province November 30, 2009. Picture taken November 30, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily

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    Man's smelly feet trigger police raid

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    Mon Jul 9, 2007 12:08pm EDT
    A miner rests his feet in China a file photo. German police broke into a darkened apartment fearing they would find a dead body, after neighbors complained of a nasty smell seeping out onto the staircase. REUTERS/Stringer

    BERLIN (Reuters) - German police broke into a darkened apartment fearing they would find a dead body, after neighbors complained of a nasty smell seeping out onto the staircase.

    Oddly Enough

    The shutters of the apartment had been closed for more than a week and the mailbox was filled with uncollected mail.

    But instead of a corpse, they found a tenant with very smelly feet, asleep in bed next to a pile of foul-smelling laundry, police in the southwestern town of Kaiserslautern said on Sunday.
    Oddly Enough


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