The Metro Detroit Foot Sniffer

On September 12th, 2013 during a segment on the show discussing about “creeps that you didn’t know were creeps until you already went home with them” a listener called in with a story. This listener talked about how he works in a landscaping/construction business and one day at work a stranger approached him. The stranger claimed that he was part of a fraternity and needed to go around and ask a random man if they could put their feet on his face to smell them and take pictures and video as proof to show his follow brothers in his fraternity. At first it was just a funny story to tell until another listener called in and said he also had a stranger approached him with a similar story asking him if he could smell his feet as well. It became apparent that it was the same stranger from the first story and they had just uncovered a story about a serial foot sniffer.

Shortly after the second caller the segment started to shift into an investigation into these stories about this stranger. Many other listeners called into the show telling similar stories about a stranger approaching them calming he was in a fraternity and needed to smell their feet. Some even had their own pictures and videos of their encounter with this foot sniffer and e-mailed them into the show. Eventually during the investigation the foot sniffer had just approached another listener at that same moment. Just listening to this ongoing discussion the listener turned the foot sniffer down and got away. After calling into the show telling Dave, Chuck, and Lisa about what had just happen the hosts asked the listener to go find him and ask him to call into the show. Sometime later in the show the listener called back and said he found the foot sniffer but the authorities had just showed up and started to frisk the foot sniffer and question him. A cop ordered the listener to get back in his car and drive away. As the listener was leaving he could hear the cop yell out, “We have the foot sniffer!”

Although it would seem as though the morning show had just helped in the capture of a creep walking the streets other news media liked the Detroit Free Press looked into this and reported that the whole Metro Detroit Foot Sniffer investigation by Dave, Chuck, and Lisa could have been a great ruse.