Man put on probation for sneaking into neighbors’ homes to smell their shoes

He wanted to put himself in their shoes — literally.

A man in Greece was given a suspended one-month prison sentence for sneaking into his neighbors’ homes at night and smelling their shoes.

The 28-year-old sniffer, who told the Thessaloniki court he couldn’t explain his foot fetish, was in essence put on probation and ordered to seek therapy.

He went on to explain that the unusual act did cause him plenty of embarrassment — and it was not his intention to harm anyone or break the law.

Neighbors testified to the fact that he never showed any signs of hostile behavior.

The perpetrator was arrested in Sindos, about 9 miles west of Thessaloniki in northern Greece on the early morning of Oct. 8.

A neighbor, who had left his family’s shoes outside his house so they could air out, found the man sniffing them.

This wasn’t the first time he had been caught in the act.

In the past six months, three similar incidents occurred, even though neighbors had asked the man’s family to intervene and get him to stop sniffing their footwear.

With Wires