Has anyone seen Dexter Fishpaw recently?
In news from KEYE TV in Austin, Texas, which sounds more like a scene from John Waters’ 1981 film Polyester, it appears that a serial “foot stomper” has been “aggressively” stomping on women’s feet all around Austin. As of this writing, the suspect remains at large.
According to various police reports filed by dozens of women, mostly in the South Austin area, the foot stomper has targeted female victims who were alone waiting for a bus (or in at least one case, on a bus), when the foot stomper (who uses a bicycle to make a quick getaway), goes into action. One victim, who wanted to remain anonymous detailed her bizarre encounter with this mean-ass, Texas foot stomper:
He started touching my foot with his foot and saying “footsie, footsie” and he got more and more aggressive and it startled me. I yelled at him to stop and he again started laughing and then he rode away on his bike.
Another woman told her tale to KEYE TV:
It happened to Kerry Kovacik around 4:30 one afternoon. She was catching the bus at Riverside and Congress when she says a man on a bicycle, stopped next to her and stomped hard on her foot.
“I immediately pushed him off of me and asked him what the F he was doing and he said this was normal for him and just casually rode off and then looked back and smiled,” says Kovacik.
A reddit thread details many of the attacks, and posts a photo of the alleged Austin foot stomper. I can’t imagine that it will be too long before this guy is caught by authorities.
I don’t know about you but this behaviour certainly sounds like it might be the result of excessive glue-sniffing. But that’s just me and my B-movie imagination speculating on this strange case of life imitating art. Yikes.
Dexter Fishpaw (played by acton Ken King) getting off by stomping on feet in a scene from ‘Polyester’
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
The nose knows: John Waters’ brilliant ‘Odorama’ gimmick in ‘Polyester’ remembered