Sam Miller, the BBC's former South Asia correspondent, is looking for the person who squirts poo on his and other people's shoes in New Delhi's Connaught Place. It's part of a scam – foreigners get a squirt of poo on their shoo when then aren't looking and then a shoe shiner down the road points it out and offers to clean off the poo, for a fee.
Only foreigners get squirted, it seems, and only those wearing closed shoes.
My epiphany came when I read the rantings of an American blogger, who described with pride how he pushed and swore at the shoeshine man, adding, "All in all, I feel pretty enlightened that I didn't make him lick it off."My sympathies were suddenly with the squirter and the shoeshine accomplice. I now sought out the phantom squirter, I wished to befriend him.
I wanted to find out his life story, how he learnt his trade, whether it is a father-son thing. How much money does he make on a good day? Has he ever been caught?
What are the mechanics of squirting, does he use a turkey baster perhaps, or a syringe? And, most of all, what does he tell his family that he does for a living?
Seeking Delhi's 'phantom squirter' (via Neatorama)
