Nabbed for bus stink

INDIAN police arrested a man whose stinky socks caused a showdown on a bus as his fellow passengers protested against the pungent odour, an officer said at the weekend.

The man removed his shoes and smelly socks on a bus going from the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh to New Delhi, police said.

Other passengers protested and asked the man to put away the offending socks or throw them out. The man refused, sparking a heated confrontation that forced the bus driver to stop at a police station in Una district.

“He was arrested on charges of causing public nuisance,” Una police chief Sanjeev Gandhi said.