Cops lick foot fiend

New York Daily News ^ | May 6, 2006 | BY ALISON GENDAR, KERRY BURKE and CARRIE MELAGO

[aculeus]

Falling to his knees on a subway train, a young Brooklyn man allegedly grabbed the feet of scores of female straphangers - kissing and licking them until the women screamed.

But last night Joseph Weir, 23, kept his mouth shut and let his lawyer do the talking as he was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court last night on charges of unlawful imprisonment and forceable touching.

The tall, thin, shy-looking suspect has already confessed to abusing at least 70 female straphangers in the past three years, cops said. The admission came after police busted him Thursday for allegedly violating a woman on a Queens-bound E train in lower Manhattan, the sources said.

The unidentified victim fought off the Licking Lothario near the World Trade Center station, and he was arrested a short time later, police said.

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"He would grab women by their ankles, then kiss and lick their feet. A real sicko," a police source said.

Sometimes he would take off with his victims' shoes, police said.

Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Rachana Pathak said Weir would corner a woman alone on the subway at night and bow to her while asking, "Can I date you? Can I be your slave?"

[Charles Henrickson]

You can tell I don't live in a big city--my first thought was, "What's a straphanger?" I figured it's pronounced "straffanger."

I know what you mean. I grew up in a big city (Chicago) and hanged on many a strap, but seeing that compound word there, unhyphenated and unspaced, made me do a double-take too. I was thinking either a town in Norway (like Stavanger) or a disease: "He died of a straph infection."

[mikrofon]

The local buses used to have poles to hang on rather than
straps, as demonstrated by the following podophiliac:

[jdm]

LOL!!!!

[festus]

Well at least Morris was decent enough to pay for his toejam.