# Naked man molests shoe salesman with trout **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420 "2009-01-15T14:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/41 "2009-01-17T20:21:38Z")
This thread title makes me laugh every time I see it, which, me being sick, sounds like, “Ehhh…” But thanks for the laugh! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/42 "2009-01-18T04:06:19Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > BTW, what do you suppose the medical authorities should be testing these men for first – HIV, salmonella, or rabies? Not salmonella. Troutella. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/43 "2009-01-18T04:25:25Z")
Well, at least he went to the right place, it was “Bob’s Adventure Store”, after all. Quite an adventure for all concerned, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/44 "2009-01-19T15:30:09Z")
I don’t know if this guy was crazy. All right, let’s think about what has happened here. A shoe store, why would he pick a shoe store to attack? They smell nice in there, don’t they? And shoes aren’t supposed to smell nice! Am I the only one who has ever been struck by how UNNATURAL it is to have a room full of shoes and they all smell GOOD? And here he has the trout, and he’s already naked, the only logical thing to do was take it in there and try to stink the place up. It all makes perfect sense to me. That salesman was injured because he got in the way of the universe trying to correct itself. ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/45 "2009-01-19T15:51:14Z")
W00t! I made it to threadspotting! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/46 "2009-01-19T16:34:44Z")
> [@Aghris](#): > > W00t! I made it to threadspotting! 🙂 … and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/47 "2009-01-19T17:49:04Z")
> [@MisterThyristor](#): > > Well, at least he went to the right place, it was “Bob’s Adventure Store”, after all … and Bob’s your uncle. Granted, naked shoppers are an unusual tackle for trout to be sure, but sometime seine just isn’t an option. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/48 "2009-01-19T18:36:09Z")
What’s so strange about this? This sort of thing happens in Internet chat rooms all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/49 "2009-01-20T19:15:20Z")
> [@Aghris](#): > > “Together with a controller and a customer we forced him to the ground…” He hit with a sucker punch. They caught him with a left hook. He eeled over. It was a fluke, but there he was, lying on the deck, flat as a mackerel. Kelpless. [sub]Homage to _Wet Dreams_ by Kip Addotta[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/50 "2009-01-21T14:07:29Z")
> [@Aghris](#): > > “He didn’t wear a usual outfit, especially for this time of year”, was the logical observation of Van Doorn, who was helping a customer at the time. “In addition, he was holding a raw trout in his hand, out of which he occasionally took a bite. I asked him if he wasn’t cold, but he wasn’t”, told the salesman to the reporter. So he knew that something was fishy about the guy right from the start, eh? ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/51 "2009-01-23T17:22:41Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Just so I’m sure: the guy was taking bites from both the trout _and_ the victim? Everyone seems to have interpreted the story that way, but it’s not what the story says. If the sentence had read “in his hand he held a raw trout, out of which he occasionally took a bite,” then yes, that would mean he bit the trout. But the actual sentence, “he was holding a raw trout in his hand, out of which he occasionally took a bite,” means he bit his own hand. ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420/52 "2009-01-25T17:11:45Z")
Well, excuuuuse me, for my abysmal English. I would’ve thought that the context would relay the message, even though grammatically it may not have been fully correct. Maybe the Dutch original will clarify the missing bits more clearly for you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/naked-man-molests-shoe-salesman-with-trout/481420.md?page=2)