Police mistake smelly feet for body

Updated: 16:27, Tuesday, 10 July 2007

When neighbours complained about a bad smell coming from a darkened flat, police in the southwestern German town of Kaiserslautern were prepared to find a dead body.

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Kaiserslautern
Police solved the smelly mystery in this southwestern German town

When neighbours complained about a bad smell coming from a darkened flat, police in the southwestern German town of Kaiserslautern were prepared to find a dead body.

Instead, they just found a man sleeping with smelly feet and a stinky pile of laundry.

The mistake was made because the scene had all the signs of a tenant who had permanently moved to a 'big flat in the sky' - closed shutters and a letterbox full of uncollected post.

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