This is the creepy moment a postman was caught on a doorbell camera ‘sniffing a girl’s shoes.’
In the shocking footage, the postman can be seen outside a flat shuffling through letters before posting them through the letterbox.
When a postman stops by a shoe rack outside an apartment, the ordinary footage of him going about his daily work takes an odd turn.
Then, bending over, he picks up a white trainer and seems to sniff it before walking away.
The event occurred yesterday at 11:25 a.m. at a residence on Balnagask Circle in South Aberdeen, Scotland’s Torry neighbourhood.
Mother of two Jade Mullen shared the video online and it has since been viewed more than 575,000 times, shared 1,000 times and received 900 comments.
She wrote: ‘I would just like to let everyone know just to watch out for this postman.
‘He then turned around to sniff my daughter’s shoes – what an absolute creep.’
One person commented: ‘Wow that’s very weird behaviour.’
Another said: ‘I hope you’ve reported this that’s terrible of him that’s very very strange behaviour.’
A Royal Mail spokesperson said: ‘We are aware of the footage circulating on social media.
‘We expect the highest standards from our posties and take any breach of those standards seriously. Local management is aware and is actively carrying out further enquiries.’
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: ‘We received a report of a man acting suspiciously in the Balnagask Circle area of Aberdeen on Wednesday, 28 August.
‘Enquiries were carried out and no criminality was established. Suitable advice was given.’
Notwithstanding the oddity of this practice, it is not illegal to smell someone’s shoes. However, it would make you ask yourself what this very creepy individual might do next. He could end up being a future child paedophile, he’s certainly showing the signs. Today it’s shoes, tomorrow it could be children’s underwear.
I suppose it’s not as bad as him scratching his backside and having a sniff. It would be even worse if he scratched someone else’s.
Postmen have a duty of care; they shouldn’t be sniffing a child’s shoe. He has betrayed this trust by participating in an activity that is, in fact, a fetish for anything having to do with children.
He made an active decision to behave inappropriately, in a public place while working in a professional capacity. This is behaviour indicative of someone who has no respect or regard for other people’s personal space or boundaries, and this sort of behaviour can escalate when not penalised.
There are a lot of people who will stick up for him, but how would you like it if the shoe was on the other foot? Pardon the pun.
Whether he did it on purpose or just out of bizarre kink, his life is over now that it’s been shared on social media. However, as a postie, you would think he would be aware that cameras are everywhere, capturing pictures.
Perhaps this is a new postal service that we don’t know about – record and sniff, quite literally.
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