Macon Telegraph | 09/19/2006 | Police investigating ‘bizarre’ foot kissing incident at Perry Wal-mart — Gak! This should more than amuse a few of our overseas readers.

About 5 p.m. at the Perry Wal-mart at 1109 St. Patrick’s Drive, an 80-year-old female shopper stumbled upon the man who was sitting in the floor of a store aisle that houses curtains, Perry Police Capt. Heath Dykes said.

The woman apologized for stepping on the man’s fingers, Dykes said. The man then said he was participating in a religious ritual and asked for her help, Dykes said.

The woman, now alarmed, complied with the man’s instructions, Dykes said. The man had the woman stand on his hands and then spit, Dykes said. The man also began to lick the woman’s feet, Dykes said.

Jesse James, a loss prevention officer for Wal-mart, walked up on the strange scene -recognizing the man from a photo from the Americus Wal-mart warning about the man for similar incidents there, Dykes said.

The theft prevention officer confronted the man, who told him that he was performing a religious ritual and then the man fled, Dykes said.