European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Columns topsides of info by Tony Nauroth newspaper editors love tripping Light fantastic by John Windrow staff columnist Why did you break into the House the detective to tickle he did you take anything i stole the fiend thus ended the celebrated Case of the foot tickling Bandit in the associated press reported that when police went to the thiefs House they found a closet full of no Matching women he want wearing them dont get any funny the lad just liked to break into women tickle their feet until they and make off with a single this behaviour should win him honorable mention in some treatise on maybe  Call it the Cinderella i Hope foot fetish sounds so drab and newspapers Are Ever on the Lookout for colourful Bandit they break up the humdrum Parade of air plane failing arms control summits and accounts of swindlers stealing the taxpayers hard earned Money that fill the More often than the who have a hand in composing headlines also have a say in which stories get into the the average editor would much rather swagger into the local tavern after his shift and show the bartender a newspaper with police search frantically for foot tickling Bandit across the top Page than Reagan still hopeful on arms and who can blame every idiot child knows that the chances of an arms Accord Between the United states and the soviet Union Are exceedingly and that even if one is it will merely dictate the amount of increase in nuclear not a but who knows when the foot tickling Bandit May strike next newspaper life has been Sweet lately for there has been a wealth of exotic Bandit before the foot tickler we had the polka Dot police in Are looking for a robber in Blue polka Dot stars and stripes fearlessly reported it seems when the robber pulled his pistol out of his trousers in a convenience store in two women clerks noticed he was wearing polka Dot women Are More fashion conscious than men and they notice these they obviously were More concerned with style than the who at last reports remained at Best of All was the kissing Bandit of Atlantic this was the Type of Story that headline writers fight a 22yearold woman would pose As a prostitute and somehow drug her victim by pushing a foreign substance into his Mouth with her Tongue while she kissed when the Man she was gone and so was his everyone loves a Femme Fatale and this Story had everything Money and illicit sexual she was a knockout said the stripes my old newspaper in Texas was very big on icehouse Bandit in South an icehouse is a combination Beer dance Pool grocery bait shop and gambling they also sell there Are hundreds of the Beer drinkers and layabout find them the bandits find them practically so we were never at a loss for an icehouse Bandit my news editor always demanded that the police reporter find an unusual Angle in these like any Good he was thinking in terms of the newspaper made a great Deal of Hay out of one utterly uneventful ice House when the Alert reporter discovered that the Felon whistled at the owner and get Over in the the headline said police in search of whistling this was Good for several where is the whistling Bandit whistling Bandit strikes no clues in whistling Bandit even better was the Man who had his hair in curlers when he robbed an ice House a few weeks he was never but the paper had a wonderful time with the Sissy Sissy Bandit terrorizes ice East Side fearful of Sissy Sissy Bandit tougher than he one Story last month was More police in arrested a Man who had an uncontrollable urge to stomp women in mixed up right but i aint no bad the Foo stomper told that All Well and but there was no account of his having stolen stripes played it straight with a headline about his foot stomping pretty Good but not i know what my old Texas editor would have he would have argued quite logically that anyone who would stomp innocent women feet must have stolen something at some time in his foot stomping Bandit beats cops give june stripes Magazine