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United States: What weird fetish involves not allowing your feet to touch the earth? Isn't that the sort of loony direction Howard Hughes was heading before he popped his cogs?
For days now, the job at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County has been to follow the order from the White House through the Secret Service and down to the park workers:
The president's feet are not to touch the dirt...
...Yesterday, a big guy, who had been fixing serious pipe leaks in the county executive's building, was on the walkway unrolling wooden storm fencing that would create an alley for Bush to walk down.
When you get the fence up, what do you do?he was asked.
Cover the ground so his feet don't touch it.
Is that true?
My boss told me that. If he says so, it's true.
That sounds crazy.
It sounds like I get paid every week,he said.
Not to touch the earth - Newsday, 10th March 2004.
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