Reuters news agency quoted a local media (Kenya Times) report on Saturday March 6, 2004 that a smelly Kenyan villager who had not bathed in 10 years was stripped and scrubbed clean by neighbors sickened by the stench. Four neighbors swooped on the 52-year-old man in rural western Kenya, tying him up with a rope before washing him in public. It took four hours to clean the man, whose body was also scoured with sand to remove a thick layer of filth. The man, a bachelor, promised to wash once a day and hopes to find a wife.
