Tourist shamed for refusing to take 'smelly' feet off seat

A female backpacker has become a social media pariah after she refused to remove her feet from a coach seat in Thailand.

"The smell from her feet was filling the whole bus. It was hot and made me feel sick, because her feet were next to my head," Narong Thaopanya, 21, wrote on Facebook on March 30 during a coach trip from Bangkok to Sukhothai province.

Mr Thaopanya – an army reservist – recorded a short video asking the young woman, who he believed was from France, to take her feet down form a seat's headrest due to a pungent odour quickly filling the bus.

She refused each of his requests and at one point appeared to stretch her toes in contempt.

"I asked her many times to put her legs on the ground and she would not do it. She just kept them in the air," Mr Thaopanya wrote.

"This woman's face was beautiful but she had no manners. "Somebody will have to use the seat and put their head where her dirty feet have been. People should be more respectful when they are visitors to other people’s countries."