This Little Stinker takes the Prize!

It wasn’t all sweet-smelling maple syrup in Vermont, this week, where the city of Montpelier hosted the 34th Annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest on Tuesday. Seven regional finalists aged between 7 and 15 paraded their most offensive footwear for a panel of judges that included a NASA chemical specialist and a Brown University professor.

And who won the dubious honor of officially owning the Stinkiest Sneakers on Earth? Seven-year-old Joshua Boothe of Utah, who walked off with a golden trophy, an all-expense-paid trip to New York, a check for $2500.00…and, oh yes: A one-year supply of Odor-Eaters.

As for Joshua’s prize-winning odiferous runners? They will be enshrined with past winners in Montpelier’s “Odor-Eater Hall of Fumes.”