Expelled for going barefootSourced
A college sent him away for refusing shoes.
He walked north barefoot anyway.
New Zealand conservationist Stephen King was expelled from Bible College after six months because he refused to wear shoes. He then walked barefoot from Christchurch to the top of the South Island, crossed by ferry, and continued walking on the North Island before hitchhiking home.
Leaving college
did not change his footwear.
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