Sly fox steals 100 shoes in Berlin, and he's not the first

[Judi Lynn]

By Mindy Weisberger - Senior Writer 6 hours ago

Wanted: Sole mate.



"Why did the fox steal my shoes?" sounds like the start of a brain-teasing riddle or an annoyingly viral song. But for people in Berlin, it was an existential question spurred by the knowledge that a local fox was the culprit behind a string of shoe thefts.

About two weeks ago, Christian Meyer, a resident of Berlin's Zehlendorf neighborhood, noticed that one of his new and expensive running shoes had disappeared from his porch, and he decided to investigate the theft, German news site Tagesspiegel reported.

Meyer quickly learned that he was not the thief's only victim, and a tip helped him catch the fox bandit red-handed (or red-pawed) with two blue flip-flops in its mouth, according to Tagesspiegel. Days later, Meyer spotted the fox again; he followed it into a thicket, where Meyer crawled around for close to an hour. There, he discovered the fox's secret stash of more than 100 shoes, "most of them just gnawed on a little," Tagesspiegel reported.

Meyer captured a photo of the thieving fox and its ill-gotten stash, which Tagesspiegel editor Felix Hackenbruch shared on Twitter on July 26. The shoe pile contained sneakers, clogs, sandals and slippers in a range of colors, shapes and sizes, though the most numerous shoes by far were Crocs.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Is Germany the Florida of Europe?

There was just a report out of Berlin of a naked guy chasing a wild boar who had stolen his laptop.

[Harker]

2. That's quite a haul.

He's no loafer.

[sl8]

3. That he took so long to catch suggests that he's a good sneaker. n/t

[Harker]

4. I'd bet his tongue was hanging out. n/t