Fox Steals 120 Shoes in Germany

by Jordan Yerman | June 15, 2009 at 08:45 am
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This is fox news: news about foxes. For the past year, the German town of Fohren was terrorized by a shoe thief... in the dead of night, residents' shoes would be stolen. Over the course of a year, over 120 shoes vanished, never to be seen or heard from again.

They weren't taken in pairs, either, so people were left with a single shoe, which of course they couldn't use- that added insult to injury. However, a forestry worker cracked the case wide open, discovering a cache of stolen footwear in a fox's den. A female fox (vixen, footwear femme fatale) had abducted the boots, sneakers, and flip-flops, but to what purpose, only the foxy footwear fiend knows...

The bushy-tailed culprit, believed to be a vixen with a family of cubs, is still at large, and locals have two explanations for her kleptomania. Either she amassed them as toys for her children, or she simply likes collecting shoes, or both.

Actually, that's three explanations. The fox has not been named, but Spiegel Online has already started calling her Imelda, after Imelda "The Steel Butterfly" Marcos,  the footwear-loving former First Lady of the Philippines.

The foxy footwear thief is still at large.

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jazzyzazzy

Give me my choos back please.

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harringtola

;-)) This put a smile on my face and lifted my spirits for today.

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Monte

Cute story. Wonder if she is a relation to a fox over in England who's picture I seen one time, strolling through a shoe store.

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