In Berlin a local fox was exposed as the culprit behind a string of shoe thefts. Last month Christian Meyer, a resident of Berlin’s Zehlendorf neighbourhood, noticed that one of his new running shoes had disappeared from his porch, and he decided to investigate the theft.
If you’re missing a pair of shoes, they might have been taken by a red-tailed thief
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Meyer quickly learned that he was not the thief’s only victim, and a tip helped him catch the fox bandit red-handed with two blue flip-flops in its mouth. Days later Meyer spotted the fox again; he followed it into a thicket, where he crawled around for close to an hour. There he discovered the fox’s secret stash of more than 100 shoes: trainers, clogs, sandals and slippers in a range of colours and sizes.