Foxy Pair Of Pumps

Kick off your high heel sneakers, it’s party time. A German fox is reported to have a shoe fetish:

A female fox has been identified as the perpetrator of a year-long shoe-stealing scheme in the idyllic town of Föhren in the hills of western Germany. For months, residents had been noticing that their slippers, boots, and sneakers were mysteriously disappearing from their doorsteps and back porches.

The case was cracked when a forestry worker stumbled upon an astonishing scene in the woods: dozens of shoes lay strewn on the forest floor surrounding a fox’s den. Even more were discovered inside!

“We found 86 shoes in the den and a further 32 in a nearby quarry where they like to play,” a local count, Rudolf Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, tells SPIEGEL ONLINE, referring to the foxy mama and her cubs. “That includes 12 or 13 matching pairs of shoes.”

We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are not at all convinced that the fox, regardless of her “vixen” status, is the real culprit here. We rather suspect that the snakes are trying to frame her for the criminal acts. We have had our eye on the snakes for quite a long time because of their shoe fetish.

We would urge the residents of Föhren to check their credit card statements. This looks like a bit of misdirection and a perfect chance for a sidewinder to score a pair of Manolo Blahniks with a stolen credit card.

(H/T and thanks to our friend JAJ for the link to the story.)