In Japan, in the southwestern city of Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu, authorities were puzzled by the mysterious case of missing shoes, taken under cover of darkness from an elementary school. Police suspected a human thief, but what they found was stoatally different.
Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera caught the furry culprit in action.
A weasel with a tiny shoe in its mouth was spotted on the video footage after police installed three cameras in the school in the prefecture of Fukuoka.
“It’s great it turned out not to be a human being,” Deputy Police Chief Hiroaki Inada told The Associated Press Sunday. Teachers and parents had feared it could be a disturbed person with a shoe fetish.
Japanese customarily take their shoes off before entering homes. The vanished shoes…
