When shoes started vanishing from a Japanese kindergarten, the obvious suspect wasn’t a tiny furry thief. But lo and behold, a mischievous weasel was caught on camera mid-heist, swiping children’s slip-ons like a pint-sized sneakerhead. Who needs a cat burglar when you’ve got this sneaky critter in town?

Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten when security camera catches weasel in the act