Can you ever have too many shoes? Well, one burglar in Newark, Delaware doesn’t think so. After Christmas, the unidentified man broke into a series of homes, stealing only worn footwear and photographs of its owners. Baffled victim Justin Coolihan could only speculate when interviewed by local news reporters: “God knows what he’s doing with all of our shoes and pictures at this particular moment.” Well, I think we could hazard a guess on that one. A bag of several hundred work boots, trainers and shoes have since been found abandoned in a creek in Maryland and police are now working to identify whether or not these are the light-fingered fetishist’s dumped loot. It’s not yet clear whether the shoes’ former owners will now want to be reunited with their “used” footwear.

Photo courtesy of Newark Police.