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Riyadh Season Hosts Legendary Costume Party

Riyadh Season hosts a costume and cosplay event in Boulevard Riyadh City and Winter Wonderland on March 17 and 18.
Riyadh Season hosts a costume and cosplay event in Boulevard Riyadh City and Winter Wonderland on March 17 and 18.
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Riyadh Season Hosts Legendary Costume Party

Riyadh Season hosts a costume and cosplay event in Boulevard Riyadh City and Winter Wonderland on March 17 and 18.
Riyadh Season hosts a costume and cosplay event in Boulevard Riyadh City and Winter Wonderland on March 17 and 18.

The Boulevard Riyadh City and Winter Wonderland areas were turned into a theater full of cosplay characters and a festival of wonderful costumes as part of the Riyadh Season which is hosting the costume and cosplay event on March 17 and 18.

From the early hours on Thursday, large numbers of visitors began arriving. Many wore costumes of superheroes or anime characters, which have been popular in the country for a long time, to enjoy an enthralling live show that went on for hours.

They also found artists offering to document the occasion through portrait paintings of each character and costume in the event.

Two costume competitions were also organized as part of the festivities. The first, held on Thursday, saw those wearing costumes of superheroes from Hollywood, Disney stars, or anime characters. While on Friday, people will dress up with costumes inspired by the seventies or famous films and TV characters.

The General Entertainment Authority chairman has announced several prizes, including two cars (one for each day), in addition to PS5 consoles.

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Stolen Shoe Mystery Solved at Japanese Kindergarten When Security Camera Catches Weasel in the Act

This image made from security camera video released by Kasuya Police shows a weasel with a shoe at a kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Kasuya Police via AP)
This image made from security camera video released by Kasuya Police shows a weasel with a shoe at a kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Kasuya Police via AP)
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Stolen Shoe Mystery Solved at Japanese Kindergarten When Security Camera Catches Weasel in the Act

This image made from security camera video released by Kasuya Police shows a weasel with a shoe at a kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Kasuya Police via AP)
This image made from security camera video released by Kasuya Police shows a weasel with a shoe at a kindergarten in Koga, Fukuoka prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Kasuya Police via AP)

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 were all slip-ons the children wore indoors, stored in cubbyholes near the door.

Weasels are known to stash items and people who keep weasels as pets give them toys so they can hide them.

The weasel scattered shoes around and took 15 of them before police were called. Six more were taken the following day. The weasel returned Nov. 11 to steal one more shoe. The camera footage of that theft was seen the next day.

The shoe-loving weasel only took the white indoor shoes made of canvas, likely because they’re light to carry.

“We were so relieved,” Gosho Kodomo-en kindergarten director Yoshihide Saito told Japanese broadcaster RKB Mainichi Broadcasting.

The children got a good laugh when they saw the weasel in the video.

Although the stolen shoes were never found, the remaining shoes are now safe at the kindergarten with nets installed over the cubbyholes.

The weasel, which is believed to be wild, is still on the loose.