--- title: Fox Steals a Man's Wallet: Viral Video description: Watch your wallets, golfers canonical: https://time.com/4253986/fox-steals-wallet-golf-course/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-10T20:57:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:51.961Z og:title: Watch aSly Fox Steal a Man's Wallet og:description: Watch your wallets, golfers og:url: https://time.com/4253986/fox-steals-wallet-golf-course/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch aSly Fox Steal a Man's Wallet twitter:description: Watch your wallets, golfers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Sly Fox Steal a Man's Wallet by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 10, 2016 8:57 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 10, 2016 8:57 PM UTC Anyone who has read Roald Dahl’s _Fantastic Mr. Fox_ (or seen Wes Anderson’s [film version](http://entertainment.time.com/2011/06/23/the-25-all-time-best-animated-films/slide/fantastic-mr-fox-2009/)) knows that foxes are talented and wily chicken thieves. What you may not know is that occasionally foxes use their nefarious skills to steal other things—like wallets. A group of friends were playing a few holes at Ireland’s Baltray golf course when a fox decided to appoint himself caddy. The little critter started rifling through the golf bag, much to the delight of the golfers. Their laughter turned to dismay, however, when the creature grabbed a man’s wallet out of the bag and ran off with it. When the man realized the fox was making a break for it, he gave chase and the fox dropped the bounty. However, when the golfer retrieved the wallet, the fox was loitering around, giving the distinct impression that the fox had not given up on his life of crime just yet. \[H/T [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/fox-steals-golfers-wallet/#l8vKmxx35sq8)\] Fox Steals a Man's Wallet: Viral Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4253986/fox-steals-wallet-golf-course/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4253986/fox-steals-wallet-golf-course/"},"headline":"Watch a Sly Fox Steal a Man's Wallet","datePublished":"2016-03-10T20:57:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:51.961Z","description":"Watch your wallets, golfers","url":"https://time.com/4253986/fox-steals-wallet-golf-course/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","animals","Fox"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4253986/fox-steals-wallet-golf-course/","name":"Watch a Sly Fox Steal a Man's Wallet"}}]}] ```