Posted on 06/17/2008 12:58:12 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Canadian police are probing a possible link between a left foot which washed up yesterday on a beach near Vancouver and four right feet which have since last year similarly made landfall on the coast of British Columbia, the BBC reports.
The mysterious spate of seaborne foot landings began last August when two right feet came ashore on small islands north of Vancouver. This was followed by another right foot discovered in February, while May saw the fourth wash up on a suburban Vancouver beach. All four were wearing trainers.
While police say there is "no evidence that the feet were deliberately severed or removed by force", they are treating the latest stray foot mystery as a criminal investigation. Police spokeswoman Sharlene Brooks said: "We are certainly not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it is just too premature and very speculative for us to even entertain that right now."
The good burghers of Vancouver, on the other hand, are enjoying a podiatric speculationfest, with media and coffee shops "buzzing with theories" as to why the coastline of British Columbia has grown five feet since last year. Organised crime, boating accidents or the 2004 Asian tsunami are among the possibilities on offer, according to the Beeb. ®
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
My first instinct is to laugh and make jokes, but then I don’t want to put a foot in my mouth.
it washes up on beachfront
and the cops are all confused
That's what it's all about.
check the dancing schools - plenty of people there who are all left feet.
I hope they are putting their best foot forward.
The victims of the Canadian foot killer, if that is what it is, do not deserve to have such stupid jokes made about them, or to have the media play off the perpetrator’s warped sense of humor. This story is morbid, not funny.
Diabetic amputees?
Since these are washing up in volume now I guess feet are to bony for the fishes?
that foot is a queer foot.
Apparently so. LOL
For every sock missing from the dryer, for every shoe found on the side of the road...a foot! A home!
Reminds me of growing up on the Detroit River. Each Spring as the water began to heat up and organisms began to multiply: floaters would pop up.
LOLOL!!!
No, it's funny (but in a morbid way).
Yes, it is a morbid story, all the more so if indeed it is due to some weirdo’s killng fetish.
So accept my apologies for making fun.
Some people log on to take offense at things that concern them not at all.
They're dining sumptuously on footaccini alfredo, fillet of sole smothered in bunions, creamed corn.....with tootsy rolls for dessert.
Charley Toena is their chef, of course.
Bone apetite!
Leni
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