Posted on 09/01/2011 7:30:04 AM PDT by Palter
VANCOUVER—Another foot has washed ashore in Vancouver, police said Tuesday.
Tuesday’s discovery marks the eighth foot to be found on the B.C. coast since August 2007. Three more have washed up in nearby Washington.
Vancouver police Const. Jana McGuinness said that a person reported finding “the remains of what appear to be a human foot and leg bones in a running shoe” on Tuesday afternoon.
“The shoe was found floating in the water next to the Plaza of Nations marina in False Creek,” she said in a news release.
Police and officials from the BC Coroner’s Service are investigating the discovery.
“There is no indication at this early stage in the investigation how the remains came to be there,” McGuinness said.
The first foot, discovered in August 2007 on Jedediah Island, northeast of Nanaimo, B.C., was associated with a deceased man whose name police withheld at the request of his family.
A man’s right foot found on Gabriola Island in August 2007 remains unidentified.
Two feet found on Valdez and Westham islands in July 2008 belonged to the same man.
And two female feet found in Richmond, B.C., in December 2008 belonged to the same woman.
In October 2009, a right foot was discovered on a beach in Richmond.
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(Ya didn't have to stomp on AmericaninTokyo with both feet, did ya?)
Sounds like detectives have a lot of footwork to do.
This unfolding story is kind of morbidly fascinating, at least to me. What the heck are we dealing with here? Serial killer? Some strange freak accidents that keep occurring without anyone noticing? Or is it really.... the “Bermuda Triangle” of feet?
Hmm... maybe I could write a good sci-fi story on the basis of this.
No doubt. Better get a gumshoe on the case.
Well played, sir!
Serial killer with a sense of humor?
But it's not true that drowning victims always float. There's a good deal of variation, depending on body mass, what the deceased is wearing, etc. In cold water (and this water is pretty cold - dry suit country) bodies may never resurface at all. There are plenty of cases in the Great Lakes of drowning victims from boating accidents, etc. where the bodies are never found.
Consider the possibility that it’s but one part of a promotional campaign for a new beer celebrating 12 Foot Davis, Canadian folk hero.
Or not.
This’ll never go to court. The prosecution would have no leg to stand on!
Yours is probably the most likely explanation, but then, why don’t we see feet washing ashore in waterways all over the world? Is there something special about the geography of this area that causes the feet to say, swirl around and eventually wash up, instead of being carried out to sea? Or are the BC’ers just the only people on the planet who think finding a string of floating, detached feet is actually news?
Sounds like a job for the B. A. U.
He’s not gel’n.
The person responsible for that headline should, at a minimum, get a citation from the pun police. This cannot stand.
it’s just people jumping off a bridge and when the body rots or is eaten ,the sneakers float away. There solved.
Except maybe off of the coast of East Africa, people don’t just fall off of ships. LOL!
“Get your revolver, Watson. The game’s afoot!”
I think you need to find the closet Sharia Law conclave. It’s probably in Canada and these are the feet of lawbreakers in a Muslim neighborhood.
I'm an old ELP fan from way back.
And, yes, their version of "Jerusalem" is fantastic.
Also love their version of Copland's "Hoedown" from the ballet Rodeo.
They covered Mussorgsky well too.
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