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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Ships not as likely as smaller boats, true. But crew get washed overboard from time to time in heavy weather.
They’ve found feet washed up along the Oregon coast as well (in addition to tons of uninhabited sneakers believed to be deck cargo), but I would think that the configuration of the straits around Vancouver Island would make for some unusual currents. The area’s known as the “Graveyard of the Pacific”.
Wire and concrete block.
Sounds like a few people got more than their toes in the water!
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