"Feet accidentilly fall off all the time. It's a fact, look it up."
Posted on 10/30/2009 11:17:19 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
British Columbia’s waters have washed ashore yet another disarticulated foot.
Two men walking along the beach at No. 6 Road and Triangle Road in Richmond found the sneaker-clad foot lying in the sand Tuesday night. Inside the size 8 1/2 white Nike running shoe was the decomposing remains of a human right foot. It’s the seventh sneaker-clad discovered on B.C. shores since 2007. “There’s no indication if it’s a male or female as of yet,” coroner Jeff Dolan told The Province Wednesday. “At first glance it doesn’t match any of the other feet.” The first foot was found on Jedidiah Island in August 2007.
Six days after the first find, a man’s right foot was found on Gabriola Island.
A third foot was found in February 2008 on Valdez Island and was later matched to the fifth foot, which was discovered in June 2008 on Westham Island.
Two feet found in May 2008 on Kirkland Island and in November 2008 near Finn Slough in Richmond were identified as belonging to the same woman.
“These could be people who have come from outside the province when they entered the water in B.C.,” Dolan said.
“They could have come here from another province or state and no one knew.”
A DNA sample from the latest foot will be compared against missing person cases and other unidentified remains for possible matches.
Dolan said there is no evidence of foul play as all of the feet appear to have become disarticulated from the body through natural processes.
Disarticulated feet do occasionally wash ashore — although not in high records like B.C. has recently seen.
Lightweight running sneakers can be particularly buoyant, protecting the remains from critters while also helping the shoe to pop up and float along the water’s surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at theprovince.com ...
• Aug. 26, 2007: A right foot in a size 12 Reebok running shoe and sock was found on Gabriola Island. It has not yet been identified.
• Feb. 8, 2008: A third foot was found on Valdes Island, south of Gabriola.
• May 22, 2008: A size 7 female foot in a New Balance running shoe was found by a caretaker on Kirkland Island, off Richmond.
• June 16, 2008: A foot was found off Westham Island in Ladner. It was matched in July 2008 to a foot found on Valdes, but the remains have not been identified.
• Nov. 12, 2008: A couple walking their dogs found a left foot encased in a blue-and-white New Balance sneaker along the dike near Finn Slough in Richmond. The foot was matched in December 2008 to one found on Kirkland Island. The feet have not been identified.
Weird
I kneed to keep abreast of the foot
What the heck is happening offshore there?????
Almost as mystifying as the single empty sneaker on the side of the road. Except these come with a bonus foot!
Do Great Whites live off British Columbia?
You’d think if someone was missing a foot they’d have reported it.
The FBI needs to get up there and give them a hand.
Dr. Scholls promotion. “See what happens when you don’t wear the correct footwear”?!
There are billions, perhaps trillions of possible word combinations in the English language. I imagine almost all of them have been used in one place or another at some previous point in history. I am positive that this particular phrase is unique, possibly to never be reprinted again.
Not Bigfoot, anyway.
Authorities stumped...
Do Great Whites live off British Columbia?
They live wherever they want to.....
"Feet accidentilly fall off all the time. It's a fact, look it up."
Lightweight running sneakers can be particularly buoyant, protecting the remains from critters while also helping the shoe to pop up and float along the water’s surface.
Aw Jeez!....Just a Nike ad......
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“You put your right foot in, you take your right foot out...”
Size 8 1/2?
In my family that would be Littlefoot!
:-)
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