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.
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Toe boat? You are thinking too much about feet.
Six feet, but only four people, and one of them has already been identified. Perhaps all it means is that running shoes have longer lasting flotation than they used to.
Yes, but they are all tiny feet - my guess would be illegal chinese immigrants who have died while at sea aboard a smuggling ship. Smugglers simply dump the body. The story does not identify the make of the collected running shoes. Not a detective, but have watched alot TV, so I think I am qualified on this one.
Dexter was shot? omg!
Somebody is playing foot loose and fancy free there.
And he had at least seven feet?
OK FReepers: Time for a foot count.
I’ve got 2.
CHECK.
Don’t be racist.
Dexter cant have the pesky woman getting in his dark side of business.
She is actually getting on my nerves.
Fave episode was when he was post car accident and the wifey insisted he have a ride to work by her and she got pushy in asking all his colleagues to help out.
Now I have pulled thousands of 20+ hrs days, still do and I KNOW how that feels on the brain so the way the show portrayed it with Mommy dexter singing and playing with baby while driving and then all the personal styles of his co-workers, loved the Asians PIA co workers big blue monster truck.
Interesting how they write the script for Dexter in that they do it all in comic book form and then bring that to life.
I am surprised there is not more Dexter fans here and a ping list.
Esp. with all the posts on how Freepers would like to serve instant justice to the souless scum of the earth.
Hmmm, must of been a runner. There is nothing unusual about an avid runner losing a foot every once in a while.
And nobody has reported that he’s mistletoe?
Athletic shoes are more buoyant than bodies, but because they are small, their buoyancy only overcomes the weight of the body when the foot bones no longer connect to the leg bones. Once that happens the shoe (with foot inside) floats to the surface, where it drifts until it comes ashore.
Why only off the BC coast? This is a guess, but probably because the water is cold. Remember the line from the Ballad of Edmund Fitzgerald? “Superior it's said never gives up its dead.” Cold water retards growth of intestinal bacteria, so that the bodies don't bloat and come to the surface intact. So the bodies fall apart below the surface, and then the foot pops up.
My guess at any rate.
Actually the headline should say “Seventh foot FOUND...â€.
I recall that one of my middle schools classes eons ago featured a short story about an ET in a Volkswagen that picked up hitchhikers and then ate them. It always threw one shoe out on the road as a sort-of trophy.
My guess? Med students or morgue workers with a twisted sense of humor. The podiatric equivalent of crop circles.
Re your post 49:
I’m not going to read it carefully, or else I’d have to say “Spoiler!”. I’m partway through year 2 on the recommendation of one of my college boys. Should I worry about him? I like it, and its too late to worry about me. I claim some credit for his twisted taste.
Oh Crap. Sorry.
Well luckily I didnt give away any episode finale.
I have a friend who lost one flip flop on the tram tour at Universal Studios.
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