Another foot washes ashore in Vanc B.C.

[Cdubneeddeal]

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METRO VANCOUVER - Police are refusing to link a foot that washed ashore on B.C.'s south coast Monday with any of the others - despite it being the first left foot found after four right ones.

"Although it is very unique that another foot has surfaced, that in and of itself doesn't provide a direct link (between the five)," Delta police Const. Sharlene Brooks said.

"We're not naive enough to think it's not possible that (the latest foot) is linked to the others, but we certainly don't want to discount anything else."


Delta police and the coroners service spent Tuesday trying to solve the mystery of the foot, which was found on Westham Island in Ladner, just south of Vancouver - the fifth discovered since August.

Brooks said it is too early yet to comment on the identity or sex of the victim, and would not reveal any information about the style or size of the running shoe.

A photograph obtained by The Vancouver Sun suggests the shoe is a white sneaker, possibly with a blue Nike swoosh symbol.

The grim discovery was made by a couple out walking their dog, who saw the shoe floating in the water, pulled it to shore and called police, Brooks said.

The case is being treated as a criminal investigation.

All five of the feet had been submerged in water. Three feet were discovered on Gulf Islands beaches: Jedediah Island (Aug. 20), Gabriola Island (Aug. 26) and Valdes Island (Feb. 8). A fourth was found in a running shoe on Kirkland Island, near the Massey Tunnel, on May 22.

Brooks, who has been fielding phone calls from journalists across Canada and the United States about the strange mystery, said Tuesday it's not unusual to find human remains washed up on shore at this time of year.

"It's just unique that this is another foot. That's for certain," she said.

She said it could be some time before police are able to say whether the foot's DNA matches a known missing person, or any of the right feet found previously.

"When you're trying to confirm identity, you need to be able to compare it with something," she said. "And when you don't have that, you might have DNA, but you don't know to whom it belongs."


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I really like this part
"Brooks, who has been fielding phone calls from journalists across Canada and the United States about the strange mystery, said Tuesday it's not unusual to find human remains washed up on shore at this time of year."

 

[eldorado99]

Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

???

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

???

Obviously they have no foot to stand on..

 

[eldorado99]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

???

????

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

???

Obviously they have no foot to stand on..

Delivers
-AE

 

[Itchrelief]

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

No-good footloose troublemakers, I'm sure.

 

[Scouzer]

They were obviously Armenian Mob

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

Slow down Columbo!

 

[eldorado99]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

Slow down Columbo!

No, I used a shoestring and a paperclip to deduce this, I'm Macgyver.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

it's not unusual to find human remains washed up on shore at this time of year.

Sig worthy.

 

[micaturbo]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
They were obviously Armenian Mob

Who robbed their money train this time :/

 

[Rumpltzer]

In a land where feet are washing up onto the beaches, there are victims and there are agressors. Which do you want to be?

 

[Grunt03]

Must be a small croud walking in circles.....:laugh:

 

[biggestmuff]

5 feet in 10 months? This guy should be easy to catch. Whoever is doing this is traveling very slow...half a foot a month.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: eldorado99
Yeah I've been following this too as I live within the GVRD, it certainly is bizarre. One thing is for sure, whoever those feet belong to aren't totally innocent themselves.

???

Obviously they have no foot to stand on..

Well at least the have the leg-part covered!

 

[aesthetics]

Oops, sorry, that must've fallen out of the trunk of my car...

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

it's not unusual to find human remains washed up on shore at this time of year.

Sig worthy.

Surely they need to have Morgan Freeman there talking about the treacherous journey of the noble feet as they, *ahem* "march" ashore.

 

[Locut0s]

Foul play ruled out.

Well actually if you read that it doesn't sound like it's ruled out it's just that the best explanation they have right now focuses on an accident.

And I live in Vancouver too.

 

[Mrvile]

The writer says the word "foot" so many times that it has lost its existance as a word to me.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
The writer says the word "foot" so many times that it has lost its existance as a word to me.

I can't believe the number of bad taste puns news organizations are using for this: I saw headline yesterday A Mystery Afoot.

Won't someone think of the children?

 

[krunchykrome]

I heard on the radio this morning that when a person becomes submerged in water, the first body parts to deattach are the feet, hands, and head.

 

[buck]

Did someone talk to Dexter Morgan?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

are the feet forcefully detached or naturally separated?