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Another foot washes ashore in Vanc B.C.

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I'm guessing it's just someone playing a prank cutting feet off bodies from a mortuary or something like that before they cremate them.
 
Maybe there's a psycho holding people prisoner and he's cutting off their feet so they can't run away?!

Yeah! That's what I'm..err...he could be doing.
 
Originally posted by: 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."


© Vancouver Sun
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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."
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So how much leg-work was done? Sounds like you really got to put the foot to the pedal on this, yeah?
 
sounds like a South Park episode.

Feet keep washing up and the police think they aren't related. Punchline is people only have one left foot so they can't possibly have anything to do with one another.

plot twist comes the the arrival of a right foot.
 
Originally posted by: 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.
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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?
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Yeah, on the way to work today a headline on one of the papers exclaimed "Footloose!...(again)." I chuckled.

KT
 
Originally posted by: 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.
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I don't see how they can can rule foul play out without knowing where the feet came from. Something strange is afoot here...
 
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