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Old 06-19-2008, 08:25 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hey Canadians! Whats with the feet?

What is the scoop on the human feet washing up in BC?
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Old 06-19-2008, 08:45 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Is feet washing a new trend in BC? They are a progressive bunch up there. Jesus washed human feet but as far as I know he never did it in BC. Most of the BC'ers I know do not have smelly feet so I assume they wash regularly.

Otherwise, the human body parts washing up on the shore is weird and I hope they catch the insane maniac who's cutting up people.
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Old 06-19-2008, 08:53 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Very strange! Six feet within a year. A BBC Article on the topic:

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Old 06-19-2008, 09:02 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Thankfully the 6 feet are not all from the same person. DNA testing "proved" it. Not common sense, DNA testing.
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Old 06-19-2008, 09:10 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Very bizarre. I have caught every article on this so far- then again I do have RSS feeds from three different news sources, so it is unlikely that I didn't catch one of them.

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Old 06-19-2008, 09:56 AM   #6 (permalink)
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It's an outbreak of foot in river mouth disease....


Menacingly, 9 men in their 20s have disappeared from the lower mainland in the past, oh, 9 months. No doubt the cops are exploring that closely… It does feel like an Untraceable style movie which gives it that patina of perverse glamour
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Old 06-19-2008, 10:02 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Its good that we're certain there are no 6 legged mutants out there at least.
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Old 06-19-2008, 10:03 AM   #8 (permalink)
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hey buddy, i think i've got an idea.
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Old 06-19-2008, 10:16 AM   #9 (permalink)
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if i get the chance to head to canada i´ll be chaining my feet to the rest of my body :s
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Old 06-19-2008, 10:40 AM   #10 (permalink)
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What's so strange to you? Doesn't this kind of thing happen all the time in the U.S.? I've seen enough CSI to know that.


But, seriously, we don't know.... Maybe we should ask the pig farmer to see if he knows anything.
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Old 06-19-2008, 12:36 PM   #11 (permalink)
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...hub=TopStories


hoax???


Sixth foot a 'reprehensible' hoax: B.C. coroner
Updated Thu. Jun. 19 2008 4:13 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

A sixth foot believed to have washed ashore on Vancouver Island was not human, although it was found inside a sock and running shoe, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.

"A forensic pathologist and an anthropologist have examined the shoe and remains, and determined a skeletonised animal paw was inserted into the shoe with a sock and packed with dried seaweed," BCCS said in a statement Thursday.

The foot had been found inside a size-10 black Adidas shoe.

Five human feet have been found in the waters of the Georgia Strait area between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland in the past year, and only one has been a left foot.

The first two feet washed up in August 2007, one on Gabriola Island, the other on Jedidiah Island. Then in February another foot appeared on Valdes Island.

B.C.'s chief coroner Terry Smith has said foul play is not suspected because there does not appear to be any evidence the bones were severed.

Investigators are focusing on the missing bodies of four plane crash victims who disappeared in February 2005. The discovery of the sixth foot had cast doubt on whether the crash and the feet were connected, because it seemed to indicate a fifth body.

"This type of hoax is reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons," said BCCS.


"It fuels inappropriate speculation and creates undue anxiety for families and communities while wasting valuable investigative time and resources that could be spent on the main investigations."
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Old 06-19-2008, 01:35 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 06-19-2008, 01:48 PM   #13 (permalink)
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You put your left foot in, you take your left foot out
and you shake it all aboot!
That's hilarious.


Leto's right- the latest foot was a hoax. Since I spent the time to copy this into the TFP thread generator:
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View: [ANCHOR]Latest severed 'foot' proved to be a hoax[/ANCHOR] (link)
Source: CNN (http://edition.cnn.com)
Abstract: "A "skeletonized animal paw" had been placed in a sock and athletic shoe that was packed with dried seaweed, the British Columbia Coroners Service announced."
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Latest severed 'foot' proved to be a hoax
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:37:51 EDT
from CNN, http://edition.cnn.com



(CNN) -- What was believed to be the sixth human foot to wash up on the shores of British Columbia in recent months proved to be a fake, authorities said Thursday.

A "skeletonized animal paw" had been placed in a sock and athletic shoe that was packed with dried seaweed, the British Columbia Coroners Service announced.

The hoax was uncovered as the coroner's office began DNA and other forensic tests on the supposed foot in an attempt to identify the person to whom it belonged.

The coroners service, a forensic pathologist and an anthropologist all examined the shoe and remains before declaring it a fake.

"It is the position of BCCS that this type of hoax is reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons," authorities said in a written statement. "It fuels inappropriate speculation and creates undue anxiety for families and communities while wasting valuable investigative time and resources that could be spent on the main investigations."

Police initially believed a right human foot had been found in a man's size 10 black Adidas athletic shoe. The grisly discovery was made on Wednesday.

The "find" set off conjecture over the source of five other severed human feet that have been found along the Canadian province's Pacific coast in the past 11 months. Authorities are continuing to investigate multiple possibilities on the origin of the feet -- from foul play to the possibility they belonged to victims of a plane crash.

"We are exploring the possibility that it could be people who may have drowned," said Annie Linteau, a spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "It could be missing fishermen. It could be the remains of people who may have died in a plane crash."

When asked about the suspicion of foul play, Linteau noted the first four feet contained no tool marks and were therefore deemed not to have been severed.

A woman walking on the beach reported the sixth find, said Sgt. Mike Tresoor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Sandra Malone, manager of the Thunderbird RV Park and Campground on the Tyee Spit, said a woman came in about 10:30 a.m. and asked her to call police, saying she had found the shoe with the foot inside it.

While waiting for police, Malone said, she walked to the beach with the woman and saw it for herself.

"The leg bones were coming out of the running shoe about 3 to 4 inches," she said. "There were no tissues or anything attached."

She said seaweed was wrapped around the top of the running shoe, making it hard to tell whether any tissue was inside the shoe. But she said the foot appeared to have been deliberately severed, as the bones "had been cut clean across."

Another foot -- a left foot still in a shoe -- was found Monday on the shore of Westham Island, south of Vancouver. Police said it was taken to a coroner for DNA testing.

The Vancouver Sun newspaper said the first four feet found were all right feet, making the foot found Monday the only left foot.

Experts told The Sun there could be explanations that did not suggest foul play.

Ian Buckingham, a retired coroner, told the newspaper the ankle joint can come apart easily if a body is decomposing at sea.

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an expert on ocean currents, told The Sun a foot wearing a buoyant athletic shoe could float as far as 1,000 miles.

Although the gruesome finds have drawn international attention, police said it may take some time to unravel the mystery.

"We suffer from the 'CSI' effect: People think this can happen very quickly," Brooks said. "It could take weeks or months. And even if we get a DNA sample, we need a sample to match it with."

The mystery has caused a stir and led to many rumors, locals say. One newspaper has began investigating a rash of young men who have gone missing in the area.

Some have wondered whether the feet could belong to five men who were in a plane that crashed three years ago in the waterway where the feet were found.

Some of those men's relatives were at the Campbell River site on Wednesday.

"It's a constant reminder every time, from the time the first foot washed up," said Kirsten Stevens, whose husband, Dave, died in the crash. Although her husband's body was located, Stevens said, the other men's relatives never recovered their loved ones' remains.

"It reopens the wound every single time," she said.
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Old 06-19-2008, 02:17 PM   #14 (permalink)
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There is still no answer... apparently the police are stumped.
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Old 06-19-2008, 02:25 PM   #15 (permalink)
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apparently the police are stumped.
Is there a pun intended there?
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Old 06-19-2008, 02:42 PM   #16 (permalink)
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There is still no answer... apparently the police are stumped.
Yeah, it's been going on for a while now. It seems they've gotten off on the wrong foot.

Some strange things happen out west.
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Old 06-19-2008, 03:12 PM   #17 (permalink)
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They're really dragging their heels about solving this thing.

Well... heel.

(Okay, confession: this was what my dad used to say about my grandma after she had one leg amputated at the knee. Also, "You know grandma, she's got her feet dug in. Well... foot.")
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Old 06-19-2008, 03:58 PM   #18 (permalink)
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They were going to hire a private dick to help with case but thought a gum shoe might have more insight.
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Old 06-19-2008, 04:07 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Not only that, but a gumshoe would be more liable to go toe to toe with the perpetrator and really sock him one.
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Old 06-19-2008, 06:10 PM   #20 (permalink)
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They just keep pussy -footing around the bigger issue. Where do the socks disappear to?
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Old 06-19-2008, 06:13 PM   #21 (permalink)
 
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Ummm...hey you guys...your puns are really lame.
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Old 06-19-2008, 06:46 PM   #22 (permalink)
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There is still no answer... apparently the police are stumped.
I read that several times before "getting" dry, very dry. I laughed my ass off, thanks I needed it today.
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Old 06-19-2008, 06:48 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Thats what happens when you lose your footing.
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Old 06-19-2008, 07:15 PM   #24 (permalink)
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I have never heard of this before, its nice to know that my neighbors from the west are so footloose and free.
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Old 06-19-2008, 07:50 PM   #25 (permalink)
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At the risk of being a step ahead of anyone else, the news just reported that the most recent foot to wash up was a hoax. It was actually an animal foot that was placed into a shoe. The rest however, I have no idea so far...
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Old 06-19-2008, 08:16 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Apparently some sick joke is afoot. Deplorable.
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Old 06-19-2008, 08:18 PM   #27 (permalink)
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i wonder why its only the feet it boggles the mind.
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Old 06-20-2008, 05:18 AM   #28 (permalink)
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My cousin says it has to do with the drug trades in B.C, theres a big issue between an asian gang and the hells angels. Either way, its disgusting and horrible.
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Old 06-20-2008, 06:46 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Apparently the gangs get a kick out of it.
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Old 06-20-2008, 06:53 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Well, the police should really put their foot down rather than just wait for the other shoe to drop.
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Old 06-20-2008, 07:10 AM   #31 (permalink)
 
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Thank guys ..now Kenny Loggins is stuck in my head.


I wonder if someone is trying to send a message.
They have found 6 feet correct?
as in 'six feet under?'

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Old 06-20-2008, 11:42 AM   #32 (permalink)
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The pig who wore sneakers was found just outside a trailer park on the BC
coast. And the world fell for it. Don't you just love sloppy journalists.
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Old 06-20-2008, 12:15 PM   #33 (permalink)
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I'm sure they'd like to catch the guy who would sneaker round dumping feet in the water. But they're saying that the friction of the beach has badly degraded the evidence. Sandal do that, I guess.
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Old 06-20-2008, 12:42 PM   #34 (permalink)
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best thread this week at least
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I've seriously enjoyed the wordplay displayed by so many in this thread. Fabulous.
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Old 06-20-2008, 02:04 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Maybe BC is where all the bulemic sharks go to "urp?"

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They just keep pussy -footing around the bigger issue. Where do the socks disappear to?

And it's always just one sock missing, too.

(Sorry couldn't resist that one)
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best thread this week at least
It's good, but I don't know if it matches this one, which started out in Technology and moved to Nonsense.
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Old 06-20-2008, 02:23 PM   #38 (permalink)
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I dunno... just don't start quoting Jim McKay and talk about "thrill of victory...the agony of de-feet...."
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Old 06-20-2008, 05:47 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Seriously, it might be an airplane crash. They are getting relatives of missing person's cases to volunteer DNA to see if they can identify who they are.

(Note that there are 4 left feet, and 1 right foot. A bad-dancers convention is suspected as the source.)
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I thought it was the other way around, four right and one left...
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