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"A human foot has been found on a beach near the west-coast city of Vancouver, Canadian police say.
It is the fifth human foot to wash up on beaches in the area in the past year. The latest find is a left foot, whereas the other four were right feet."
Does this mean the depth off the beach is 5 feet?????
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Steve
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Times Online are reporting: Plane crash seen as answer to Canada's severed feet mystery
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The coroner insists that it's not a crime thriller: just a simple case of disarticulation.
But the people of Vancouver, where five human feet have washed up in the past ten months, are not so sure.
The first foot was found last August, on Gabriola Island. The fifth was found on Monday by a man walking along the Fraser River, in a suburb of the Canadian port city. “He saw a shoe floating in the water, pulled it to the shore and called police,” said Sharlene Brooks, a Vancouver police officer.
The feet are all in the care of the British Columbia's Coroner's Service. Police refused to give any details about the type of shoe encasing the fifth foot, its size and its gender, although they did reveal that it was the first left foot to be found. The other four were all right feet encased in running shoes. ...
But it is far from clear that a crime has been committed. She said: “Our examination has found no evidence that the feet were severed, meaning there were tool markings, etc. We have no evidence to support that."
Oh I get it. Plane crashes = feet fall off! Perfect sense.
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Gail Anderson, a criminologist at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University and specialist in forensic decomposition, said that the appearance of five feet is not necessarily sinister.
NOT sinister!!!!
If I find 5 feet washed up I would think:'' Hey ho nowt odd about that then.''
Do Canadians think differently?
You tell me.
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The Canadian Press are reporting: Sixth human foot found on beach near Campbell River on Vancouver Island
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A sixth human foot has washed up on a B.C. shore - the second one this week.
RCMP say it appears to be a human right foot. Sgt. Mike Tresoor of the Campbell River RCMP on the east coast of Vancouver Island says police got a call from a citizen who reported finding a body part on a beach on Tyee Spit.
No other remains were found.
The foot is the latest in a bizarre and deepening mystery, after six feet have washed up on shore still encased inside a running shoe.
Five of the feet found that have been found in various locations beginning last August were right feet but the foot found Monday was a left foot.
RCMP say the remains of the latest foot were found inside a size 10 black Adidas running shoe.
The Globe and Mail are reporting: Latest severed foot a hoax, coroner says
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Remains found in a shoe near Campbell River, B.C., Wednesday are not human, the B.C. Coroners Service said Thursday.
The BCCS, along with a forensic pathologist and an anthropologist, examined the remains and determined that an animal-paw skeleton had been inserted into the shoe with a sock and packed with dried seaweed, according to a press release.
The BCCS described the hoax as “reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons” and is no longer investigating the incident.
Five other feet have been found in the Vancouver area since last August, including four right feet and a left foot....
The Times Colonist are reporting: Theories on feet running rampant around the world
Explanations for washed-up remains range from realistic to ridiculous
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The flotilla of feet clad in sneakers that has washed ashore on the south coast since August 2007 has people talking -- and, apparently, trying to egg on the mystery.
Yesterday, the B.C. coroner's office determined that a foot found Wednesday on a Campbell River beach was a hoax. Someone took the bones of an animal's foot and stuffed it in a sock and sneaker, then packed it with seaweed.
This last case at least has an explanation of human involvement. But with a lack of explanations coming from the coroner's office or RCMP about the five other feet, the public debate over their origin is running rampant. News of the feet has spread around the world.
Investigators carry foot in Rubbermaid container from Campbell River beach. The bones were found to be a hoax.
On Wednesday, a Times Colonist reporter did a live interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The story has been picked up by countless media organizations, from CNN and the BBC to the New York Times and the Guardian, as well as newspapers in Europe, India and South Africa. Of prime interest: Where are the feet coming from, and why are they washing ashore in droves?
Tempering the gallows humour that surrounds such stories is the real likelihood that these five feet belong to B.C. people who are now dead. The most reasonable explanations are that the feet belong to fishermen who are missing and presumed drowned, as well as the victims of a February 2005 plane crash near Quadra Island.
But two of the crash victims, Fabien Bedard and pilot Arnold Feast, are now excluded through DNA analysis from belonging to the first three feet, said Arnold's wife, Sally Feast of Campbell River.
As for why other body parts aren't being washed ashore, the bouyant sneakers likely kept the feet afloat as the bodies decomposed in the water.
The first two feet washed up in August on Gabriola and Jedediah islands, just south of Texada Island in the Strait of Georgia. The third foot was found in February on nearby Valdes Island, the fourth in late May on Kirkland Island in the mouth of the Fraser River, and the fifth foot on Monday on Westham Island, also in the Fraser River.
With each discovery of a foot raising questions for loved ones, hoaxes such as the one in Campbell River are "very disrespectful," the coroner's office said yesterday.
"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," said spokesman Terry Foster.
Despite the censure, people continue to talk.
A common theme is it's the work of bored medical students or hospital workers who dissect cadavers and dress up the feet before tossing them in the sea. Or there's a crazed funeral home director who is playing fast and loose with the feet of the deceased. Or a serial killer is targeting people in running shoes.
Also being discussed: The limbs belong to suicide victims, or victims of organized crime, or stowaways who perished before getting to Canada.
A suggestion that we're seeing the remains of the 2005 tsunami victims come ashore after a voyage across the Pacific seems plausible. It makes sense that ocean currents might bring a cluster of floating shoes ashore -- but why just here in the Strait of Georgia and not the vast and well-travelled beaches of Tofino and Ucluelet, or the coasts of Washington and Oregon?...
As for why other body parts aren't being washed ashore, the bouyant sneakers likely kept the feet afloat as the bodies decomposed in the water.
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A suggestion that we're seeing the remains of the 2005 tsunami victims come ashore after a voyage across the Pacific seems plausible.
If this is the case then why aren't there lots of trainer clad feet washing up all over the world?
Not being an expert on oceanic currents but even I would ponder at the following:
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It makes sense that ocean currents might bring a cluster of floating shoes ashore -- but why just here in the Strait of Georgia and not the vast and well-travelled beaches of Tofino and Ucluelet, or the coasts of Washington and Oregon?...
Perhaps I am looking too closely at the more macabre possibility:
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A common theme is it's the work of bored medical students or hospital workers who dissect cadavers and dress up the feet before tossing them in the sea. Or there's a crazed funeral home director who is playing fast and loose with the feet of the deceased. Or a serial killer is targeting people in running shoes.
My question: How long would it take for the ankle joint to decompose if submerged in sea water?
If the 'plane crash theory is to be given consideration & possibly traumatic amputated occurred during the crash I could understand the floating trainer thing.
However, If death is due to drowning (tsunami) then why not whole legs floating in?
So, the decomposition?
Anyone?
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Press Release: Police ask public for help in case of feet washed ashore
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Police made a plea Thursday for public help in finding the owners of five feet that washed ashore on Canada's Pacific coast in the past year.
The five feet were all in running shoes and belonged to four people, police said at a news conference. They include one matching pair from one male, and one foot from a female.
"There is no evidence that these feet have been severed," Constable Annie Linteau told reporters in this west coast city.
"There were no tool markings and no visible sign of trauma. It appears that these feet have naturally disarticulated from the body through a natural process," said Linteau.
"And we have no information to suggest that other than the third and fifth foot, these remains are connected."
Investigators said they are in the process of comparing DNA from the feet to a police list of nearly 400 known missing persons from Western Canada, of which they have already ruled out 130 men.
Police are also tracking where and when the shoes were made. The found shoes include:
-- One right Campus brand sneaker, US size 12, primarily white with blue mesh, manufactured in 2003 and sold mostly in India.
-- One man's right white Reebok sneaker, US size 12, manufactured in 2004 and sold mostly in North America but also worldwide.
-- Both right and left shoes in a matching pair of men's blue-and-white Nike sneakers, US size 11, manufactured in 2003 and sold in Canada and the United States between February 1 and June 20, 2003.
-- One woman's right blue-and-white New Balance running shoe, US size 7, manufactured in June 1999 and sold in major retail stores.
Police asked anyone with information "or who may recognize a shoe as belonging to a missing loved one" to phone 1-866-504-3888 in North America.
Forensic criminologist Gail Anderson, of Simon Fraser University here, earlier told AFP the feet might have detached naturally from victims of a boat or plane accident almost anywhere in the world, and floated to British Columbia on ocean currents.
"The reason only feet have been found is because they are in running shoes and protected," Anderson told AFP.
Last month a sixth foot was reported to police. It turned out to be a severed animal paw stuffed into a sock and shoe, wrapped in seaweed and left on a beach as a hoax.
CTVBC.ca are reporting: A possible breakthrough in missing feet mystery
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For the past year, police have been looking for the owners of the feet that have washed ashore on the beaches of southwestern British Columbia. Now, they have a match.
CTV News has learned one of the six feet that washed up on B.C. beaches, matches the DNA of a missing man.
The first foot washed ashore on Jedidiah Island in Georgia strait on August 12th of last year. It was a men's foot in a size 12 campus running shoe, distributed primarily in India.
Six days later, another men's right foot was found on Gabriola island. That shoe was a size 12 Reebok.
It's believed one of those feet is that of a depressed man who went missing last year. Police (RCMP have confirmed to CTV they) are talking to his family today. ....
TheSpec.com are reporting; Another mystery foot washes ashore in BC
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Another severed foot has washed up on the shores of B.C.
CTV reports that the foot was found Tuesday morning by a woman walking her dog. It was encased in a New Balance running shoe, RCMP officials say.
The mystery of the severed feet began in August 2007, when police found the remains of a man's foot in a size 12 running shoe washed up between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Since then, six other feet have been discovered on the shores of B.C. and Washington State.
All of the feet have been encased in running shoes. Only one of the feet has been from a woman and two of the feet belong to the same person.
Police are expected to answer questions about the most recent discovery this morning.
The recent gruesome find of a male right foot (size 8.5 ) in a Nike running shoe washed up on a Richmond beach belonged to a dead man from the Lower Mainland, according to official sources.The BC Coroners Service used DNA analysis to determine the owner and investigators are convinced the death was not suspicious based on the circumstances of his disappearance and his personal history.
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