Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast

[Majic Walrus]

Yeah I bet the Mounties are stumped.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

Eh!

 

[BlackLantern]

they just need to put one foot in front of the other and figure out whats going on

 

[Majic Walrus]

Any detective knows that solving a crime does require a lot of footwork.

 

[BlackLantern]

maybe they'll stumble upon the culprit

 

[Majic Walrus]

Hopefully. But I think it'll take a skilled gumshoe.

 

[SuBe]

What animal walks on four feet in the morning, two feet during the day and three at night?

Man.

 

[BlackLantern]

but with a problem such as this, it runs circles around your mind

 

[omid17]

Any detective knows that solving a crime does require a lot of footwork.

maybe they'll stumble upon the culprit

lmao

but with a problem such as this, it runs circles around your mind

it does

 

[Majic Walrus]

but with a problem such as this, it runs circles around your mind

Well one thing is for certain, the person who did this is a heel.

 

[BlackLantern]

well whoever did this should hoof it if they don't want to get caught

 

[Majic Walrus]

Definitely. I just hope that they don't make a run for the border. I don't want 'em down here.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

LMAO t:

How did I miss these 3 LOL replies? I love getting those.

 

[katie_girl09]

Definitely. I just hope that they don't make a run for the border. I don't want 'em down here.

Yeah. There are far too many psychos in the US as it is. They need to offer a new gig to immigrate.

 

[SuBe]

Yeah. There are far too many psychos in the US as it is. They need to offer a new gig to immigrate.

We continue to accept Canadian Comedians.

 

[Master Chief]

oh**** the Armenian mob is at it.

 

[Harry_Lime02]

Everyone loves a bit of mutilation but improper disposal of the severed parts is just disgusting. The correct way to do it is either bury it where it'll never be found, keep and display proudly on your mantelpiece or sell to a redneck for meth money.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Looks like the Hokie Pokie killer is at it again.

 

[Alex The Great]

A mystery is afoot



wait, has that been done yet?

 

[Wolfwood]

oh**** the Armenian mob is at it.

That's what I thought, The Shield taught me a great deal about life.

 

[Master Chief]

YeAh BoYyYEeE!!

 

[RdeemingRainbow]

Not hard to understand why it's been feet washing up. Feet in shoes, that is. The main organs would be the first consumed by animals, as would exposed body parts like the head and arms. There goes the torso, vital organs, and most of the upper body. Pants are not really that protective against the environment and rip and deteriorate quickly in the water, and predators would be able to get to the meat quickly.

Feet in shoes are mostly protected as the rest of the body is consumed and decomposes, the ankles are thin and quickly erode and the feet separate from the rest of the body. Encased in the shoes, they are heavier and protected from the elements and animals, and get caught up in tides and washed ashore. So that part's not a real mystery.

A few doctors have claimed that feet don't just detach from bodies, but they've been contradicted by other doctors and coroners. And the doctors and cops saying it's weird for it to just suddenly be happening and not happening elsewhere forget that there was a rash of disappearances, so if those are linked to the feet (as I'll explain below) then it wouldn't be at all mysterious for a sudden series of events to create another series of events you otherwise don't commonly see.

It's not just right feet, as some stories claim. Two of the feet were LEFT feet, and were matched to two of the right feet, creating two pairs of feet from two individual people. So four of the eight feet (half of the total) are matched together for two people, meaning at most there are another four people, for a total of six people over a two-year period. Not in fact a large number, averaging about one every four months.

One of the pairs of feet that were matched together came from a woman, dispelling the idea that all of the feet are from men. So that breaks any cycle that would suggest a more consistent similarity.

Also, it's a myth that none of the people involved have been identified. The very first foot, in fact, was positively identified as coming from a Vancouver man who was emotionally disturbed and who disappeared a while before his foot was found. Suicide is suspected, so there's one mysterious foot case solved.

The fact that there was a plane crash in the area not long ago is the one of the "suspects" in the case of the remaining feet. A plane crash, followed by discovery of body parts that can be explained due to decomposition and predators leaving feet in shoes to wash ashore, minus the false rumors about only-right-feet and only-male-feet and no-feet-identified, is far less mysterious, isn't it?

The other main "suspect" (and the one I think is most likely) would probably be a combination -- there have been several missing-persons reports lately in the area during the time that the feet were found. Feet from the water amid several missing-persons reports could suggest some of the people committed suicide, and maybe a few others were simply swimming and drowned. The fact that the very first foot was identified and linked to a probable suicide is a good indication that this might be a good theory explaining the remaining feet.

Seems to me that half a dozen or so people disappearing over a period of twenty-four months, one of whom was in fact linked to the very first discovered foot, is the strongest "suspect" in my opinion. The feet were not all found at the same exact spot (one was in fact found in WASHINGTON STATE, one on Valdez Island, one on Kirland Island, one in Richmond, British Columbia, one on Westham Island, etc) and we know a suicide is the likely cause of one of them, so I think there's no reason to believe the cases are actually linked to a single event or cause necessarily.

The feet are being washed ashore, at different locations, and there's no reason to think a killer could or would somehow control tides and waters enough to ensure the feet wash up this way. I don't think it's "planned" or intentional in any way, then, and is just a bit discomforting and odd until we consider the logical reasons feet would be the body parts surviving long enough to be found. Once the coincidence of feet is explained, and we have at least two strong logical explanations for their origins -- 6 suicides and/or accidents over a period of two years -- it is just a story that sounds more mysterious than it really is, and only when most of the details are excluded from the real story.

 

[BlackLantern]

I was under the impression that none of them had been identified as of yet

 

[RdeemingRainbow]

See the first paragraph from this ABC News story, noting the identification of one of the feet as an emotionally disturbed man from Vancouver:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/police-baffled-severed-feet-washed-ashore/Story?id=8948449&page=2

Also, ANOTHER of the feet (the sixth foot that was discovered) was in fact identified as a drowning victim. And it was found in SWEDEN, too, so it's totally unrelated to the events in British Columbia:
http://www.pr-inside.com/swedish-police-say-human-foot-identified-r740759.htm

Eight feet found, one identified as a disturbed man who probably committed suicide and another identified as a drowned tourist. One in Sweden, one in Washington state, and six others around the area of British Columbia but found in very different locations. Four of the feet -- half of the total -- matched up into two pairs from two individuals. That makes a total of two identified victims, and only four other people who are unidentified and from multiple locations, in a two year period, in a total of THREE different countries.

The report about the shoe with bone sticking out was a hoax, by the way. It's the one that was an animal foot, not a human one. The media reports are just working to try and make it seem more mysterious and sinister than it actually is.

 

[Paroxysm]

See the first paragraph from this ABC News story, noting the identification of one of the feet as an emotionally disturbed man from Vancouver:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/police-baffled-severed-feet-washed-ashore/Story?id=8948449&page=2

Also, ANOTHER of the feet (the sixth foot that was discovered) was in fact identified as a drowning victim. And it was found in SWEDEN, too, so it's totally unrelated to the events in British Columbia:
http://www.pr-inside.com/swedish-police-say-human-foot-identified-r740759.htm

Eight feet found, one identified as a disturbed man who probably committed suicide and another identified as a drowned tourist. One in Sweden, one in Washington state, and six others around the area of British Columbia but found in very different locations. Four of the feet -- half of the total -- matched up into two pairs from two individuals. That makes a total of two identified victims, and only four other people who are unidentified and from multiple locations, in a two year period, in a total of THREE different countries.

The report about the shoe with bone sticking out was a hoax, by the way. It's the one that was an animal foot, not a human one. The media reports are just working to try and make it seem more mysterious and sinister than it actually is.

Why are you even counting the foot from Sweden?????? It's not related!!!

http://www.vancouversun.com/Foot+found+Richmond+beach+seventh+foot+found+coast/2156192/story.html
http://www.vancouversun.com/maps/sixfeet.html