Severed feet washed up in Canada

A severed right foot, wearing a sneaker, was found on Friday washed up on the shore of Valdes Island in British Columbia, Canada. It's actually the third foot to turn up in six months on the small islands between Vancouver Island and the coast of B.C. The previous two were also right feet and sneakered. From The Province:

Jeff Dolen, B.C.'s assistant deputy chief coroner, said although it is somewhat common to find individual body parts, this is "the first instance of three such similar remains being discovered" in such proximity. "We'll be using pathology examinations and anthropology examinations to garner as much information as we possibly can about the remains," he said...

It is common for hands, feet and the head to detach as a body decomposes, said Gail Anderson, a forensic entomologist from Simon Fraser University who has submerged pigs in the ocean to study decomposition.

Generally, she said, those limbs do not float. "Obviously there's some sort of current picking up light items and washing them to those particular areas," said Anderson.

Link (via Fortean Times)

Discussion

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#1 posted by hubbledeej , February 18, 2008 2:22 PM

Related Canadian mishaps: a severed foot was also found along the Ottawa River this past fall.

#2 posted by Patrick Dodds

, February 18, 2008 2:28 PM

Submerging pigs to study decomposition. Apart from tossing off turkeys, anyone ever had a more horrible job than this?

#3 posted by Mister Staal , February 18, 2008 3:01 PM

What I found odd about this is that all three were right feet, with sneakers.

Are people mutating into mermen/mermaids and casting off their right foot in the process?

#4 posted by Beryllium , February 18, 2008 3:02 PM

I have some theories, but to me the most likely explanation is that Dexter is enjoying his BC vacation. :)

#5 posted by V , February 18, 2008 3:06 PM

Investigators are waiting for the other shoe to drop.

#6 posted by ZippySpincycle , February 18, 2008 3:23 PM

Come, Watson! The game is afoot!

#7 posted by High On Markers , February 18, 2008 3:43 PM

somebody got into mr. macgregor's garden, most likely

#8 posted by KiwiHopeful , February 18, 2008 3:48 PM

We've had two severed feet wash up on Sumner Beach here in Christchurch, NZ:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4397325a6530.html

I admit, though, three of a kind always beats a pair.

#9 posted by Anthony , February 18, 2008 5:22 PM

Perhaps the sneakers were the kind with air pockets in them, making them more likely to float. Anyway, I'd put my money on cargo-ship crews getting into drunken brawls, killing one another, and arranging speedy burials at sea.

#10 posted by ESQ , February 18, 2008 6:48 PM

Surf report: It's three feet and it stinks.

#11 posted by Xenu , February 18, 2008 7:18 PM

Must be from the cutoffmyfeet.com guy.

#12 posted by obdan , February 18, 2008 9:42 PM

Size 12?!?
3 of them?
all right foot

It's a Chinese barge of body parts.
Clearance items.
Think, "the island of misfit toys".

#13 posted by acb

, February 19, 2008 2:41 AM

The Depeditator strikes again?

#14 posted by AngelaE8654 , June 18, 2008 7:25 PM

LOL about the Dexter comment. :-D