6th foot found is a hoax
Andrew Bourke says:
6th foot discovered in British Columbia as previously reported is a hoax.LinkIt doesn't make the story of the previous five any less disturbing or mysterious, but there can be a plausible explanation - there was a crash of a float plane in 2005.
Five people dead and no bodies recovered.
It's common for feet to be severed in a plane crash and all the feet so-far recovered were wearing sneakers - with buoyant soles so they float.
That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it.
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Umm unless i'm mistaken, how would that make it a hoax? It would be a hoax if the foot were made of say, plastic, and shoved in a shoe and someone pretended to find it. Its still a real, severed foot, just maybe unrelated to the others.
#1: The link is inaccurate; the 6th foot was an animal foot wrapped in a sock, packed in an Adidas.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/06/19/bc-foot-no-human.html
#2 - good catch, but the 1st link is just to an "as previously reported" thing on BoingBoing - the main story link is the last one in the post where it links to a CNN report of the hoax.
Also, the article I linked points out that one of the feet recovered (the most-recent right foot) was a woman's foot. The 2005 plane crash had no women on board.
Additionally, while I don't profess to know what loggers wear in their free time (*ahem* especially when leaping from tree to tree while floating down the mighty rivers of British Columbia), I am certain that they wear fairly heavy boots while working. Not running shoes.
#3: Fair point, but a severed animal foot is on a whole other level of weirdness than a severed human foot. Hunting is a big thing up that way, so it wouldn't be too hard to find a skeletonized animal foot in a non-nefarious way. Hence, hoax, unless animals have taken to wearing socks & shoes.
#4 - and those loggers weren't working - they were travelling by plane.
Hence, hoax, unless animals have taken to wearing socks & shoes.
Jeez, Beryllium, have you been hiding out on Mars?
Oh those wacky Canadians! With your... severed foot jokes... and, stuff...
Sigh. De-feeted by the truth.
#5, Ok - I don't understand this - I think the 6th (paw?) is a hoax too. I don't get where you're going (or coming from) with that comment. And as an aside - hunting is *not* a "big thing" around there. I've lived there. There's lots of pot, hippies and Americans fishing for salmon - hunting is popular much further north. People are too environmental in Southern and Central BC for hunting.
#4 - You have a point, if it is indeed a woman's foot that was found. Oh wait - the 6th (animal foot) was reported to be a woman's foot. So 1 through 5 are male feet, all left and thus all from different people.
Also - I'm wrong to state that all shoes were sneakers - but all feet found had shoes with rubber soles and were buoyant.
Oh those wacky Canadians! With your... severed foot jokes... and, stuff...
They're known for their arch humor.
Very nice, Antinous.
I know somone from Campbell River so was watching the news on the off chance that they'd gone beach combing,and hoping they weren't missing a foot.
#10: You must not have gotten out of Vancouver proper very often during your stay, then. I grew up in the Fraser Valley and hunting trips were (and remain) commonplace there (albeit not for me).
PS: Not to be a wet blanket, but given the region's recent issues with dismemberment related murders, I'm perturbed that someone from the area thought that the discovery of another foot would be hilarious. I'll cop to having laughed at some of the puns that have cropped up in these threads, and I can see why outside media's treating this as a "news of the weird" story, but still...
What are the chances that five unique feet from a plane crash would wash ashore, and not any matching pairs?
Every time I see these stories I think about Numb3rs on TV -- that guy'd be mapping out tides and currents and would have the origination point in no time.
A number of people are making references to the floatplane crash, which would be an ideal link to these feet. If it weren't for the fact that the most recent feet were found in the river, and not along the gulf islands, where the floatplane crash was (the floatplane crash was actually a short distance from the hoaxed 6th foot). The feet are probably coming down the river, potentially from Annacis Island or further up. My armchair anaylsis, worth not a penny more than any other armchair guesser, points to Annacis Island as being a dumping ground for bodies. Its mainly industrial and while there are always trucks and the like moving through it, get nearer the ends and it can get pretty quiet, a body dump is doable there. Weight the body and move on, it would be a long time before any evidence (read feet in shoes) show up, so this could have been done weeks or months ago.
Note there has been a rumour that a journalist for the CBC has been looking at a link between the disappearances of young athletic males and these feet turning up. But then thats a rumour about a possibility, and can't be used as any sort of establishment that this is what is happening. Plus as another poster mentioned one foot that was found was linked to a woman.
But I am still thinking Annacis Island personally. But again I am not an expert, just an armchair observer.
well, you know canada's on the metric system, they don't use feet any more.
What is it, a sinister imperial plot Gzuckier?
According to the article the body of one of the float plane passengers was found after the accident ...so if the feet were from five different people that still leaves you with one extra foot that can't be attributed to any of the crash victims.
(assuming the body was intact)
Note there has been a rumour that a journalist for the CBC has been looking at a link between the disappearances of young athletic males and these feet turning up.
Interesting. Here in Minneapolis a few years ago there were a few young men who ended up in the Mississippi. It was rumored to have been the work of a serial killer but I don't recall if the police confirmed that. Perhaps he moved on, if it is indeed the same MO.
Maybe one of the victims was a werewolf?
Also, probably not a plane crash, considering the sneakers. Shoes (not to mention other clothes) are often blown off upon impact; see the chapter on plane crashes in "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach. One sneaker might be explained away, but five?
In Canada foots comes in bags.
How can they be the floatplane feet, when the article you posted said that one of the bodies from that crash was recovered?
Also.. The floatplane only works if all the feet are basically skeletal. It's pretty hard for flesh to be underwater for three years and not be reduced to skeleton. More than that... just the feet from the accident? Highly unlikely. Holmes wouldn't buy it.
Another reason not to adopt unsightly overstyled athletic footwear for regular use. When they start discovering severed feet in Ferragamo loafers I'll be worrying. Or missing.
the feet are not from the plane crash, DNA didn't match any of the missing passengers. Best guess? 2004 Asian tsunami victims.
It's pretty hard for flesh to be underwater for three years and not be reduced to skeleton.
Near freezing temperatures and low oxygen at depth? Meat could keep for decades.
The Vancouver Sun is reporting:
"(...) a DNA link has been ruled out between three feet found earlier and two of the four crash victims whose bodies are still missing."
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=937a22df-dc1d-4fa3-a23b-2f7ac62c3d5d
A faux paw, as it were.
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