Fourth Foot Washed Ashore Near Vancouver

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law on May 24, 2008 at 12:01 am


This is kind of creepy: authorities in British Columbia, Canada, have found a right foot wearing a sock and sneaker washed ashore near Vancouver. This foot is the fourth discovered in just less than a year:

RCMP Cpl. Nycki Basra of Richmond said on Thursday that the case is one of the strangest she has heard of.

"Well, for us, it’s our first time. In my 12 years of service, this is the first time I’ve seen it," she said about the most recently found foot.

Police are working to trace where the foot came from, Basra said. It could be the result of a suicide, an accident, or foul play.

Link (Photo: CBC)


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18 comments to "Fourth Foot Washed Ashore Near Vancouver"

  1. Giocchino
    May 24th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    "It could be the result of a suicide, an accident, or foul play." doesn't that really encompass every option?

  2. Evil Pundit
    May 24th, 2008 at 4:10 am

    We'll just have to wait until the other shoe drops.

  3. PJ Guerra
    May 24th, 2008 at 4:11 am

    Seems weird to be a suicide when they're all RIGHT feet. But then it took years for a task force to even be formed over the Picton Case. We'll probably learn the answer in about 10 years.

  4. soubriquet
    May 24th, 2008 at 5:30 am

    Vancouverites!
    I suspect this is the work of metric campaigners, seeking to stamp out the foot.
    I recommend the police keep a sharp lookout for amputated inches too.

  5. Aye Chihuahua
    May 24th, 2008 at 6:25 am

    Authorities are working hard to get a leg up on the investigation.

  6. Howard
    May 24th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    This is just baffling. I mean, if four left feet washed up, we could assume a couple of bad dancers were thrown off a cruise ship. But four right feet? Just baffling.

  7. L
    May 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am

    This has been all over the local news. It's bizarre, to say the least.

    I find it a little hard to believe, though, that these feet just came off the bodies through decomposition, as the authorities say. If that's the case, why is it four right feet? Why no left feet? Why no other body parts?

  8. caitlin13
    May 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Creepy O_o

  9. caitlin13
    May 24th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    Also lol @ Howard

  10. Crake
    May 24th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Did they have a different color nail polish on each toe?

  11. fouro
    May 24th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    The Daniel Day-Lewis Killer. Baits victims with a free milkshake, drinks it while you're not looking, then gives you a vigorous pedicure.

  12. ardyjay
    May 24th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    I live on Gabriola, one of the islands were a foot was found. I think if people around the world started looking in shoes washed up on their beaches, they would start to find the same things. People fall in the water, and die, rot, and fall apart. The shoe and it's cargo float away. Maybe the right ones go one way, due to their shape, and the lefts go with the current elsewhere? The colder the water, the longer it takes to rot, so it may be less likely to find them further south.
    C'est la vie, or should I say- mort!

  13. Aye Chihuahua
    May 24th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    What happens to the socks that go missing from the dryer?

  14. J of The Sandhills
    May 24th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    either medical cadavers are being overthrown on cargo ship or med students are playing one of their sick games...

  15. ted
    May 25th, 2008 at 10:43 am

    Sounds like a viral ad for Dexter.

  16. Lore
    May 25th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    Weird.

  17. Lea
    May 25th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    Weird...I think L and J of the Sandhills are on the right track.
    There have to be bodies somewhere, or remnants of them or some other sort of trace evidence...or we can put it down to Med students do freaky things...

  18. sqrlking
    May 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    I wonder how long it will be before lots of people begin cutting off their right foot & throwing it in the ocean.


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