Canada: Found 5th foot.

[Desmond Hawkins]

I know a girl who is an illegal alien from Canada. If it such a great country why doesn't she go back to Manitoba?

Not the nicest/most prosperous of the ten provinces.





Joking about Manitoba. Though I heard Winnipeg can be rough.

 

[lutzj]

It seems significant that this one is a left foot. The first 4 were right feet.

So, minimum 4 pedectomies, right?

 

[OttoManD]

So, minimum 4 pedectomies, right?

I think so... still nothing on whether this one is a match for any of the others.

Joking about Manitoba. Though I heard Winnipeg can be rough.

haha its actually quite nice in the summer! I had no idea people were so rough on Manitoba.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Another right foot found. (6 total feet, 5 rights, 1 left)

Spoiler :

Sixth severed foot surfaces off Canadian coast

Story Highlights
-At least five other feet since August that have surfaced off Canadian shore
-The latest foot showed up in a shoe, authorities say
-It could takes weeks or months to use DNA science to identify the body parts
-Mystery has garnered attention around the world

(CNN) -- A severed foot -- the sixth in 11 months -- washed up on the shore of a Canadian island on Wednesday, police said.

The right foot was found by a woman walking on the beach, said Sgt. Mike Tresoor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

"A local citizen walking on a beach in Tyee Spit located what appears to be human remains of a right foot in an approximate size 10 black Adidas running shoe," police said in a written statement.

The foot will be examined by a forensic pathologist, and DNA testing will be requested, said the statement posted on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Web site.

Sandra Malone, manager of the Thunderbird RV Park and Campground on the spit, said a woman came in about 10:30 a.m. and asked her to call police, saying she had found the shoe with the foot inside it.

While waiting for police, Malone said, she walked to the beach with the woman and saw it for herself.

"You could see the foot that's inside the running shoe," she said. "The leg bones were coming out of the running shoe about 3 to 4 inches. There were no tissues or anything attached."

She said seaweed was wrapped around the top of the running shoe, making it hard to tell whether any tissue was inside the shoe. "I got close enough," she said.

But she said the foot appeared to have been deliberately severed, as the bones "had been cut clean across."

The foot was the sixth discovered on shorelines in the area since August, according to local police and media reports. Another foot -- a left foot still in a shoe -- was found Monday on the shore of Westham Island, south of Vancouver. Police said it was taken to a coroner for DNA testing.

"Our first step is to establish identity," said Constable Sharlene Brooks of the Delta Police Department in British Columbia. "It is a little mysterious, but we don't know if it is linked to others."

The Vancouver Sun newspaper said the first four feet found in the area were all right feet, making the foot found Monday the only left foot.

Although the gruesome finds have drawn international attention, police said it may take some time to unravel the mystery.

"We suffer from the 'CSI' effect: People think this can happen very quickly," Brooks said. "It could take weeks or months. And even if we get a DNA sample, we need a sample to match it with."

The mystery has caused a stir and led to many rumors, locals say. One newspaper has began investigating a rash of young men who have gone missing in the area.

Some have wondered whether the feet could belong to five men who were in a plane that crashed three years ago in the waterway where the feet were found.

Some of those men's relatives were at the Campbell River site on Wednesday.

"It's a constant reminder every time, from the time the first foot washed up," said Kirsten Stevens, whose husband, Dave, died in the crash. Although her husband's body was located, Stevens said, the other men's relatives still are awaiting answers. They never recovered their loved ones' remains.

"It reopens the wound every single time," she said.

"If it's not us, it's somebody else's loved one, that they don't know. ... We'd like to know," said Sally Feast, sister of pilot Arnold Feast. "We'd like to put something to rest."

Diane Selkirk, a freelance writer who lives near where one foot was found, said the discoveries have been a hot topic of conversation.

"At first, the talk about it was really humorous, but as more feet turned up, the talk became sinister," she added. "These are pristine islands, not the place where you would expect to find a bunch of severed feet."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/18/canada.feet/index.html

If it is from the plane crash, then it's possible they found the right foot from all 5 victims. Odd that they found so many right feet compared to left feet, though.

 

[emzie]

Of course, there's no shortage of illegal Americans up here, happens every time you have a war.

I was illegal for a while actually... and I worked as a day labourer. The irony of that wasn't lost on me.

 

[holiday_hawk]

Another right foot found. (6 total feet, 5 rights, 1 left)



http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/18/canada.feet/index.html

If it is from the plane crash, then it's possible they found the right foot from all 5 victims. Odd that they found so many right feet compared to left feet, though.

Would a foot stay intact after that long?

 

[Bamspeedy]

Would a foot stay intact after that long?

Well now with the updated story that the plane crash was 3 years ago, and one of those bodies were found (no mention whether his body was missing the feet), I am beginning to think the feet are not from the plane crash.

 

[holiday_hawk]

Well now with the updated story that the plane crash was 3 years ago, and one of those bodies were found (no mention whether his body was missing the feet), I am beginning to think the feet are not from the plane crash.

If these are murders then this guy makes Hannibal Lecture look sane.....

 

[Shaihulud]

A foot would not remain whole after 5 years at sea, this is not due to any real experience of course.....Lots of things in seas would have picked it apart, and the wave action.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Sixth foot was a hoax!

It was an animal paw.

Spoiler :

Latest floating 'foot' turns out to be a hoax

Story Highlights
-NEW: Sixth severed "foot" actually was animal paw, authorities say
-Hoax uncovered as DNA, other forensic tests begin
-At least five other feet since August have surfaced off Canadian shore
-Mystery has garnered attention around the world

(CNN) -- What was believed to be the sixth human foot to wash up on the shores of British Columbia in recent months proved to be a fake, authorities said Thursday.

A "skeletonized animal paw" had been placed in a sock and athletic shoe that was packed with dried seaweed, the British Columbia Coroners Service announced.

The hoax was uncovered as the coroner's office began DNA and other forensic tests on the supposed foot in an attempt to identify the person to whom it belonged.

The coroners service, a forensic pathologist and an anthropologist all examined the shoe and remains before declaring it a fake.

"It is the position of BCCS that this type of hoax is reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons," authorities said in a written statement. "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."

Police initially believed that a right human foot had been found in a man's size 10 black Adidas athletic shoe. The grisly discovery was made Wednesday. Watch woman talk about the mystery »

The find came amid conjecture over the source of five other severed human feet that have been found along the Canadian province's Pacific coast in the past 11 months. Authorities are continuing to investigate multiple possibilities on the origin of the feet, from foul play to the possibility that they belonged to victims of a plane crash.

"We are exploring the possibility that it could be people who may have drowned," said Annie Linteau, a spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "It could be missing fishermen. It could be the remains of people who may have died in a plane crash."

When asked about the suspicion of foul play, Linteau noted that the first four feet contained no tool marks and were therefore deemed not to have been severed.

A woman walking on the beach reported the sixth find, said Sgt. Mike Tresoor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Sandra Malone, manager of the Thunderbird RV Park and Campground on the Tyee Spit, said a woman came in about 10:30 a.m. and asked her to call police, saying she had found the shoe with the foot inside it.

While waiting for police, Malone said, she walked to the beach with the woman and saw it for herself.

"The leg bones were coming out of the running shoe about 3 to 4 inches," she said. "There were no tissues or anything attached."

She said seaweed was wrapped around the top of the running shoe, making it hard to tell whether any tissue was inside the shoe. But she said the foot appeared to have been deliberately severed, as the bones "had been cut clean across."

Another foot -- a left foot still in a shoe -- was found Monday on the shore of Westham Island, south of Vancouver. Police said it was taken to a coroner for DNA testing.

The Vancouver Sun newspaper said the first four feet found were all right feet, making the foot found Monday the only left foot.

Experts told The Sun there could be explanations that did not suggest foul play.

Ian Buckingham, a retired coroner, told the newspaper the ankle joint can come apart easily if a body is decomposing at sea.

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an expert on ocean currents, told The Sun a foot wearing a buoyant athletic shoe could float as far as 1,000 miles.

Although the gruesome finds have drawn international attention, police said it may take some time to unravel the mystery.

"We suffer from the 'CSI' effect: People think this can happen very quickly," Brooks said. "It could take weeks or months. And even if we get a DNA sample, we need a sample to match it with."

The mystery has caused a stir and led to many rumors, locals say. One newspaper has began investigating a rash of young men who have gone missing in the area.

Some have wondered whether the feet could belong to five men who were in a plane that crashed three years ago in the waterway where the feet were found.

Some of those men's relatives were at the Campbell River site on Wednesday.

"It's a constant reminder every time, from the time the first foot washed up," said Kirsten Stevens, whose husband, Dave, died in the crash. Although her husband's body was located, Stevens said, the other men's relatives never recovered their loved ones' remains.

"It reopens the wound every single time," she said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/19/canada.feet/index.html

 

[Newbunkle]

So... we're searching for some kind of human-beetle hybrid with a streak of bad luck. *smokes pipe*

 

[Ansar]

Four rights DO make a left!

 

[nonconformist]

The game is afoot, Watson!

 

[LesCanadiens]

I hope they find the murderer and lay him down by the heels.

 

[kaos429]

Any chance this has something to do with Pickton, the pig farmer lunatik?