Three severed right feet have washed ashore on the Gulf Islands in the past six months, in what police say is one of the most bizarre cases in recent memory. The latest foot, still in its sneaker, was found last Friday on Valdes Island, a small community near Nanaimo that does not have regular ferry service and is accessible only by private boat or float plane. RCMP say they’re not sure whether foul play is involved and are trying to match any missing-person cases to the severed foot. Two other right feet, both in size 12 men’s sneakers, washed ashore on Gabriola and Jedediah islands last August. RCMP collected DNA from the grisly remains but could not match them to anyone in police databases. The three islands are within 60 kilometres of each other.
“It is unusual,” said RCMP spokeswoman Const. Annie Linteau. “We are in the preliminary stages of this particular investigation, and of course we will not enter into speculation.” Although it is somewhat common to find individual body parts, Dolen said this would be “the first instance of three such similar remains being discovered” in such proximity. A body in the ocean will first sink and then, depending on the depth, float back to the surface as it becomes bloated with gas. 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 Saanich Inlet to study ocean decomposition. But generally, those limbs do not float, she said.
Anyone care to speculate? Someone get Mulder and Scully on the phone.
Sounds like the investigation is…
off…
on…
the…
right…
foot…
Poor reporting. They don’t tells us the size of the third right foot. The first two right feet were both size 12, suggesting they could have come from the same person.
It could be a warning to turn back.
Should the editor green light a barrage of puns?
Well, I would speculate that Nike is using advanced nanotechnology to play god in the cloning of sexually promiscuous abstinence only teenagers with right feet only. Its the only theory that pulls all the facts together.
How would the same person have two right feet…
A salesman got his foot in the door
or
Put your best foot forward and…
gulf islands???….
And someone somewhere has 3 left feet…
How did they know it was the right foot?
It might have been the wrong foot.
i think someone it taking the hokey pokey way too seriously….
this could be a long story if it were centipede feet….
pj
Too bad it’s not Christmas, they make the perfect stocking stuffer.
The best guess is that they are the remains of victims of a float plane crash a year or so back. The plane has been recovered but the bodies have not. The location of the crash as well as local currents and tides would make it a possibility.
LOL #13
I agree. Judge Jewdy wins.
It is aliens testing on the abductees on which leg are our hearing organs located…
I blame the Scientologists.
It’s Bush’s fault…It must be…everything else is.
Aye carumba, these AREN’T the Gulf Islands. I grew up in this area, there are only 5 Gulf Islands: Salt Spring, Mayne, Saturna, Galiano, and North and South Pender Islands.
I wish reporters would do their homework.
Was Christy Brown a size 12?
Oh gawd the puns..and bobbo did a funny !! I’m in absolute heaven..or heaving..as you will !
Seriously, the statement said : “Although it is somewhat common to find individual body parts..”
I gotta ask, how common ?!? They got a crime problem up there or what ??
is anybody else humming “footloose”?
pj
I give Judge Jewdy first place.
Honorable mention to AdmFubar.
I agree Judge Judy wins.
need to find an adequate map of the water/wave patterns in that area to find out where they may have came from
also, I agree, JJ wins
20 Skippy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Islands
Southern Gulf Islands
Gabriola Island
Galiano Island
Kuper Island
Mayne Island
North and South Pender Islands
Saltspring Island
Saturna Island
Thetis Island
Valdes Island
Northern Gulf Islands
Denman Island
Hornby Island
Lasqueti Island
Texada Island
RCMP/Coroner have never collected DNA for the four men still missing from the floatplane crash off Quadra in ’05. When you add the fact that the families’ were dragging the ocean floor to recover the engine starting in July ’07 (just weeks before the first foot surfaced), it seems like an even more obvious connection.
Maybe now the RCMP will get DNA samples from close family members, assuming everyone would like some answers to this.
RBG
So for all the people I know still have their right foot.
I heard a fellow left his left foot somewhere but I can neither confirm nor deny that story.