Is this an example of an urban leg-end?

IGMC

Steve

I have been looking for my foot for ages... How can I get it back?

"Foot Locker"

...that given that all but one of the feet was a right foot, the left foot wasn't actually a left at all. It's much more likely that the 'left' foot actually belonged to some guy who couldn't dance....

On the other hand, there is potentially some black market trade going on where someone with two left feet can order a new right foot on t'interweb. Obviously, the vessel carrying all the orders was involved in some sort of mishap - if it hadn't happened, we could potentially have been investigating a spate of left feet washing up off the coast of Devon, unwanted after the 'dancing op'...

So, the feet weren't cut off, they were ripped off.

I don't know of many sharks with opposable thumbs, so who's doing the ripping? Unless someone can come up with another explanation as to why only feet are turning up (and mostly right ones at that)? <perhaps the right shoes are inedible>

This is proof that big foot exists. He is grabbing stray hikers, holding them by the feet as he eats them, then throws away the foot he was holding. The left foot is proof that he is ambidextrous.

Alternatively it could be a big squid (kraken) that is taking sailors and eating some but throwing away the foot which he/she holds with a tentacle.

Sandra Malone, who recounted: "I got the chills right away. You know, I got pretty grossed out."

Had she been watching Grease?

"I got chills, they're multiplying".

I wonder is grossed out = losing control?

Remember the hand that came alive when the temperature rose. Maybe these feet will start walking by themselves once out of the water. Maybe they're even beginning to breed! Handy for people with foot fetishes though.

Boots - Shoes - Feet, I get it!

"The object will ultimately be examined by a forensic pathologist in attempts to determine the source of the foot"

Surely the source of the foot was a leg?

The coast of BC includes some pretty sparsely populated areas. If 6 of these feet have been located, there surely must be many more lying around waiting to be found.

Alternative headline ... Going to beach no way to get ahead

LOL

The games afoot.

a-foot

I read an article on this topic a few months ago which said that as part of the decomposition process, limbs, feet etc often fall off. It seems that these feet are just naturally detaching from their owners bodies as they decompose. It's surprising there hasn't been any other limbs though.

the register find it's reader that comment? some of those jokes were dreadful. Footage indeed!

Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.

Or so sayeth the woman who found it:

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=f5fb1894-df01-4b58-97d8-b9ee3c88a9ac

"You could see the two bones sticking right above the ankle part of the shoe and it was straight. It didn't look jagged. It looked like it had been cut."

@Andy Gibson:

With a name like Sandra Mallone, I think a character from Grease is right on the mark...

It's electrifying!

I think this might be a case of coastal erosion ...... of the foothills. If it spreads to the headlands this will get ridiculous !

Yes, I am ashamed of myself.

...since four casualties don't normally have five right feet.

You'd think they could tell *something* from the trainers. Were they sport trainers or fashion ones, genuine branded or fake, same month's style or all different ages, what secret compartments for samples of dodgy white powders, kinda thing.

Looks like a conspiracy to me.

If only the "X-Files" production team never left Vancouver for Hollywood. Mulder and Scully could have cracked this case already.

That sole were actually overfished, there seems plenty of them over in BC.

Which is why they're almost all right feet.

If all we're getting are right feet, I wonder what's left?

the other show to drop...this is your sign.

Since they are on the metric system, Canadians obviously have no use for feet, so they are apparently just discarding them.

-Chris

I once found 3 feet in my yard.

going now...

Dexter season 3 trailer?

"Dexter moves to Canadia after Florida gets too hot...goes after all BC's undiscovered serial killers"

Stuck between halo and horns - Dexter is conflicting good/evil...

... Six Feet Under gag...

"Remains found in a shoe near Campbell River, B.C., Wednesday are not human, the B.C. Coroners Service said Thursday.

"The BCCS, along with a forensic pathologist and an anthropologist, examined the remains and determined that an animal-paw skeleton had been inserted into the shoe with a sock and packed with dried seaweed, according to a press release."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080619.wfoot0619/BNStory/National/home

I blame it all on binge drinking. It results in people getting legless.

Why would they waste their time looking for the non-leg source of the foot?

Is someone seriously going to be charged for pulling their leg?