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The sixth "foot" discovered wearing an Adidas trainer on the shores of British Columbia earlier this week was not human, but rather "a skeletonised animal paw ... inserted into the shoe with a sock and packed with dried seaweed", the BC Coroners Service (BCCS) reports (pdf). The BCCS slammed the hoax as "reprehensible and very …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    I guess..

    Someone was having their leg pulled then?

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  2. Ben
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    aaargh..........the horror......

    Look Guv, here's my waste per mitt , i'me only a paw man, just trying to keep instep,

    toeing the line, no need to stick the Nike in.

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  3. M
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    Hang on

    I presume Canadian Mounties are organising foot patrols around the area.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    This makes me hopping mad !!

    Stupid hoaxes like this are a totally inappropriate form of humour.

    Someone seriously hopped over the line with this. Is a little respect asking too much ? This should be investigated and the person punished who put a foot wrong !!

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  5. Senor Beavis
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    I bet the shoe's on the other foot, now

    That is all

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  6. Senor Beavis
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    Or possibly it should give the cops paws for thought

    I thank you

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  7. Anonymous Cow Herd
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    I guess...

    ...at least now they won't have to put one foot in the grave...

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  8. Scott Broukell
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    I thought something.....

    ...was afoot.

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  9. Trevor
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    maybe....

    someone was trying to get a shoe-in to the investigation?

    It was no mean feet, this, and may have needed a personal trainer. Whoever it was, was trying to sock it to them.

    Where is the it ankle? angle, sorry, I meant angle.

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  10. Gianni Straniero
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    'Reprehensible and disrespectful'

    Quite. Very paw taste, if you ask me.

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  11. Anonymous Coward
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    Put their foot in it that time!

    coat...

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  12. Khaptain Silver badge

    I suppose...

    that these five people already have one foot in the grave, non

    The IT angle, who cares, it's Friday....

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  13. Jay
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    Re: I guess..

    I'd say the shoe was on the other foot.

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  14. Guy
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    Makes You....

    Paws for thought!!

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  15. Richard
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    Appropriate category ....

    .... filed under "Bootnotes"

    Obvious, really.

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  16. Anonymous Coward
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    I get a kick out of this

    This is a ridiculous investigation...these people obviously don't need a hand. Besides...whos going to foot the bill for this!!!

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  17. Anonymous Coward
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    Fashionable cat?

    What kind of animal was it?

    was it a cat?

    Perhaps it was no joke : puss in boot ?

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  18. Anonymous Coward
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    Reward Offered For the Safe Return

    One Adidas trainer, lost at sea recently during fishing trip off the British Columbia coast.

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  19. Tim
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    Has nobody found...

    ... the fancy-free?

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  20. Daniel

    heel be sorry he did that

    anorak.

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