Yet another disembodied foot in a shoe washed up on a British Columbia beach

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/yet-another-disembodied-foot-i.html

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Sounds like the police are being defeeted by this case.

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Wrong body part for Valentine’s Day, The Sea.

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The hell? This is a mystery every goddam year, and then it’s solved, and then when it’s a slow news day, it’s a mystery all over again.

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Who did it belong to that nobody reported them missing?

Probably a drifter I guess

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EYE SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

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Proof of climate change? The waters have clearly gained 15 feet!
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Critical thinking skills are not my forte. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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More than a dozen disembodied feet have washed ashore, but it’s about the number we’d expect. But how about that!

That’s the story, if it counts as a story.

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OK, I have a theory.

Guy owns a funeral home, selling full sized coffins. Orders in cheaper, smaller sized coffins from like China or somewhere. Has to cut off the feet to get the body to fit. Gets careless with disposing of the feet and thus they was up on shore at some point.

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Something smelly is afoot with that though. They’d be barefoot then unless putting them in a shoe as cover was part of the plan (most people don’t show up at a funeral home in their nikes). Also pretty sure they could just cremate whatever they didn’t want found. It’s got to be some serial killer out there but the cops have no leads so they don’t want people to freak out.

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As much as I want to say serial killer, i’m going with serial killer of the sea (orca).

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My answer is as mundane as it is boring and logical.

  1. Let’s say you meet your end in the ocean. A particular part of the ocean in/around British Columbia. Maybe it’s suicide, maybe you fell off a bridge, maybe you’re just a guy on a crab boat who really should’ve tied themselves off. Bottom line, a helluva lot of people drown around there for non-murderous reasons.

  2. You wore sneakers that day. Good choice, grippy surface under wet conditions. In the end, you’re a corpse in sneakers.

  3. The nature of the sea processes your delicious corpse. Crabs, gulls, sharks, whatnot. All take a bite, except for those parts encased in foul-tasting plastic and rubber. Blech. Foot separates from remains, intact.

  4. Sneakers float. Sneakers with feet in them float.

  5. Like any good piece of buoyant detritus, the sneaker-with-foot eventually washes ashore. Voila!

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Does the perpetrator know these are available?

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/11/realistic-rubber-feet.htmlq

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exactly this, feet come off decaying/scavenged bodies in the ocean and the feet float due to the sneakers. current wash anything and everything up to certain beaches. nothing odd. noting afoot. no string of foot murders or anything. just that people die in the ocean.

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Yes, that’s pretty much what the original post states.

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Oh, I know. I was just trying to reinforce the “non-murderous” part.

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are those the kind of feet that have an … orriface?

(asking for a friend)

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Yes!

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Right, but like a lot of folks here I’m wondering “how is this still a big story?”

It was interesting and unnerving for a while, but once the realities of Puget Sound currents, body decomposition and sneaker buoyancy were explained it stopped being an unsolved puzzle.

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It’s not really a “big story” so much as an interesting footnote.

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