The foot, encased in a shoe thought to be a right, was spotted by a woman collecting rocks for a craft project at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at Tyee Spit just north of the Argonaut Wharf. The woman asked Sandra Malone, the manager of the Thunderpark RV Park to call RCMP, who arrived within 10 minutes with a forensic team.
"She thought 'Oh, someone lost a shoe,' and then she looked up closer at it and you could see the bone sticking up from the front," said Malone.
While waiting for the RCMP to arrive, Malone and her husband went to look at the foot, which was lying above the high tide line, about a metre from the grass, covered in seaweed.
Malone said the black running shoe the foot was encased was large and looked like a man's. Two bones were sticking out by three to four inches from the shoe's ankle opening. They appeared to have been cut.
"Oh my God, this is close to home. It just makes you think something is going on in this area," said Malone. "Obviously people are losing their feet, they've got to be dying somewhere."
The foot is the sixth found in coastal waters since last August. The fifth was found by two walkers on Monday, floating off the water in Westham Island in Ladner.
The first five included four right feet and one left foot.
RCMP have yet to comment on the latest discovery.
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ReplyDeleteI've commented on this subject before, but it just occurred to me that there may be yet another possibility not yet considered.
Is it possible it's all a prank? Could it be that some pranksters are digging into graves, taking feet off corpses, and throwing them in this general area?
I wonder if the authorities might want to check graveyards for tampering.
I could almost hope this is the case; it's better than some of the alternatives.
You might want to pass this suggestion on to the authorities.
I hope they do get to the bottom of this entire matter - and soon. Of course, this kind of investigation can never be done quickly. I wish them the best.
Yes, it sounds more like a prank than anything else, since no one with missing feet seems to have lodged a complain so far and the police seem to be strangely silent as to the details...
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