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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: jendf on May 25, 2008, 12:54:02 PM
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All right feet and all wearing a running shoe. Should I be concerned?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_re_ca/canada_mystery_feet (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080524/ap_on_re_ca/canada_mystery_feet)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - For the fourth time in less than a year, a human foot in a running shoe has been found along the British Columbia coast.
Police said Friday that they don't know if there are any links between the cases of the four severed right feet found on island shorelines in the Vancouver region.
Authorities say they haven't reached any conclusions about the origin of the feet. But local speculation has been rife with some reports claiming they belonged to victims of violent crimes or a plane crash.
Police said a passer-by found the fourth human foot on Kirkland Island, about 15 miles south of Vancouver on Thursday.
"It's certainly a mystery we intend on solving," Police Constable Annie Linteau said. "It's certainly very unusual."
The first three feet washed ashore about 40 miles southwest of Vancouver on islands in the Strait of Georgia. The first foot was discovered last summer by beachcombers on Jedidiah Island. Days later, a foot was found inside a man's Reebok sneaker on nearby Gabriola Island. The remains of a third right foot were found on the east side of Valdez Island on Feb 8.
There is no evidence to suggest the foot — or any or the previous three — was forcibly removed, Linteau said.
"All four were wearing socks and were in a running shoe," Linteau said.
Two of the feet are size 12. Police have not released the size of the others.
British Columbia chief coroner Terry Smith said DNA profiles have been taken from the first three feet. He declined to comment on the investigation or the new finding.
Linteau said missing persons files were also being examined.
Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a former professor of oceanography at the University of Washington who studies floating objects, said when the third foot was found that the feet could have drifted from as far as 1,000 miles away. Ebbesmeyer said the feet could have been severed or detached from their bodies on their own.
May God bless their soles.
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Ummm yeah, no obvious connection, move along, nothing to see here....
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No need to be concerned jen, whoever is doing this is targetting people wearing a running shoe on the right foot. For your next jog simply go out wearing a nice pair of kitten heels.
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No need to be concerned jen, whoever is doing this is targetting people wearing a running shoe on the right foot. For your next jog simply go out wearing a nice pair of kitten heels.
LOL!
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No need to be concerned jen, whoever is doing this is targetting people wearing a running shoe on the right foot. For your next jog simply go out wearing a nice pair of kitten heels.
:lmao: That's usually Victim #3 in most horror films.
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No need to be concerned jen, whoever is doing this is targetting people wearing a running shoe on the right foot. For your next jog simply go out wearing a nice pair of kitten heels.
or crocs :rotf:
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No need to be concerned jen, whoever is doing this is targetting people wearing a running shoe on the right foot. For your next jog simply go out wearing a nice pair of kitten heels.
:lmao: That's usually Victim #3 in most horror films.
Hehe, while my plan will thwart this killer, it isn't without risk. :-)
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The feet didn't appear to be forceably removed???? Um....I guess they meant no tool marks to suggest dismemberment and that there must be four bodies out there with a missing foot.
Weird!!!!!!!!!
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The feet didn't appear to be forceably removed???? Um....I guess they meant no tool marks to suggest dismemberment and that there must be four bodies out there with a missing foot.
Weird!!!!!!!!!
I'm reminded of a ditty by John Valby (Dr. Dirty) . . .
Leprosy . . .
All my skin is falling off of me
I'm not half the man I used to be!
Oh, how did I get leprosy?
Sung to the tune of "Yesterday."
Hey, it's as viable a conclusion as any! :tongue:
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my first thought was "those are just the parts that the shark didn't eat", but that does sound a little too much to be random occurrences.
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A shark who likes joggers?
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A shark who likes joggers?
well, a shark or something. there's lotsa stuff in the ocean that will eat you, isn't there? I may not be the best judge of this, I avoid the ocean. :-)
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A shark who likes joggers?
well, a shark or something. there's lotsa stuff in the ocean that will eat you, isn't there? I may not be the best judge of this, I avoid the ocean. :-)
Go to your local library and rent Blue Planet: Seas of Life. It's a documentary series on the creatures that live in the water.
Holy moly, there are some nasty, scary specimens that live down there.
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A shark who likes joggers?
well, a shark or something. there's lotsa stuff in the ocean that will eat you, isn't there? I may not be the best judge of this, I avoid the ocean. :-)
Go to your local library and rent Blue Planet: Seas of Life. It's a documentary series on the creatures that live in the water.
Holy moly, there are some nasty, scary specimens that live down there.
no thanks. it's enough to know that there are things in the ocean as big as my house. I really don't have to think about it any further than that.
oh, wait. I went on a cruise once. that was a lot of fun. but a cruise ship, as far as I was able to ascertain, was an air conditioned sports bar floating on the ocean. I may as well have been in the desert for all of the water I actually saw.
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I hate water! I can't watch any movie or show that features water dangers. I'm such a wimp.
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To find the victim, just find a guy what was up until recently 6 feet tall, but is now 24" -- you know, short by 4 feet.
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I hate water! I can't watch any movie or show that features water dangers. I'm such a wimp.
I'm with you. the ocean is just nasty. and lakes, ponds, and rivers aren't any better. I don't trust stuff I can't see through.
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I hate water! I can't watch any movie or show that features water dangers. I'm such a wimp.
I can't go out too far before I get the heebyjeebies.
My weirdest/coolest experience in the ocean was snorkling at Haunuma Bay in Honolulu. The fish would nip at my skin while I swam. It took some getting used to. I had to mentally convince myself that there was no way they were going to eat me because they were no bigger than the palm of my hand. It was a challenge to get to that mindset.
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I hate water! I can't watch any movie or show that features water dangers. I'm such a wimp.
I can't go out too far before I get the heebyjeebies.
My weirdest/coolest experience in the ocean was snorkling at Haunuma Bay in Honolulu. The fish would nip at my skin while I swam. It took some getting used to. I had to mentally convince myself that there was no way they were going to eat me because they were no bigger than the palm of my hand. It was a challenge to get to that mindset.
on this cruise, there was a "swim with the rays" tour on one of the stops. you literally played with freaking rays. all of my friends wanted to go. I told them, "you people are out of your f*cking minds", and I never left the bar. hell, I didn't get off the ship on that stop.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia - For the fourth time in less than a year, a human head sporting a tattoo of Judy Garland's face on the forehead and wearing an Easter bonnet has been found along the British Columbia coast.
Police said Friday that they don't know if there are any links between the cases of the four severed heads found on island shorelines in the Vancouver region.
The police are dedicated to err on the side of caution. Misinformation or bad assumptions could be damaging to the case. It is best to say there are no links and proceed from there.
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I hate water! I can't watch any movie or show that features water dangers. I'm such a wimp.
I can't go out too far before I get the heebyjeebies.
I thought they were going to have to airlift me off the ferry in Galveston. I am not a boat person.
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I hate water! I can't watch any movie or show that features water dangers. I'm such a wimp.
I can't go out too far before I get the heebyjeebies.
My weirdest/coolest experience in the ocean was snorkling at Haunuma Bay in Honolulu. The fish would nip at my skin while I swam. It took some getting used to. I had to mentally convince myself that there was no way they were going to eat me because they were no bigger than the palm of my hand. It was a challenge to get to that mindset.
on this cruise, there was a "swim with the rays" tour on one of the stops. you literally played with freaking rays. all of my friends wanted to go. I told them, "you people are out of your f*cking minds", and I never left the bar. hell, I didn't get off the ship on that stop.
I would never swim with stingrays unless I was drunk or paid a lot of money. Especially now after hearing how Steve Irwin died.
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I hate water! I can't watch any movie or show that features water dangers. I'm such a wimp.
I can't go out too far before I get the heebyjeebies.
My weirdest/coolest experience in the ocean was snorkling at Haunuma Bay in Honolulu. The fish would nip at my skin while I swam. It took some getting used to. I had to mentally convince myself that there was no way they were going to eat me because they were no bigger than the palm of my hand. It was a challenge to get to that mindset.
on this cruise, there was a "swim with the rays" tour on one of the stops. you literally played with freaking rays. all of my friends wanted to go. I told them, "you people are out of your f*cking minds", and I never left the bar. hell, I didn't get off the ship on that stop.
I would never swim with stingrays unless I was drunk or paid a lot of money. Especially now after hearing how Steve Irwin died.
I don't know if they were sting rays or not; I'm not even sure how many kinds there are. and I didn't care. they were gross floppy ocean critters with teeth. that's all I had to hear. that they had teeth. that may have been my only question, in fact. "do these things have teeth?" :-)
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I hate water! I can't watch any movie or show that features water dangers. I'm such a wimp.
you aren't a wimp! you are simply aware of your position at the top of the food chain. :-)
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I don't know if they were sting rays or not; I'm not even sure how many kinds there are. and I didn't care. they were gross floppy ocean critters with teeth. that's all I had to hear. that they had teeth. that may have been my only question, in fact. "do these things have teeth?" :-)
LOL!
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I don't know if they were sting rays or not; I'm not even sure how many kinds there are. and I didn't care. they were gross floppy ocean critters with teeth. that's all I had to hear. that they had teeth. that may have been my only question, in fact. "do these things have teeth?" :-)
I'm not sure what this thing is, but my stepfather pulled it up while halibut (saltwater) fishing... we had to throw it back
(http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7520/notafishca7.jpg)
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I don't know if they were sting rays or not; I'm not even sure how many kinds there are. and I didn't care. they were gross floppy ocean critters with teeth. that's all I had to hear. that they had teeth. that may have been my only question, in fact. "do these things have teeth?" :-)
I'm not sure what this thing is, but my stepfather pulled it up while halibut (saltwater) fishing... we had to throw it back
(http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7520/notafishca7.jpg)
*shudder*
did it have teeth?
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I dunno, I was trying not to fall on my ass. It was a bumpy day.
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Oh my God! That's creepy and nasty.
Yeah WE, I'm with you. I can barely wade in the shallow end of a pool where I can see and touch the bottom. Lakes, rivers, oceans? Hell no! I nearly died when my husband took me to Mexico and we took a small boat out to an island for snorkeling. Naturally, I don't snorkel so I had to be content to stay in the boat with the guide while we bobbed around on the water. Funny, I don't get seasick though. It was still my own personal hell.
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Oh my God! That's creepy and nasty.
Yeah WE, I'm with you. I can barely wade in the shallow end of a pool where I can see and touch the bottom. Lakes, rivers, oceans? Hell no! I nearly died when my husband took me to Mexico and we took a small boat out to an island for snorkeling. Naturally, I don't snorkel so I had to be content to stay in the boat with the guide while we bobbed around on the water. Funny, I don't get seasick though. It was still my own personal hell.
I soooooooooooo agree. it ain't about seasick. it's about knowing our place on the planet. :-)
for heaven's sake, we know more about what's in outer space than we do about what's at the bottom of the ocean.