http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...neaker-rotting-foot-SIXTEENTH-nine-years.htmlA couple spending the day on a picturesque Canadian beach this weekend came across something truly horrifying.
Charlotte Stevens was walking on Vancouver Island's Botanical Beach on Sunday when she says she and her husband came across a single running shoe.
Upon further inspection, they found that whoever last wore the New Balance sneaker never took it off because a foot was still inside and the rest of the poor soul's body was nowhere in sight.
'He picked it up and brought it out on to the beach, and we had a look at it for about five minutes and we thought, it almost looks like there is an actual foot bone in it,' Stevens told CBC.
The Stevens' discovery was the sixteenth time in the last nine years that shoes with severed feet have been found after washing up on shores in British Columbia and Washington state.
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While the number may seem like a lot, authorities say there is no cause for concern. Of the thirteen found in British Columbia, 10 have been linked to suicides or accidents. Still, foul play hasn't been ruled out in the cases that haven't been solved either.
'I believe most of these were determined to be suicides,' regional coroner Matt Brown said. 'In this case, we don't believe there is anything to indicate any level of suspicion at this time.'
Brown added that the foot appeared to have 'disarticulated' naturally after a period of being submerged in the water.
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And some forensics experts find the apparent trend suspicious.
'There are so many coincidences taking place,' forensics consultant Mark Mendelson told the Daily Beast in 2011. 'Everybody who jumps off a bridge is wearing runners?…Until you can show me something pathologically concrete that this is a natural separation of that foot from a body, then I'm saying you've got to think dirty.'
Yeah, I thought the conclusion was the shoe kept the foot together, plus sneakers float.Thought this shit was settled, these are suicides, people jumpin off bridges.
he BC Coroner Service has confirmed that a second foot that washed up on a beach this month is human.
On February 12th a second running shoe with a human foot inside was found on Botanical Beach. On February 7th a foot was also found on the same beach by a hiker. The person who found the second foot was aware of the earlier finding and immediately contacted authorities.
“The shoes involved are men’s New Balance running shoes, blue and black in colour, size 12. This type of shoe was first sold in North America in March 2013 which implies that the shoe’s owner died at some point between March 2013 and December 2015,” said the BC Coroner in a statement.
An examination suggests that both feet disarticulated naturally from the rest of the body, a result of prolonged immersion in water. There is no indication of trauma or of mechanical severance of the feet. The Identification Unit of the BC Coroners Service will now continue to work to identify the person and cause of death.
These are the 13th and 14th feet that have washed up along the B.C. coastline since 2007. The coroner has been able to identify 10 of the previous 12 feet, which belonged to seven people. None of the cases involved foul play.
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Since 2007, 12 human feet clad in running shoes have been found on the shores of British Columbia, from Jedediah Island to Botanical Beach. So far, the provincial coroner’s office has identified eight of the 12. Of those eight, two were pairs. The remaining lone feet, the coroner determined, belonged to men.
It had been nearly four years since a foot sighting, and then on 7 February a new one washed ashore, discovered by a hiker along Vancouver Island’s Botanical Beach. Five days later, another one appeared. The coroner’s office confirmed they were a pair.
After so many years, the arrival of human feet on the province’s shores is old news. But when they started to be discovered in 2007, speculation about where they came from ran rampant and pranksters even planted fake feet on the shores, just to add fuel to the fire.
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Since the first foot was discovered, theories about the feet have been numerous and creative. In 2008, a Toronto Star article said that “speculation ranges from natural disasters, such as the tsunami of 2004, to the work of drug dealers, serial killers and human traffickers”.
In 2008, the man who found the fifth foot told the Guardian he suspected foul play: “There’s someone doing this all right. Think about it, if they tied a chain around someone’s ankle and threw them overboard, the foot would just pop off. That could explain it. Maybe they got a lot of bodies stored up in a container and they got washed out. We don’t know. There’s a lot of stuff goes on over there,” he said.
But McLintock said this is not the work of a serial killer or the result of alien abductions. The coroner’s office has ruled that all of the identified individuals committed suicide or died accidentally, most likely due to storms near the coast.
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McLintock said their work suggests the feet are separating from the bodies during decomposition. This occurs more quickly underwater than it would on land.
“The forensic anthropologists can be really sure of that because they can tell looking at the ends of the bones whether they disarticulated naturally or whether there’s any sign that any mechanical force has been applied to them, whether there’s any trauma, whether there’s any tool marks on them,” she said. “And none of them have had anything like that. All the evidence is pointed to just this natural articulation process.”
But some people still have questions – like why did the feet only start turning up after 2007? The answer may be advancing shoe technology. More and more sports shoes are using air pockets or light foam in their designs, which “eventually allows them to be light enough to float and to wash up on shore”.
The coast of British Columbia sees many of these cases because of tide and current patterns, according to McLintock. And while the odd foot pops up elsewhere in the world – for example, several have come ashore in Washington State – British Columbia remains in the spotlight. But McLintock has no doubt that this occurs worldwide, and not just on her coast.
“Presumably there probably are a bunch of running shoes bouncing around out there,” she said. “But no one’s ever going to find them.”
There are people STARVING in China.....and you have feet just washing ashore.
Now think about that.....
How many people go missing in accidents and not get reported? Come on
This is bullshit ..
I think drug dealers ..I wish they would tell us the nationality's of this feet
DNA can say if they are white / black etc
LOTS of destitute/homeless/desperate people have tottally broken ties with friends/family. This is quite common and can be a permanent thing or the type of deal where a family member wont hear or have contact with such a person for years. Totally reasonable and believable that someone could have committed suicide or just got swept away and no one would be the wiser.