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Sixth foot found in B.C. a hoax, coroner reveals
The B.C. Coroners Service has found that the sixth foot found washed ashore in British Columbia is not human. A provincial forensic pathologist and anthropologist have examined the shoe and remains and have determined that it is the skeleton of an animal paw that was inserted into the shoe along with a sock and packed with dried seaweed, the coroners service announced Thursday. Investigators said the foot was deliberately put there by pranksters.
The B.C. Coroners Service has concluded their investigation into the incident. The sixth foot, encased in a black Adidas shoe, was found on Wednesday around 10 a.m. in Campbell River, B.C., by a woman collecting rocks along the beach. The site is on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, 270 kilometres north of Victoria. All six of the feet have been found since August 2007 in the Strait of Georgia, which is sheltered from the Pacific Ocean by Vancouver Island, or nearby in the mouth of the Fraser River. All have been right feet except the fifth foot that was found Monday in Delta, B.C. Police have only confirmed that the second foot found was a size 12 foot in a Reebok shoe. The last two feet were found washed up in the delta of the Fraser River just south of Vancouver. The other three were discovered on islands between 100 and 200 kilometres south of Campbell River in the Strait of Georgia that separates Vancouver Island from the mainland. Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-06-20 |
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