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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sixth foot found in B.C. a ‘hoax,’ coroner reveals
2008-06-20
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.
Can't get anything past the investigators ...
'This type of hoax is reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons,' said a news release from the service. 'It fuels inappropriate speculation and creates undue anxiety for families and communities while wasting valuable investigative time and resources that could be spent on the main investigations.'

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

#5  perhaps the animal was wearing the shoe. Probably to cross the road. Occam's Razor and all that.....
Posted by: Frank G   2008-06-20 22:51  

#4  Bet the fat broad is pissed.
Posted by: HalfEmpty   2008-06-20 20:52  

#3  So how many feet in a yard, Blondie?
Ummmmmmmmm...how many people are standing in it?
Posted by: tu3031   2008-06-20 17:03  

#2  McZoid How much deep thought went into the discovery that the foot wasn't human?

McZoid, you've never heard of *Piltdown Shoe* then eh?
Posted by: RD   2008-06-20 12:48  

#1  How much deep thought went into the discovery that the foot wasn't human?
Posted by: McZoid   2008-06-20 07:30  

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