I guess we should touch on these feet while it’s still a hot topic. Watching television, reading the papers and the internet (and maybe listening to radio as well), I guess we can add “mysterious and unaccounted for body parts” to the list of things that wet the media’s appetite. I will admit, this is a weird one. All this being said, I should mention that the latest foot, the sixth, found near Campbell River has turned out to be (as of 4:00pm on Thursday at least) a hoax. Someone shoved a paw in a shoe with some seaweed and sacraficed a size 10 Adidas for the purpose of comedy - misdirected as the joke may be.
So what is going on with the feet? Your guess is as good as mine, but there is one theory being floated around (I’m sorry. I had to get in one pun) that seems to make a little sense. As we’ve all probably heard/read/seen, the feet were pretty much all “at an advanced stage of decomposition.” Now, as delicious as that sounds, it kinda starts to point us in a logical direction. If the feet were decomposed, the body would have been as well. Only the body, as sad as it is, is probably around the bottom of the ocean at this point. But the foot was encased in a shoe. A shoe full of light rubbers and foam, aka, a running shoe. Since the shoe was trying to float and the body was at a stage where it could be “separated,” the foot eventually detached and floated to the surface. This is possibly why the police refuse to say the feet are “severed” or have any signs of being “forcibly removed.”
This all being said, it’s still just a theory. It may take a while to figure out what’s happening. Until we know, I guess people will continue to throw around ideas that essentially suggest there is a real life version of the movie Hostel going on someplace on the Island or the coast.
A little trivia, I suppose? While the sixth foot turned out to be a badly placed joke, there are still 5 cases of mysterious feet to be solved. What island was the first foot found on?
