Third severed right foot discovered (BC coast)

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Postby compared2what? » Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:59 pm

Well....If it's Strait-of-Georgia in origin, there's this, per Wikipedia:

"Canadian Forces Maritime Experimental and Test Ranges (C.F.M.E.T.R.) is a maritime test facility located on the east side of Vancouver Island, at Nanoose Bay.

The ranges operated by C.F.M.E.T.R. are located over an area of the Strait of Georgia..... This facility is unique in the Canadian Forces as it staffed by active military personnel from Maritime Command (MARCOM) and DND civilian employees, as well as a small number of US Navy civilian employees. The facility is operationally controlled as a field unit of NDHQ. It currently sees active use from MARCOM and the United States Navy under a joint use agreement."

There's an airport there that is both military and civilian, as well. It's part of the regular route of flights to and from Mexico and Puerto Rico. (There's a little bit of a depleted uranium scandal, a la Vieques, connected to it.)

In short, it seems like a very natural black site for interrogation/rendition purposes, as well as an ideal North American point of entry for narcotics traffickers from South or Central America. And both of those have dismemberment potential.

Are shoe sizes the same in Canada and the U.S.? A U.S. men's 12 suggests a fairly tall man, insofar as these things can be inferred.

I know those NYT photo-pickers (as a class, I don't know who specifically picked that photo). I'm sure they were just looking for something appropriately morbid in this case, and also trying to sneak something impermissibly "dark" past management.

Or I would be, if it weren't for my awe-struck regard for Annie Aronberg as the apostle of truth that she is. As it is, I guess I'm not sure. Just floating the possibility.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:14 pm

and that naturally leads to this connection... seals
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you know what they say about big shoes.....

Postby annie aronburg » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:02 pm

compared2what? wrote:There's an airport there that is both military and civilian, as well. It's part of the regular route of flights to and from Mexico and Puerto Rico. (There's a little bit of a depleted uranium scandal, a la Vieques, connected to it.)


auf der wiki:
Military use
CFB Comox is the primary air defence installation on Canada's Pacific coast and serves as the home base for maritime patrol/anti-submarine aircraft and fixed-wing and rotary-wing search and rescue (SAR) aircraft.

Its primary lodger unit, 19 Wing, has two operational squadrons:

407 Maritime Patrol Squadron flying the Lockheed CP-140 Aurora
442 Transport and Rescue Squadron flying the CC-115 Buffalo fixed-wing and CH-149 Cormorant rotary-wing aircraft
19 Wing also includes the 19 Air Maintenance Squadron, and a number of other organizations.

CFB Comox is the location of the Canadian Forces School of Search and Rescue, where all para-rescue specialists in the Canadian Forces, known as SAR Technicians or "SAR Techs", undergo training.

CFB Comox serves as a forward operating base for temporary deployments of the CF-18 Hornet fighter-interceptor.

Every April, the Snowbirds practice at 19 Wing Comox.

CFB Comox is used by the Royal Canadian Air Cadets for glider and powered flight training training on Schweitzer 33's and Cessna 172's respectively in the summer months. An annex of CFB Comox, Annex A "Goose Spit", is used by the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets for CSTC HMCS Quadra where 1,000 sea cadets undergo training in the basic trades of Gunnery, Boatswain, Music and Sail. Also it trains cadets in three specialty trades Marine Engineering, Shipwright, and Silver Sail. It is also host to the local CFSA (Canadian Forces Sail Assosiation).

Civilian use
CFB Comox's airfield also serves as a civilian airport for commercial flights destined to Vancouver, Calgary, Campbell River, Edmonton and Mexico (Cancun and Puerta Vallarta). The base hosts a biennial airshow to celebrate Canadian Forces Day. The base is also home to the Comox Air Force Museum which features several aircraft and other historical exhibits. The base is a primary employer in the Comox Valley.


In short, it seems like a very natural black site for interrogation/rendition purposes, as well as an ideal North American point of entry for narcotics traffickers from South or Central America. And both of those have dismemberment potential.


Not to mention the significant H.A. population in the Nanaimo area, heck, the whole province is infested with them, and the rainblow of asian gangs.(typo but I'm keeping it)

It's a busy area. Many nefarious interests.

Are shoe sizes the same in Canada and the U.S.? A U.S. men's 12 suggests a fairly tall man, insofar as these things can be inferred.


We have american shoe sizes.

I wish there was more information about the condition of the foot.

I know those NYT photo-pickers (as a class, I don't know who specifically picked that photo). I'm sure they were just looking for something appropriately morbid in this case, and also trying to sneak something impermissibly "dark" past management.


I used to date an art editor who would insert secret clues and love notes to me on the cover of the local weekly. In once instance, when the cover was folded a certain way a garden scape was transformed into a valentine with our initials on it. He went to work for a publishing house where he'd do things like insert my birthdate into archival photos of old timey criminals.

He's the kind of person who'd try to slip a dead seal past his boss and be a perfect conduit for a message from the collective unconscious, or the former owners of those feet.

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Re: you know what they say about seals...

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:21 am

annie aronburg wrote:He's the kind of person who'd try to slip a dead seal past his boss...


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Postby Avalon » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:31 am

If the art directors are still trying to pick images for the resolution of the printed paper edition, rather than the online one, I'd think the seal probably wouldn't be identifiable in the dead tree edition.

I agree on the silence about how it was removed being a concern.
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Postby OP ED » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:15 am

Regarding the silence as to the, er, um method of removing said feet:

Should it possible that [like on TeeVee] the police are probably fully aware of the "method" but are witholding this information as it is likely the ONLY thing they know for certain that only "they" and "the remover" know?

Witholding it on purpose, but not for sinister reasons?
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Postby brainpanhandler » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:46 am

OP ED wrote:Regarding the silence as to the, er, um method of removing said feet:

Should it possible that [like on TeeVee] the police are probably fully aware of the "method" but are witholding this information as it is likely the ONLY thing they know for certain that only "they" and "the remover" know?

Witholding it on purpose, but not for sinister reasons?


Very possible, even probable. This is always a plausible reason for witholding info. But this is RI.

Sometimes this sort of official stonewalling becomes so absurd that it becomes obvious something is being hidden. This isn't too far from that. The canadian authorities, at least according to the press releases and interviews I have seen, are still treating the appearance of these severed feet as separate and unrelated cases (or so they say). If a fourth right foot washes ashore will they still say the same thing? Apparently the area is pretty sparsely populated and yet still three of these feet have been discovered. I wonder if there are people, in official capacities and not, searching for others
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Postby compared2what? » Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:06 pm

Maybe it is the work of six-legged octopi?

Another, more serious possibility that occurred to me is that they could be doing creepy medical experiments at that creepy naval base.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:52 pm

Three times now severed right feet have been found inside running shoes

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This beach on Gabriola Island, in the Strait of Georgia, is one of three British Columbia spots where severed right feet have washed ashore in recent months.




YouNewsTV™Story Published: Mar 6, 2008 at 10:50 PM PST

Story Updated: Mar 6, 2008 at 10:50 PM PST
By DAN BURRITT, Associated Press Writer
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Three times in less than a year, three right feet inside running shoes have been found near separate islands in the Strait of Georgia.
Police don't know if there are any links between them. Speculation in the region is rife, including that the feet were from slaying victims or they were the remains from drownings. Police haven't reached any conclusions.

"It is very unusual," Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Annie Linteau said Tuesday.

Linteau said two of the feet were size 12, but the size of the third was not released.

The first right foot was found by beachcombers on Jedidiah Island in August.

A few days later, a foot was found inside a man's Reebok sneaker on Gabriola Island. The third was found on the east side of Valdez Island on Feb 8. Only the shoe type for the second foot was announced.

"We're looking into all our missing person files," Linteau said. "We're certainly inviting anyone who may have information about these right feet to give us a call."

She said the coroner's office was doing DNA testing. British Columbia's corner's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a former professor of oceanography at the University of Washington who studies floating objects, said the feet could have drifted as far as 1,000 miles.

He speculated the feet floated away in the buoyant shoes after breaking from decomposing bodies, possibly of people who drowned in boating accidents. Others said they could be from four men whose bodies weren't recovered after their small plane crashed in the area about a year ago.

Ebbesmeyer said it might not be a coincidence the feet were found in the same general area.

"Left foot wear and right foot wear often tend to wash up at different times at different places because they float differently," he said. "There are beaches that collect mostly rights and other beaches that collect mostly lefts. The winds of the currents sort out left and right foot wear."

Sheila Malcolmson, a Gabriola Island government official, said the feet are the talk of the islands.

"We are all getting e-mails and messages from friends far away, saying, 'What's going on up there?"' Malcolmson said. "We're all walking around carefully."

Associated Press writer Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.

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Map shows the most recent location where a missing foot was found, off the coast of Vancouver Island.

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World media enthralled by feet mystery

Canwest News Service
Published: Saturday, March 08, 2008

The story of how three severed feet -- all in sneakers, right feet only -- washed up on this Gulf Islands was bound to travel.

Since a boater spotted the third foot on tiny Valdez Island on Feb. 8, reports on the mysterious appendages have appeared everywhere from the Turkish Daily News in Istanbul to Australia's Melbourne Herald Sun.

Not even the BBC could resist the story's allure.

But while most papers relied on wire service reports for their feet coverage, the New York Times went one step further.

Recently, the Times sent Washington state correspondent William Yardley to Gabriola to investigate the story.

In a piece published this week, Yardley reported on locals and visitors who were by turns bemused, skeptical and a little frightened by the wave of orphan feet.

"It was such a hell of a big foot," Michele Geris, 51, told Yardley. Geris found the second of the three feet in August, nestled near a tree trunk on Gabriola Island.

"My theory is that it washed onto the beach and then an animal picked it up."

Others read more sinister motives into the mystery.

"The left feet are probably encased in concrete at the bottom of the strait," Frank Bond said. "And if it is a gang thing, I bet they're going to start taking those sneakers off before they do it again."

But while the world has now tuned in, RCMP investigators are no closer to solving the case. Const. Annie Linteau told Yardley there are still no strong leads.




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Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:44 pm

"There are beaches that collect mostly rights and other beaches that collect mostly lefts."

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Re: Life's a...

Postby Jeff » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:29 am

Not saying this is related, but it deserves noting:


Body found in water off West Vancouver

The Canadian Press

March 8, 2008 at 5:54 PM EDT

WEST VANCOUVER — A body have been discovered in the waters off West Vancouver.

A sports fisherman came across the remains and called the Coast Guard.

Police say the body has been identified as that of a female.

The cause of death is not known and officials say the body was quite decomposed.

Investigators are waiting for the results of an autopsy.


Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:"There are beaches that collect mostly rights and other beaches that collect mostly lefts."


Good one.
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Postby lunarose » Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:33 am

oh! the humanity! :D

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The first right foot was found by beachcombers on Jedidiah Island in August.'

jeez.....so much for a relaxing pastime..........
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Re: Third severed right foot discovered (BC coast)

Postby elfismiles » Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:21 am

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