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    MinnesotaFats
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    Anyone from Vancouver? What's with the shoe killings?

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/human-foot-washes-on-canadian-beach-15th-overall-since-2007-police-say

    This is bizzare

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    Cant really know for sure if it was foul play or suicide

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    Body parts have been washing up on BC shores for decades. Police believe them some of them to be slayings related to the drug trade.

    I'm not buying the suicide theory. Usually when somebody commits suicide by jumping off a bridge they are discovered soon after. The news media loves to downplay violent crime here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OTL View Post
    Body parts have been washing up on BC shores for decades. Police believe them some of them to be slayings related to the drug trade.

    I'm not buying the suicide theory. Usually when somebody commits suicide by jumping off a bridge they are discovered soon after. The news media loves to downplay violent crime here.
    lol Zero percent chance it's suicide

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    LOL suicide

    What, cut off my foot then swallow the sleeping pills?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinnesotaFats View Post
    LOL suicide

    What, cut off my foot then swallow the sleeping pills?
    The BC [British Columbia] Coroners Service has been able to identify eight of the previous 12 feet, belonging to six individuals,” the agency said in a statement. “In none of the cases was any foul play involved.”
    For starters, there are simply a lot of corpses in these waters. Kathy Taylor, a forensic anthropologist at the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, which has jurisdiction along the Seattle-Tacoma coast of Puget Sound, explained that this is a consequence of having a densely populated area on the coast. The metro area along the shores of the Salish Sea is home to 7 million people.
    Suicides and drownings are somewhat regular events around any body of water, and as shoreline populations go up, the number of water mishaps also increases. Coastal metropolises like New York City regularly go through the grim ritual of fishing floating corpses out of the water in the spring as water temperatures rise.
    But why do body parts so often end up on the shores of the Salish Sea and not around other coastal regions, like the San Francisco Bay Area? Parker MacCready, an oceanography professor at the University of Washington, said the story is simple. “Things that float at the ocean surface move with the currents, but also are pushed a bit by the wind, and this can be significant in getting them to shore,” he wrote in an email. “The prevailing winds here [around the Salish Sea] are west to east, and so floating stuff in this part of the Pacific gets blown to the coast effectively.”



    And why feet?
    It turns out that in water, human bodies naturally disarticulate, or come apart at the joints, so hands and feet often disconnect from corpses after soaking in the ocean for a while.
    “Feet easily disarticulate and when they are attached to a flotation device such as a running shoe, they are easily washed ashore,” wrote Gail Anderson, co-director of the Center for Forensic Research at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, in an email. “Notice there are no feet washing ashore in stiletto heels or flip-flops. Also, today’s running shoes are much more buoyant than in the past.”
    Tennis shoes also keep decaying feet in a neat package rather than letting toes and heels disperse, and footwear protects feet from hungry sea creatures, which end up gnawing on other exposed areas like ankles instead.

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    Weird

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    Quote Originally Posted by OTL View Post
    Body parts have been washing up on BC shores for decades. Police believe them some of them to be slayings related to the drug trade.

    I'm not buying the suicide theory. Usually when somebody commits suicide by jumping off a bridge they are discovered soon after. The news media loves to downplay violent crime here.
    Their was an Unsolved Mysteries segment years ago,about some guy in Rhode Island that had his foot wash up on shore,they were never able to locate the body.

    Spooky shit man.

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    Some strange shit.

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