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Yup. You read the headline right. Six human feet have washed up on shore near Vancouver island. What. The. Fuck.
A severed foot has been discovered on a remote Strait of Juan de Fuca beach about 50 kilometres west of Port Angeles.
A woman was out walking along the shore when she saw the shoe with a foot inside, reports Global BC.
from the Times Colonist
I've been waiting, you're the only one who can handle it with your wit, uncommon sense, and unforgiving outlook; but you haven't written it yet.
4th August 2008 at 1:06 pm | permalink |Where's the commentary on all the california-isms of late?
As of 2010, no plastic bags in stores; as of 2010, no transfat in prepped food, the fight to make all eggs 'cage-free' (and the extra $1 that will cost everyone); and (my favorite) the ban on bad restaurants in south L.A. because "they're not eating very well". One could build a $50/plate fine dining place, but not another McD's or BK.
And you just just know that this arrogant forced conformantism is going to sweep the country…
So, where's the article?
@floop: Well, lessee … I have no problem with the plastic bag thing, except it means I'll have to actually start buying garbage bags again. Trans-fat? Hell, I'd be perfectly happy if they wanted to ban high-fructose corn syrup while they're at it …
Now, as for no new fast food places in South LA … there are very compelling arguments to be made about lack of affordable transportation from low-income neighborhoods to the nearest decent grocery store, and the attendant effects on health and nutrition of the local residents. And every school teacher will tell you the same thing: Kids who don't eat reasonably balanced diets and regular meals, don't perform as well in school. Kids who fail in school more often than not fail economically as adults. And then they end up stuck in the same lousy ghetto, surrounded by liquor stores, convenience stores, and fast food restaurants, raising their kids on the same shit diet, with the same shit results …
… I don't know that banning fast-food outlets from the neighborhood is going to do a damn bit of good, but it'd be nice to see something happen to start counteracting the situation as it stands now.
4th August 2008 at 1:21 pm | permalink |Are you sure this isn't a really old story??
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=39815&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=0
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/445556
- I have a good friend on the island who told me about this sometime ago.
4th August 2008 at 3:44 pm | permalink |@Ian: This is only the *latest* foot to wash ashore … there have been a total of 6.
4th August 2008 at 4:53 pm | permalink |Is that 6 including the one that turned out to be a hoax, where someone stuffed an animal foot in a shoe?
4th August 2008 at 6:00 pm | permalink |This Nikes viral marketing stuff is getting good. I tell ya what…
4th August 2008 at 7:57 pm | permalink |Hahaha, that's pretty grody. I have this theory, though. I think it's the leftover remains of the mer-people's bodies that they just conviently managed to leave behind in the Pacific Ocean. Orrrrrr, there is a secret tribal group who have to cut off their right foot to be initiated, and it is located on Vancouver Island. Of course when I tell people this, they think I need help, because I shouldn't joke about it. Besides, I'm not joking about it. I have worse theories about other gruesome events that happen in our world. Haha. But is it as really bad as a hoax? >_>
4th August 2008 at 9:07 pm | permalink |There must be a nest nearby …
4th August 2008 at 11:06 pm | permalink |"I think it's the leftover remains of the mer-people's bodies"
By dog that's it! They don't merge two legs into one, they cut one leg off and morph the remaining one. Then they dump the leg, which gets eaten by salmon and sharks and sasquatches and/or whatever the fuck else is up there. But, see, they *leave the foot* because, I dunno, they have discerning palates, and don't want any of that festy running shoe flavour in with that prime, grade A human drumstick.
Or, yeah, a Nike exec is going on a killing spree.
5th August 2008 at 5:32 am | permalink |They float thousands of miles in water and come out in good shape.. and even preserve the feet inside them!
That's damn good advertising.
5th August 2008 at 7:05 am | permalink |"So comfy, you'll never want to take them off"
5th August 2008 at 7:28 am | permalink |Your left, your left, your left, ——, left.
5th August 2008 at 12:33 pm | permalink |@grimbles: "Is that 6 including the one that turned out to be a hoax …?"
It might include it … I hadn't heard anything about it until this piece, so I didn't even know about the hoax.
@DavidGX: "This Nikes viral marketing stuff is getting good. I tell ya what…"
eeeeeewwwwwwww! haha
@Aimee: I'll go with the tribal group theory. :-)
@fabrulana: "There must be a nest nearby …"
I think I missed most of your point, but it gives me the creeps anyhow. heheh
@grimbles: "… a Nike exec is going on a killing spree."
Oooh, another good one!
@DavidGX & grimbles: Please, you two, don't go into advertising, mmkay? *groan*
5th August 2008 at 2:34 pm | permalink |Why not? Advertising has nowhere near enough morbidity. Come on, geico wants to diversify into life insurance, what better add campaign than the gecko getting flattened by a truck: "Sometimes, auto insurance is enough. Sometimes it's not."
5th August 2008 at 7:31 pm | permalink |@grimbles: OK, I'm with you on the Geico thing … just not so much the severed foot thing. hehehe
5th August 2008 at 11:17 pm | permalink |Why not? I'm working on advertising right now for hats for republicans….
o_O
6th August 2008 at 12:06 am | permalink |Yea, apparently, lots of people go missing at sea every year. More than you imagine. Bodies rot in the water, bits come off, bits sink, bits get eaten.
Except when the feet break off and they are protected of a nice man-made training shoe - which floats.
Got to float somewhere.
Just why Canada?
6th August 2008 at 6:47 pm | permalink |Why Canada ? Free medical of course…
6th August 2008 at 10:49 pm | permalink |Hats for republicans! LMFAO..!
7th August 2008 at 2:14 am | permalink |@DavidGX: Oh my. You've sold out to The Man!
@charlie: I wonder if you looked up Pacific Ocean shipwrecks or 'man overboard' incidents, if their locations would match up nicely with the Gulf Stream, or whatever major current it is at work in the Pacific?
@fabrulana: LOL! Yeah, maybe they want prosthetic bodies!
@bill: I'm wondering about that myself. ;-)
7th August 2008 at 7:14 pm | permalink |