Orca Bay Images wrote:
Might be God doing a test run for the Rapture. Some soles get left behind.

Eros Fine Art Photo wrote:
Investigators say everyone is stumped.

I've read that forensics is dragging their feet!

udor wrote:



I've read that forensics is dragging their feet!

Investigators need to put their foot down.

udor wrote:


I've read that forensics is dragging their feet!

FIFTYONE PHOTOGRAPHY wrote:
Investigators need to put their foot down.

They need to be brought to heel and made to toe the line.

Garry k wrote:
One theory I have heard is that some of them are from suicide victims ( ie bridge jumpers ) whose bodys have decomposed - and if they are wearing certain types of running shoes - the foot becomes detached and bouyant

Suicide victims are likely to float unless they've attached sufficient ballast to ensure sinking. This is certainly possible. Decomposition alone would take a LONG time, as I postulate below there could be other forces at play to accelerate the feet detaching from the cadaver. So, they could be suicide victims. I suspect other contributing factors.

My theory is this - Vancouver is a MAJOR west coast port city. That means drugs and drugs mean gangsters.
This is true of most if not all major ports around the world.

You can't spend a $100 bill in Whatcom county without somebody testing it with a pen, counterfeit Benjamins traced back to Russian gangs in Canada are a problem up here. So are drugs smuggled across the border.

At some point, somebody tries to hustle the hustlers and are privleged to meet Ivan and Vlad.
If you tied a rock or piece of metal to somebody and tossed them in the ocean the crabs, ling cod and other scavengers down at the bottom would feast.
Kind of hard to eat sneakers!!!!! Plus, they float. So maybe they are slowly but surely chewed free by hungry critters?
Ugh!

Shadow Dancer wrote:

Suicide victims are likely to float unless they've attached sufficient ballast to ensure sinking. This is certainly possible. Decomposition alone would take a LONG time, as I postulate below there could be other forces at play to accelerate the feet detaching from the cadaver. So, they could be suicide victims. I suspect other contributing factors.

My theory is this - Vancouver is a MAJOR west coast port city. That means drugs and drugs mean gangsters.
This is true of most if not all major ports around the world.

You can't spend a $100 bill in Whatcom county without somebody testing it with a pen, counterfeit Benjamins traced back to Russian gangs in Canada are a problem up here. So are drugs smuggled across the border.

At some point, somebody tries to hustle the hustlers and are privleged to meet Ivan and Vlad.
If you tied a rock or piece of metal to somebody and tossed them in the ocean the crabs, ling cod and other scavengers down at the bottom would feast.
Kind of hard to eat sneakers!!!!! Plus, they float. So maybe they are slowly but surely chewed free by hungry critters?
Ugh!

That could be part of it as well ..

We supposidly have various criminal gangs operating in and around our city .. HAs . Mafia . Chinese Triads etc

The Ocean provides one very large respostory for placing ones dead enenemies

Another ( perhaps more disturbing theory ) is that this is the grim work of a serial killer such as Robert Pickton ( who abducted . and murdered marginalized women in our city and then allegedly fed them to the hogs on his farm )

Garry k wrote:

That could be part of it as well ..

We supposidly have various criminal gangs operating in and around our city .. HAs . Mafia . Chinese Triads etc

The Ocean provides one very large respostory for placing ones dead enenemies

Another ( perhaps more disturbing theory ) is that this is the grim work of a serial killer such as Robert Pickton ( who abducted . and murdered marginalized women in our city and then allegedly fed them to the hogs on his farm )

Yes, I remember that story. There are lots of hungry beasts in the waters.
And, anywhere there are people, there will be criminals. Some have their own underground existence, some of them run for office.

DaveZ Studio wrote:
Authorities claim this is a result of suicides and accidents.  The shoes prevent the feet from the decay and animals that destroy the rest of the body. 

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/ … -vancouver

No law enforcement agency in Canada is going to leak any information in criminal cases until arrests are made. SOP here in the USA as well. Tipping off the perpetrators is very poor strategy.

So, what the authorities say and what they know may well be two different things.

Alexandra Vincent wrote:
This is such a big news story, I'm sure the cops are really toeing the line in this investigation.

*dies* LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

kickfight wrote:
ANKLES AWEIGH

Omg. I'm going to die.

Alexandra Vincent wrote:
Omg. I'm going to die.

I wish I'd thought of it myself, but I callously stole it from renowned satire website The Bunion.

kickfight wrote:

I wish I'd thought of it myself, but I callously stole it from renowned satire website The Bunion.

I just died.

No, really.

For serious.

Also, I have on black Nike high-tops. Be watching for my remains up there.

Alexandra Vincent wrote:
If they don't solve this fast, it'll make the person overseeing the case look like a real heel.

Just a soleless brute.

The arch nemesis of competent and efficient policing.

The detective who has been assigned to this case has stated that rather than suffer the agony of de feet, heel toe a net around the sound in an attempt to gather more appendages for evidence.

Alexandra Vincent wrote:
I just died.

No, really.

For serious.

Oh, NO! What have I done???? This is just like the prophetic warning from that ancient beloved nursery rhyme!!!! 

This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none,
And this little piggy cried MURDER

kickfight wrote:
You put your right foot in
You take your right foot out
You put your right foot in
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about

You put your... left... foot... ah crap.

Feets don't fail me now!!!!

DaveZ Studio wrote:
Authorities claim this is a result of suicides and accidents.  The shoes prevent the feet from the decay and animals that destroy the rest of the body.

But why only in British Columbia?
Do floating feet in shoes avoid to be washed ashore in Washington, Oregon, California or Alaska? And why not in New Foundland, too? Or in Maine?

I am living right between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea for decades now (40 kilometers to each shore).
I did news journalism in this region for decades.
Of course sometimes dead corpses are washed ashore.
Of course sometimes dead corpses which had been heavily damaged by ships' propellers are washed ashore.
For now I cannot recall parts of dead corpses been washed ashore here but probably this may happen from time to time.
But such an amount of human feet in shoes?

This is weird...

TomFRohwer wrote:

But why only in British Columbia?
Do floating feet in shoes avoid to be washed ashore in Washington, Oregon, California or Alaska? And why not in New Foundland, too? Or in Maine?

I am living right between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea for decades now (40 kilometers to each shore).
I did news journalism in this region for decades.
Of course sometimes dead corpses are washed ashore.
Of course sometimes dead corpses which had been heavily damaged by ships' propellers are washed ashore.
For now I cannot recall parts of dead corpses been washed ashore here but probably this may happen from time to time.
But such an amount of human feet in shoes?

This is weird...

It is both countries but this will explain a lot.  Note the map.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/ … -vancouver

Hunter  GWPB wrote:

It is both countries but this will explain a lot.  Note the map.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/ … -vancouver

Thanks for your informative post!

TomFRohwer wrote:
For now I cannot recall parts of dead corpses been washed ashore here but probably this may happen from time to time.
But such an amount of human feet in shoes?

This is weird...

Yeah, it's a real trip and a mystery afoot!

ZMPHOT   wrote:
This item makes me think of the idiom   " Being footloose & fancy free"  +  & I don't believe Great White sharks like Nikeys

We don't have  Great Whites in our Waters

We have Orcas

and they are generally not interested in people