Five Feet On Beech, Sixth A Hoax. Anyone Want to Buy Beach Front Property on The British Columbia Coast? ~by Surfer Dude

Why can't a nose be 12 inches long? Because then it would be a foot! What was believed to be the sixth human foot to wash up on the shores of British Columbia turned out to be a nose... I mean a "sketonized animal paw" placed in a sock and athletic shoe. Doesn't it make you want to take a romantic stroll on a Canadian beach? Better yet, what a way to add to the Candian real estate crisis with depressed property values.

The coroner office discovered the hoax while examining DNA and other forensic test results.
The coroners service, a forensic pathologist and an anthropologist all declared the sixth foot to be a hoax. "It is the position of BCCS that this type of hoax is reprehensible and very disrespectful to the families of missing persons," indicates a written statement.

Five other severed human feet that have been found along the Canadian coast in the past 11 months. Possible origins of the feet include foul play, missing fishermen, drowning victims or victims of a plane crash. The first four feet contained no tool marks and were therefore deemed not to have been severed. A left foot still in a shoe was found Monday on the shore of Westham Island, south of Vancouver. The first four feet were all right feet. The sixth, according to Sgt. Mike Tresoor of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was apparently found by a woman who said she found the shoe with a foot inside it. The foot appeared to have been deliberately severed with the bones " cut clean across."

An ankle joint can come apart easily if a body decomposes at sea. A buoyant athletic shoe can float several hundred miles. DNA testing and matching could take months. In the mean time people wonder if there is any relationship to scores of young men who have been reported missing over the years. Other, speculation questions some connection to five men who were in a plane crash three years ago in the waterway. Kirsten Stevens, whose husband David died in the crash was at the Campbell River site on Wednesday. Naturally, relatives like Kirsten are looking for closure and do not appreciate the recent hoax. On a personal note, as a surfer I would be disappointed if I had to start dodging dead animal parts littering the California coast. (It is tough enough just dodging tourists and land sharks!) Have a great weekend, surfs up!