that flotsam severed foot not real:
Canadian police said on Friday they plan to launch an investigation into a macabre prank, after what was thought to be a severed human foot that washed up on the Pacific Coast turned out to be a hoax.
“Whether it was something that was done for a laugh or as a joke or for attention, it’s not something that will be tolerated,” Royal Canadian Mounted Police Const. Annie Linteau told Reuters.
I bet it was Mark Steyn.
Comment by mojo on 6/24 @ 2:19 pm #
They can’t find the rest of the bodies the REAL feet came from, but they’re gonna track down the joker who made the fake?
Lemme know how that works out for ya, ok boys?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 2:24 pm #
The RCMP called a toe truck.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/24 @ 2:25 pm #
Where’s happyfeet?
Comment by timmy d on 6/24 @ 2:29 pm #
I don’t think we’ve heard the last of this. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 6/24 @ 2:33 pm #
They would be better off not making a big deal of it, just quietly looking for the ‘jokers’ when something comes up. Otherwise they encourage more maturity-arrested individuals to do the same thing. Putting out a challenge has that effect.
Comment by BJTex on 6/24 @ 2:43 pm #
Well, Mikey, it’s not nice to play footsie with the RCMP.
I condemn myself and everybody else.
Comment by HokiePundit on 6/24 @ 2:51 pm #
I think that if the shoe were on the other foot, you’d be completely in step with the arch tone of the RCMP.
Comment by lee on 6/24 @ 3:25 pm #
The find came just days after an actual human foot was found floating south of Vancouver on Monday. That incident marked the fifth sneaker-clad foot to be found in the region since last August.
Ummm, they got feet washing up on shore left and right, and the RCMP are upset about the hoaxter!
I would say he is just a footnote for the real story…
Comment by lee on 6/24 @ 3:27 pm #
Oops, rouge italics tag.
Comment by happyfeet on 6/24 @ 3:39 pm #
Fucking Canada. I got ten bucks says there’ll be a mandatory toe-printing database created before the year is out.
Comment by kelly on 6/24 @ 3:47 pm #
The agony of da-feet.
Comment by McGehee on 6/24 @ 3:48 pm #
Severed feet and fake feet, big whoop.
Where the hell do my socks go when they’re in the wash? That’s what I want to know.
Comment by harrison on 6/24 @ 3:58 pm #
RCMP will never find them.
They operate on a shoe-string budget, doncha know.
Comment by The Apologist on 6/24 @ 4:01 pm #
Where the hell do my socks go when they’re in the wash? That’s what I want to know.
Abso-fucking-lutely. If they figured that one out I’d stand and applaud them every time their name was mentioned. That has got to be one of the most persistent mysteries in modern life. And it is annoying as hell. A single foot washing up on shore every few weeks is pretty weird, but I could live with it so long as I never woke up missing one of mine. But that sock thing drives me up the fucking wall.
Comment by Roboc on 6/24 @ 4:02 pm #
Sounds like a serial killer is trying to get a foothold in British Columbia!
Comment by Wilson McEllerson on 6/24 @ 4:07 pm #
Where the hell do my socks go when they’re in the wash?
Brazil.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 6/24 @ 4:32 pm #
#6 BJ – the RCMP owe me. A couple of weeks ago at USCG station Belle Isle* the RCMP boat became untied and I got it fastened to its moorings again.
They owe me.
*Belle Isle Station is on the Detroit River – we work with the Canadians a lot on joint operations like marine events, and Belle Isle is the briefing/gathering/control for PATCOM. Last night for the fireworks we had RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police, Windsor Police, LaSalle Police, Canadian Coast Guard, Candian Border Patrol, US Border Patrol, Wayne County Sheriff, Detroit Police, Michigan State Police, US Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Gurad Auxiliary, US Coast Guard Auxiliary, Michigan DNR, and so on for briefing and dinner…mmmmm, food.
All friendly and working together, eh?
Comment by Jim in KC on 6/24 @ 4:39 pm #
Canucks are putting them on fake feet and tossing them in the ocean, apparently.
Comment by Diana on 6/24 @ 6:27 pm #
Not one to tiptoe around the issues, eh?
We have a few feet to spare and we’re not soleless.
Comment by McGehee on 6/25 @ 6:30 am #
I say we let the Mounties do the legwork on this one.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 6/25 @ 6:50 am #
Yeah, the fake foot pisses ‘em off, but they’re utterly relaxed about the real ones. Trying to investigate real criminals is work; and pranksters aren’t likely to shoot at you, I guess.
Comment by bergerbilder on 6/25 @ 6:56 am #
I thought Canada was on the metric system. If this was a Canadian prankster, they’d be meters washing up on shore.