# 14th Human Foot washes ashore **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134 "2018-05-14T14:34:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/21 "2018-05-14T18:28:53Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > They definately need to get all boots on the ground on this one. Are they going to form some sort of sole train? ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/22 "2018-05-14T18:36:46Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > You lousy punsters should all get the boot. While perhaps we should kick the habit, you don’t have a leg to stand on. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/23 "2018-05-14T18:38:18Z")
> [@](#): > > “It really didn’t come up until we had running shoes that floated so well,” coroner Barb McLintock told the Canadian Press in 2016. “Before, they just stayed down there at the bottom of the ocean.” So, the seabed off British Columbia is littered with human feet still encased in oxfords and black pumps? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/24 "2018-05-14T20:00:02Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > So, the seabed off British Columbia is littered with human feet still encased in oxfords and black pumps? IOW, what you’re saying is wearing Florsheims or Louboutin‎s, but not Nikes, is causing the sea level to rise one foot at a time. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/25 "2018-05-14T20:02:57Z")
Wow. All these tasteless puns making light of human misery. Lame! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/26 "2018-05-14T20:20:18Z")
How dirty is that Canadian shore that it takes 14 feet to wash it? Isn’t foot washing a religious thing? Maybe this is a sole cleansing attempt. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/27 "2018-05-14T20:41:15Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Wow. All these tasteless puns making light of human misery. > > Lame! I know, right! Or was it left? Give’m an inch and they’ll take a foot. Of course, you shouldn’t judge people until you’ve walked a a mile in their shoe. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/28 "2018-05-14T21:28:00Z")
It all starts with just one step… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/29 "2018-05-14T21:54:03Z")
They all fell off a yacht, that was 426.72 cm long. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/30 "2018-05-14T22:53:10Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > They all fell off a yacht, that was 426.72 cm long. That’s just a boat; to be a yacht it has to be at least a foot longer. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/31 "2018-05-14T23:29:17Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Is this the same place where all the right feet washed up on one beach, and all the left feet on another? Or did I just imagine that detail? I thought it was only left feet. Your question didn’t get answered, so I guess I need to check. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/32 "2018-05-14T23:38:31Z")
Well, that was fast. [Wikipedia has a table.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries) It’s only 14 if you restrict yourself to the Canadian side of the bay. There were also 5 in the US. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/33 "2018-05-15T00:22:06Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I thought it was only left feet. Your question didn’t get answered, so I guess I need to check. And they all belonged to women named Ilene. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/34 "2018-05-15T01:15:23Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > And they all belonged to women named Ilene. Oh come on. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/35 "2018-05-15T01:22:01Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > And they all belonged to women named Ilene. Neil lost both if his. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/36 "2018-05-15T03:41:35Z")
If they were all in running shoes, clearly they are all athlete’s feet. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/37 "2018-05-15T11:22:45Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > Wow. All these tasteless puns making light of human misery. > > Lame! Oh skip it! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/38 "2018-05-15T11:39:06Z")
There is along list of people that the next one could belong to -[Where is Mona? She’s long gone. Where is Mary?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfhvxTZ0wo) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/39 "2018-05-15T13:42:43Z")
You people disgust me. I’m leaving here to go eat at McD’s under the golden arches. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134/40 "2018-05-15T13:51:53Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > You people disgust me. I’m leaving here to go eat at McD’s under the golden arches. Oh, loosen up and don’t be so strait-laced. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-human-foot-washes-ashore/814134.md?page=3)