# Canada May Be Metric, But We've Got Five Spare Feet... Call CSI! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226 "2008-06-17T17:30:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/1 "2008-06-17T17:30:49Z")
Apparently, for what reason nobody has yet figured out, severed human feet are washing up on Westham Island in British Columbia: > **[Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast - CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/17/canada.feet/index.html)** > > A severed human foot was found washed up on an island on the western coast of Canada this week, the fifth detached foot found in the area in the past 11 months, according to local police and media reports. I think the authorities need to really step up their efforts. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/2 "2008-06-17T18:31:37Z")
Gee, all those severed feet and they don’t know much. Someone should lend a helping hand. The game is afoot!! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/3 "2008-06-17T18:32:52Z")
Those poor lost soles. What heel would do this? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/4 "2008-06-17T18:37:07Z")
[QUOTE=Flander] Gee, all those severed feet and they don’t know much. Someone should lend a helping hand. [/QUOTE] The lack of evidence in this case is proving to be an im **ped** iment. A femur corny puns, please … ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/5 "2008-06-17T18:38:24Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Those poor lost soles. What heel would do this? [/QUOTE] Their arch-rival, of course! This is a perfect opportunity for some flatfoot detective to get his foot in the door. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/6 "2008-06-17T19:03:02Z")
You people are absolutely callous. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/7 "2008-06-17T19:08:07Z")
[This](http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080616/national/foot_found) article is the best! Apparently feet are just falling off! [quote=] The RCMP has said there’s no evidence the feet were severed or removed from the victims’ legs by force. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/8 "2008-06-17T19:13:09Z")
These capricious legs, [they’ve](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=469625) really been making tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/9 "2008-06-17T20:36:29Z")
You really have to watch out for the undertoe there. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/10 "2008-06-18T04:04:55Z")
[Wacky, freeky.](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357703,00.html) ---
**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:** [June 18, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/11 "2008-06-18T04:16:20Z")
You know, by plotting the landing points and backtracking the drift paths, they can find out all sorts of things about the ocean… What? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/12 "2008-06-18T07:54:10Z")
I’m still skeptical of the (not stated here) claim that time and tide sorts the feet onto different beaches for lefties and righties. That would take unbelievable consistency in all of the variables involved. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/13 "2008-06-18T07:56:11Z")
Also… > [@](#): > > Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer based in Seattle, Washington, said when a human body is submerged in the ocean, the main parts like arms, legs, hands, feet and the head are usually what come off the body. Well, duh. The parts that come off the torso are, well, any of the parts that are not the torso. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/14 "2008-06-18T12:53:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer based in Seattle, Washington, said when a human body is submerged in the ocean, the main parts like arms, legs, hands, feet and the head are usually what come off the body. Are there really any other parts that could come off. Well, OK, one maybe if it’s a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/15 "2008-06-18T13:10:21Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Those poor lost soles. What heel would do this? [/QUOTE] The toe-truck driver. They should shoe him away. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/16 "2008-06-18T13:30:46Z")
you’re a little [late](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=472123). ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/17 "2008-06-18T13:40:48Z")
They will all go to heaven. Feet have souls. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/18 "2008-06-18T13:43:20Z")
Time for the monthly foot washing ashore pun thread already? How time flies. 😉 Appropriately, we ended up with a pair of these threads, so I’ve merged them and moved the combined thread over here to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/19 "2008-06-18T13:47:21Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Appropriately, we ended up with a pair of these threads [/QUOTE] Actually, you’ve got two left ones there. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226/20 "2008-06-18T13:49:35Z")
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home. This little piggy went to BC, and this little piggy went sailing in the foam. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-may-be-metric-but-weve-got-five-spare-feet-call-csi/453226.md?page=2)