Pat Dollard

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Actually sailed in the Strait of Georgia my last week in the Coast Guard. The women on Vancouver Island, namely the town of Victoria, were extremely friendly. Just couldn’t buy booze on Sunday (early 80′s) and so we tried to load up on Saturday night.

Don’t remember anybody loosing any right feet, however.

Weird going on here, I think.

This from the Times Colonist:

Three severed right feet have washed ashore on the Gulf Islands in the past six months, in what police say is one of the most bizarre cases in recent memory.

The latest foot, still in its sneaker, was found last Friday on Valdes Island, a small community near Nanaimo that does not have regular ferry service and is accessible only by private boat or float plane.

RCMP say they’re not sure whether foul play is involved and are trying to match any missing-person cases to the severed foot.

Two other right feet, both in size 12 men’s sneakers, washed ashore on Gabriola and Jedediah islands last August. RCMP collected DNA from the grisly remains but could not match them to anyone in police databases. The three islands are within 60 kilometres of each other.

“It is unusual,” said RCMP spokeswoman Const. Annie Linteau. “We are in the preliminary stages of this particular investigation, and of course we will not enter into speculation.”

The Vancouver Island Major Crime Unit has sent detectives to investigate the cases, she said.

Meanwhile, the latest foot has been turned over to the B.C. Coroners Service for forensic testing.

“We’ll be using pathology examinations and anthropology examinations to garner as much information as we possibly can about the remains,” said Jeff Dolen, B.C.’s assistant deputy chief coroner.

Although it is somewhat common to find individual body parts, Dolen said this would be “the first instance of three such similar remains being discovered” in such proximity.

A body in the ocean will first sink and then, depending on the depth, float back to the surface as it becomes bloated with gas.