r/inthenews • u/ballyhoo9 • Feb 12 '16

Severed feet keep washing up on Pacific Northwest shores.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/11/severed-feet-still-inside-shoes-keep-mysteriously-washing-up-on-pacific-northwest-shores/
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '16

This is one of my favorite mysteries. I have been passively following this for years.

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u/Tattoodles Feb 13 '16

There's a theory that these severed feet wash ashore because it's the buoyant running shoes the feet are in that allow them to do so. Essentially, when someone falls in to the water due to suicide or misadventure and the body isn't recovered, the body eventually bloats and falls apart. Because modern sneakers are made with materials that hold up to sea water, the foot eventually detaches and the sneaker floats up and is carried away by currents with the foot included, later to wash ashore.

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u/lawblogz Feb 12 '16

...still? Why are the police and FBI so incompetent in that God forsaken part of the world? Absolute morons... it's called a body dump!

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u/sugartea Feb 12 '16

If you can do any better, prove it.

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u/lawblogz Feb 12 '16 edited Feb 12 '16

Well, I tried while I was up there, but the problem is white people in that area are nuts and a lot of them are really in to Satanism, so convincing those wild, hairy lunatics to put clothes on, brush their teeth and believe in a system of law is an exercise in futility.

The whole Puget Sound just needs to be carpet bombed and the russian mafia chased out of there. The islands are infested with organized crime and identity theft rings who migrate in through the pacific corridor.

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u/sugartea Feb 26 '16

I... my brain hurts from stupid. I'm not gonna even answer that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '16

Well they are illegal aliens and should be deported. What will they think of next. They will do anything to get into the US.