Human Foot Found On San Francisco's Ocean Beach

[Auggie]

SAN FRANCISCO / AP -- Authorities say a human foot in a running shoe has washed ashore on San Francisco's Ocean Beach with no sign of the rest of the body.

The National Park Service said a member of its beach patrol confirmed the report Sunday from a beachgoer.

Mark Powning, chief investigator of the San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office, told The San Francisco Chronicle the foot still had tissue attached but appears to have been in the sea for a while.

The foot was inside a size 11 1/2 green-and-black-mesh Puma running shoe.

LINK: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/foot-san-francisco-beach_n_3937006.html

[tularetom]

1. Just checked, it isn't mine

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Okay, that's just too weird.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/foot-washes-ashore-northwes-coast-11th-time/story?id=14420250

[Auggie]

4. Weird is right. I love your link: "... it's keeping investigators on their toes."

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. This has happened before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries

[petronius]

5. I'd never heard the name Salish Sea before - learned something new...

Thanks for the link!

[kestrel91316]

6. I think seamen on giant Chinese freighters get caught in ropes, get yanked overboard, and lose

a foot in the process. Probably no one even reports them missing.

[Cleita]

9. Maybe they should DNA test them to try to trace the origins.

There have been so many over the years.

[SunSeeker]

7. Google "severed foot beach."

British Columbia had a similar mystery. 12 severed feet had washed ashore in Canada. They surmised they were from suicides; two feet were identified as belonging to a woman who jumped to her death from a bridge in 2004. And yes, they were all in athletic shoes. Apparently jumpers tend to wear sneakers.

I'm guessing this size 11.5 was from a big guy who jumped off one of SF's bridges.

[Cleita]

8. There were a bunch of those, a foot in a running shoe showing up in the British Columbia

and Washington state beaches for some years now. Now they are coming to California? Very weird.

[Jamaal510]

10. Dick Morris, this one's for you. eom