Ok, This is Getting Weird…

Another human foot has washed up on British Columbia’s south coast. This brings the total to seven, since August 2007.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed that human remains were inside a New Balance running shoe spotted Tuesday afternoon.

One right-foot New Balance running shoe — the only one belonging to a woman — has been found since the first foot was located on Aug. 20, 2007. That shoe turned up May 22 on Kirkland Island, not far from the site of Tuesday’s discovery.

All the other feet were found at several sites on or near Georgia Strait, including remains in a shoe found in August in Pysht, Wash., about 30 miles west of Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula.

Police have determined that two of the shoes — found Feb. 8 on Valdez Island and June 16 off Richmond — are a match.

DNA testing linked one foot to a depressed man who disappeared in 2007 but the other remains have not been identified.

Authorities say it appears that all of the feet separated naturally from bodies as they decomposed in the water.

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That’s One Big Shark!

A 30-foot-long basking shark was hauled to shore by brothers Justin and Joseph MacDonald Thursday night in Alma, Canada. The shark, estimated to weigh two tonnes, had gotten tangled up in the anchors and ropes of some lobster traps. It took the crews of two boats (about 10 men) to untangle the lines and tow the shark ashore.

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Mutating Fish in Canada… Don’t Drink the Water

Just days before a conference on water quality began in Alberta, Canada last week, residents say a strange fish with two mouths was found at the nearby lake.

Some kids had caught the deformed fish off the dock at Lake Athabasca and turned it over to park wardens.

The Keepers of the Water conference began last Friday and brought together western and northern Canadian aboriginal leaders and environmental activists, all of whom expressed concern with the quality of water in the Athabasca River, downstream from oilsands development in Fort McMurray.

I’d say there’s definitely a problem. Uh, didn’t anyone see The Host?

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