{"id":1646,"date":"2008-05-27T02:33:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/27\/theres_something_fishy_afoot\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T02:33:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:33:52","slug":"theres_something_fishy_afoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/27\/theres_something_fishy_afoot\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s something fishy afoot&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the tale of <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/ennis\/2008\/04\/28\/your-father-was-an-iceman\">British Columbia&#8217;s very own iceman<\/a>, here&#8217;s another local story about the mysterious discovery of human remains and the use of genetic fingerprinting to establish kinship.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBut unlike Kwaday Dan Ts&#8217;inchi, whose story reads like a Discovery Channel documentary, the current events have the feel of a particularly spooky episode of the X-Files<sup><a href=\"#fn14330560304f04cb554705b\">1<\/a><\/sup>.<br \/>\nA right foot, wearing a sock and running shoe, washed up on a local beach this week. A minor mystery, you might think. But this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2008\/05\/22\/bc-severed-foot-richmond.html\">the fourth one this year<\/a>.<br \/>\nFour right feet. All wearing a sock and running shoe. All found along a relatively short stretch of BC coastline.<br \/>\nSaturday&#8217;s coverage in the <em>Vancouver Sun<\/em> reported that decomposing bodies break into 10 separate parts in the ocean \u2013 head, torso, two arms, two legs, two hands, and two feet. If the feet, protected by the shoes (which float, incidentally), are the only parts to survive, then the odds of only the right feet being discovered is 1 in 16. Well within the bounds of possibility.<br \/>\nBut still creepy.<br \/>\nPolice are checking the DNA obtained from the feet against local missing persons files, as well as from victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami. I&#8217;ll keep you posted\u2026 please insert dodgy foot-related puns in the comments section.<br \/>\nIn other BC news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2008\/04\/29\/bc-methane-telkwa-water.html\">our drinking water still isn&#8217;t flammable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><sup>1<\/sup> A Vancouver episode of course. None of that sunny Hollywood crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from the tale of British Columbia&#8217;s very own iceman, here&#8217;s another local story about the mysterious discovery of human remains and the use of genetic fingerprinting to establish kinship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}