Did I just step on your foot?

This bizarre series of findings is probably well known in Canada, but being outside the country I am pretty detached from it. The findings are this: five right feet have been found of the shores of the west coast. I have been trying to catch up on Canadian news once in a while. And it seems every time I view a news site, the same story always appears -- another foot has been found!

A sixth foot was found in June. A left foot! It was wondered if it could match one of the lone rights. But alas, the sixth foot was a copycat. It was planted, and actually a animal foot (dog's I believe?).

Police won't say any information about the feet. But CBC has reported one foot to be female. It would seem easy to determine much from someone's feet, without the use of dna testing. Can you not easily tell if a foot is male or female and the general age??

I think the feet have all been in running shoes. This seems to narrow down the choices, since no one wears runners. So it would seem to be either an unfashionable male, a woman just from the gym or a lesbian.

To find a foot would have to suggest someone out there was murdered or probably tortured. The newspaper articles are suggesting they may be coming from an airplane reckage. Seriously though?? Five right feet?

Generally, murder is hard to take. We are flooded with murder stories in every newspaper. We have to distance ourselves from these kinds of stories, because, frankly, they get depressing. So why, when the murder turns bizarre or serial does it become fascinating??

When I started hearing about these feet, I instantly thought of some Saw-esque serial killer on the Gulf Islands. Perhaps the moral tale of the torture would be something along the lines of 'walk a mile in this man's shoes'. There has to always been a moral tale behind every torture scheme in Saw, usually something to do with appreciating life more..

Perhaps serial killing becomes interesting because it's seen not as senseless violence, but rather a true psychological condition. It becomes more of a film. We want to know who, what, why. And humans like to be scared. Perhaps we want to think there is someone out there that will kill, kill, kill. Until a trusty RCMP catches him.

The Gulf islands -- harbouring not just boats but.......serial killers???