Why are human feet washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest?

[Meatpie]

MYSTERY: This sneaker, which held a preserved human foot, was one of nine found on the coast in Washington state and Canada.

With the discovery last week of a human foot on a beach in Washington state -- the ninth found on the Pacific Northwest coast in three years -- the mystery of the missing feet has deepened.

"The main question is: Where do they come from?" said Dr. John Butt, a forensic pathologist who led the team that identified all 229 victims of the 1998 Swissair Flight 111 crash off Nova Scotia.

"And I don't mean [do they] come from humans," Butt said. "I mean, where do they come from?"

To that question, there are no answers, only theories. Lots of them.

Could they be victims of a major air disaster or sunken freighter? No; sonar and satellite would account for that. Could they be stowaways who didn't survive the voyage, tossed or jumped overboard? Suicides, or victims of foul play, maybe a serial killer? Hapless boaters who hit bad weather, or were possibly booze-cruising and fell overboard?

"The theories that were related to high-profile crashes or boats or missing kayakers -- we quickly ruled those out," said Jeff Dolan, director of provincial operations at the British Columbia Coroner's Office. "We were reasonably confident that, at the outset, at least one foot would be ID'd that way. But they all turned out to be negative."

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[deaddirty]

OK, 'fess up. Which of you guys has been in the Pacific Northwest recently? Meatpie? CJ? Feetboy - is that where he's gone to?