Canadian feet mystery

Anyone missing six feet? There's something weird going on in British Columbia, Canada. Since last August, the people there have been discovering severed feet, most of which were still in training shoes. Of course, nobody has claimed the shoes, nor the feet. And the Coroner's office is none the wiser. Whose feet are these? Where did they come from? What happened? All they can say is, it's not the job of a serial killer.


According to various news reports, the first right foot was discovered in August last year, the second right foot was also found in August, followed by two more right feet in February and May this year, a left foot two weeks ago and the latest right foot a few days later. It's a complete mystery, all right!

Speaking of which, I'm reminded of my schooldays when one of my teachers (Koh Sin Ghee) used to confound us by bringing up strange names. Dingle Foot, Dingle Foot, he shouted at us in excitement one day. We ignored him. Why shouldn't we ignore him if he went on babbling words that sounded like some strange foot disease? No, no, he insisted, it's not a foot disease. Sir Dingle Foot, a famous British lawyer and politician. Ah, okay, thank you.

Maybe that's the reason why I can't remember much about Dingle Foot, SIR Dingle Foot. We didn't listen much to my teacher's babbling but apparently, the Foots was an eminent family in Britain. Sir Dingle's equally illustrious siblings were John Foot (Lord Foot) and Hugh Foot (Lord Caradon) but the most prominent of them is Michael Foot, still alive and kicking around with his feet. There's also Paul and Oliver Foot (sons of Hugh) and the daddy of them all, Isaac Foot. Gosh, I didn't realise until today that there are so many Foots around.