Mick Hartley

A month ago it was four: then, in the space of a couple of days, we get five:

Another disarticulated human foot has been found in B. C. coastal waters. That makes five feet discovered near Vancouver since last summer.

Two right feet were found within six days of each other in August, on different small islands only a few dozen kilometres apart. A third right foot washed up in February, a little further to the south. Last month, a fourth right foot, reportedly a woman's, was spotted by a passerby in the sweeping Fraser River delta, closer to Vancouver.

And on Monday, yet another foot was found, also in the delta. A left foot, this one. Like all the others, it was encased in a running shoe, sock on.

and six.

Another human foot has washed up on B.C. shores — the sixth in less than a year and the second in three days.

The latest foot was discovered on a sand spit in this Vancouver Island community Wednesday morning. The foot, reportedly a right foot in a black Adidas running shoe, was discovered at about 10:30 a.m. by a woman searching for rocks.

Five right and one left. So what are the odds for the next one? Is it like tossing a coin – what's gone before makes no difference? Or should one assume that whoever/whatever's responsible favours the right (or – sinister chord – discards the right), so the next'll likely be right? Or is left more likely, since there presumably remain four left feet still undiscovered?