Missing Bodies

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - A severed foot was found inside a hiking boot Saturday at a construction site in Kitsap County, but officials have no idea how it got there.

Deputy Scott Wilson of the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office said the foot had a sock on it, and it was wearing an athletic style hiking boot.

Further:

A number of severed feet have been found inside athletic shoes up and down the shorelines of lower British Columbia in recent months, but there was no indication whether this foot was linked to them in any way.

I love the way they bend over backwards to avoid admitting these are results of wild animal attacks, mostly bear, almost always on hikers wending their way through the back woods and forests of America, communing with nature, hoping to come across one or more of mother natures and Gaia's lordly creatures. The shoes with no bodies attached are from those nature lovers that succeeded in doing exactly that. The vast majority of these witless fools had a Disney-like attitude about these creatures, thinking of them as noble, caring, friendly and harmless creatures, to be hugged, petted and baby-talked to. More than a few have been women in the middle of their monthly, permeating the smell of blood throughout the forest for miles around. Now that's beyond stupid, since wild animals have a sense of smell far better than ours.

Be bad for tourism to admit the truth, I suppose. Worse for the bears, etc., if the general public stared realizing that our forests are once again - thanks to these animal lovers -filling up with deadly predators that see humans as just another food item on the menu. These people are the nitwits that would re-introduce Tyrannosaurus Rex back into the environment if they could. After all, T-Rex was here first!

Our predecessors, understanding the deadly threat to any human these beasts were, simply got rid of them. The forest, the ecology, all that stuff that supposedly depends on bear droppings or whatever, suffered not one whit at their disappearance. Even the prey animals did fine, to the point that annual deer, elk, moose and mountain goat hunts became a way of life for many.

But no, we had to have these nature loonies re-introduce grizzly bear, black bear, brown bear, cougars, mountain lion, wolves - all those carnivores that also eat humans - back into the forests.

So now we have shoes with feet still in them showing up on a regular basis, and nobody wants you tell you why.

The forest don't belong to the bears and the wolves and the mountain lions any more... they are all lifeforms that have lost the race for supremacy. Nature has it's own way of dealing with such also-rans... they become extinct, just like 99% of all the lifeforms that have ever existed on this world. Those are our forests now to enjoy. That's the way it really works.

But, sadly, there's still a lot people who think that a grizzly bear cub is so cute and cuddly, needing to be nurtured and protected. That it might someday end up eating your kid on a camping trip is just too damn bad... stay out of their forest! I bet they would change their minds in a heartbeat if they were faced with the prospect of being dinner for a hungry 1,000 pound adult grizzly.

They will say differently - you bet - but they will say that from a position of total safety in the middle of civilization. Toss them out into the middle of grizzly country, with a grizzly breathing down their necks smacking his lips, and then ask them how they feel about it being their turn to be the main course for dinner.

If they balk at the idea, you can always console then with the fact fhat the bears don't want their expensive custom hiking shoes.