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‘Human Feet in Shoes’: Grisly Debris from Japan Floating Toward U.S. West Coast

The Daily Mail reports:

A vast field of debris, swept out to sea following the Japan earthquake and tsunami, is floating towards the U.S. West Coast, it has emerged.

Human Feet in Shoes: Grisly Debris from Japan Floating Toward U.S. West Coast

More than 200,000 buildings were washed out by the enormous waves that followed the 9.0 quake on March 11.

There have been reports of cars, tractor-trailers, capsized ships and even whole houses bobbing around in open water.

Human Feet in Shoes: Grisly Debris from Japan Floating Toward U.S. West Coast

But even more grisly are the predictions of U.S. oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who is expecting human feet, still in their shoes, to wash up on the West Coast within three years.

‘I’m expecting parts of houses, whole boats and feet in sneakers to wash up,’ Mr Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has spent decades tracking flotsam, told MailOnline.

Several thousand bodies were washed out to sea following the disaster and while most of the limbs will come apart and break down in the water, feet encased in shoes will float, Mr Ebbesmeyer said.

Expect the unexpected, he concluded.

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  • Gruug
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:39pm

    Feet in sneakers…..more likely that should have read “bones of feet in sneakers”. Anything that last more then a day or two in the open ocean that can be consumed will be in short order. Also, much of what they claim will wash up on west coast beaches is projected because they don’t know that a lot of it will break up and sink in a matter of a months or less. Whole houses…come on. Common sense people.

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  • jagr1850
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 4:44pm

    we must get the EPA people out there to police the debris……that is a fine crisis for their little minds to tackle…..ha ha….

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  • suzy000
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 4:27pm

    You know…a few months back I remember reading an article where Oregon or Washington State found feet in shoes…a child’s I believe. I never once thought it could have floated from Asia. I hope the authorities that found these items months ago look across the Pacific.

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  • Cabo King
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:17pm

    the media is acting like this never happened, yet i see comershals still asking for hati support??? what… japan needs our help, and they are out allies!! NoBama get your head out of your ars !!!!! whats next America bombing Israel??

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  • Nigel2
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:26pm

    What a perfectly fitting place for garbage to accumulate, California!

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:24am

    Its not the last for many generations or the worst we will ever see, things are coming that will make this soon forgotten. The Tsunami in 2004 looks small in comparision now doesn’t it? You could have easily said the same about it being the worst we would ever see, but see some more we have…and will continue. Birth pangs have set in and they are closer together. We will have a large meteror or asteriod strike this planet some day and that will make this look like a______________?

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    • Nigel2
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:58pm

      Oh not to sound argumentative, but the tsunami in 2004 Indonesia WAS larger, and their was more death from it. Most likely since the earthquake was the largest ever recorded at 10.0

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  • caprica
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:13am

    blaze is going down?
    lie…no feet in a shoe……..why the hell your head line is syaing that..
    next head line will be
    Theblazeisbuncrupted – it is gone.

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  • I SPY
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:46am

    Why couldn’t this have happened to China? Japan doesn’t deserve this and no matter what Nobama thinks, we all hate China.

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  • Steven Sullivan
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:44am

    I like cheese.

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  • Oathkeeper1775
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:19am

    Tax the debris! Make them get a permit!

    We have to find a way to turn this debris into money…….for the govenement, I know, a huge
    beach sale.

    Start another union! Establish a new bachelor’s of science program at u of o.

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  • trueblueday
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:17am

    This is an unnecessary heading to this already tragic story that just keeps unfolding. We all understand – or at least try to wrap our head around – this immensely tragic situation. Just goes to show you that what happens to one country affects us all. I continue to hope for all that is good for the Japanese people as they try to put their lives back together.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:09am

    These feet are made for floatin’
    and that‘s just what they’ll do……

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  • stmike
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:50am

    Uh yeah I drive truck and I can tell you no 80,000lbs vehicle is going to float. Sea containers that are supposedly sealed fall of ships all the time and they don’t float.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:03am

      Shoot, I don’t drive a truck and i could have told you that! Even if it did manage to float for a few hours, after months there is no way a big enough air pocket would remain.

      Off topic, did you know that monster trucks floated! There is enough buoyancy in their huge tires! Saw a clip of Bigfoot steaming down a river, it was awesome! The tires also act as paddles.

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  • Mahdi Al-Dajjal
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:50am

    Two things;

    First regarding the tabloid-like headlines. This is what inevitably happens when you hire the editor of the Huffington Post to come over and start paying them to supervise your website content.

    Secondly, I have a quick question. If the people on the US west coast can salvage all the stuff in the floating debris and make use of it somehow (sell it, keep it, trade it, whatever), can the shady accountants in the Obama Administration add those totals to the GDP to show that the economy is indeed improving?

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:13am

      You have a valid point about editors from The Huf PO. What’s that about? Maybe they feel, if you can’t beat them, join them, and change them from within. As far as I’m concerened, she can go. This technique will not work with me. I believe the serious articles here are serious. The liberals are leading the nation to ruin and we need watchmen to sound the trumpet.

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  • ronmorgen
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:46am

    The Blaze has an important purpose to expose the insanity of the left, but girls teaching cows to jump fences, and feet in tennis washing ashore (someday) belong in another media source which I will avoid. Is some liberal trying to sabotage the site. Maybe the editor.

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  • OLDBIKEFIXER
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:14am

    Yes, limbs will become separated from their bodies, but marine animals will consume anything that is consumable long before shoes begin to wash ashore. The tragedy in Japan is bad enough. There’s no need for media hype from so-called “scientific experts” to make it even more grizzly just to increase their ratings. The best way to help Japan, other than actually going over there and doing some of the heavy lifting, would be to buy a new Honda or Nissan. A new 370-Z would look great in my garage!

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  • Marine Recon Dad
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:57am

    As a resident of California, I am steeling myself for the onslought of reports, headlines and lawsuits that will result from this tragic debris landing on our coastline.

    Maybe Barbara and Mr.Streisand, who live in Malibu, will form a committee that will send a message to Japan – NotOnMYShore.org Isn’t that how Liberals think?

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  • martyinhagerstown
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:53am

    This is the outcome of 20,000 lives. This will be the outcome of your life if you don’t wake up and look up to God. Is what is important to you just some junk on the sea? How about your feet?

    There is only one religion where God reaches down to man…in all others man reaches up to Him through works of some sort. If all are the same with only one different then perhaps you should explore the difference. John 3:16

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  • Danola
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:45am

    Months after Katrina, you could still smell the dead in the air. Bodies would turn up and FEMA would silently block off the area and do their work. And this is so much worse than Katrina. It is probably better for the Japanese that Obama has not offered to help.

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  • lampshade
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:44am

    The headline is misleading. No feet inside shoes have been floating ashore…. just someones prediction years down the road. BLAZE..quit hyping the headlines please.

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    • joedotdrane
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:12am

      I agree with Lampshade. Please give us the real deal, not just some tabloid headline. If the Blaze is going to be a supermarket rag, I’m outta here.

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:32am

      Agreed. Why is a site which carries such important news also carrying this tabloid spirit.. Does the editor not believe we are in peralous times. Do not mix serious conversation with levity.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:33am

      “If the Blaze is going to be a supermarket rag, I’m outta here.”

      The question is why are you STILL here then? The Blaze is a supermarket rag. A fine balance of trivial non-stories mixed with a generous helping of articles designed to infuriate the far right leaning Joe Sixpack with an occasional fun clip of a ghetto inspired Denny’s or Ihop girl on girl slapmatch ala Jerry Springer; “Ho!“ ”You da ho!“ ”my baby daddy will jackslap you, beotch…”

      Of course the one thing these articles have in common are the blown up, neon-lighted, attention grabbing headlines. That is what the Blaze staff is paid for after all…And…It is very effective because there is nothing more numerous than reading the comments made because of a particularly infuriating headline and seeing it is totally obvious that the poster did not even read the article because the headline was totally misleading.

      Of course I expect some negative feedback from my Blazebashing, and that is cool. Let’er rip folks. But I am seriously not trolling here, I am a good conservative, there are many folks here who will vouch for me. I mean no disrespect to Beck or the Blaze, I am merely acknowledging what it is. If the staff here even bother to read the comments made then maybe they can take it as literary criticism. I am here because I legitimately enjoy the site. This is one of the places I go for “pleasure reading.” I enjoy the articles and I like to comment on things here. I like the people this site attracts. Even the trolls, whom I love and cherish as wayward brothers and sisters…I am talking to you encinom! But let’s call a spade a spade. This is NOT a serious news site. If Beck envisioned it as such then he failed.

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    • felina g
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:33am

      Yes…….there have been. You musta missed it as well as the POINT.

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    • flasho
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:33am

      Agreed, PLEASE no sensationalizing the headlines! We can get that from many other sources. Joe Friday,”Just the facts, ma’am.”

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:46am

      Trolltrainer writes:

      “It is very effective because there is nothing more [h]umerous than reading the comments made because of a particularly infuriating headline and seeing it is totally obvious that the poster did not even read the article because the headline was totally misleading. ”

      Flena G responds to the initial post:

      “Yes…….there have been [feet washed up]. You musta missed it as well as the POINT.”

      Direct from the article:

      “But even more grisly are the predictions of U.S. oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who is expecting human feet, still in their shoes, to wash up on the West Coast within three years.”

      Thank you Felina, I rest my case. You are a true Blazer! Have a Moonpie!

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    • olddocotis
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Apparently you didn’t read the headline. Go read it again.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 4:18pm

      olddocotis (campbell, you a drunk?)

      Apparently YOU didn’t read the article! That is EXACTLY everyone’s point.

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    • leftcoastslut
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 6:20pm

      i had the same thoughts about some of the “who cares stories”, but i find it refreshing to be put back into focus. this is a hugh story for all those who lost their lives, no man is an island, each mans death deminishes me…

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    • MyKidsMom
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 1:13am

      I dont think the headline was misleading… it clearly says
      ‘Human Feet in Shoes’: Grisly Debris from Japan Floating Toward U.S. West Coast
      The operative word here is TOWARD… had you read it clearly instead of scanning, you would not have gotten the impression that they had already arrived.

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 11:14am

      So it is misleading then! There are no feet in shoes. Go read the bigger article that is linked in this one, no one has seen or picked up any feet floating in shoes. It is speculation.

      Now, that said, I am sure there are feet floating in shoes out in the pacific. At least until the flesh rots away, and I suppose if even a single foot bone is found in the shoe it *could* be considered a foot. There is precedence for this as shoes with feet have washed up in many places.

      But the point we are trying to make is the headline is sensationalized to draw in the reader. To an extent all headlines do this, but supermarket tabloids have made this an art. In this case The Blaze did not make up the headline, it just adapted it from the story on the wire. Even so, there are no human feet. It is simply conjecture.

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  • conservativeBC
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:32am

    tip

    Fox Envy: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Says Without Fox Glenn Will Fade To Irrelevance

    http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2011/04/fox-envy-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-says.html

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  • lillianrose
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:20am

    No surprise here, when ships have lost cargo out at sea, some of it eventually will end up on the shore lines.

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  • 9thCommandment
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:20am

    I guess this will ony add to our trade imbalance…..since I didn’t enter the AFLAC contest.

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  • BIGJAYINPA
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:11am

    I cannot even wrap my mind around what those poor people are going through. The sheer magnitude of the devastation is beyond imagineing. My prayers have gone out to these people, I feel so helpless and unable to do more. Sending money feels so detached.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:46am

      They have behaved in a manner that we here can only dream of. No rioting, looting or fighting. Prayers go out to them.
      Didn’t we have a story a couple of months ago about all the feet that wash up on the coast over the years? I’m not surprised we will get more of that.

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  • Tifn8r
    Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:08am

    Any predictions on the government power grab as a result of this?

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 8:38am

      In order to help my kids (9,15, 1nd 18) and their friends understand the magnitude of this tragedy I told them that “I have never seen more destruction in my lifetime” and that this is the worst disaster other than a devastating nuclear incident they would ever witness in their lifetimes as well. Pretty powerful words for them to contemplate. I think it was an impressional moment….. in their mind.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:03am

      PA PATRIOT, I would say that is a fair assessment for most of us and hope this will be the last for many generations. I bet the hair on the environmentalist’s necks in CA is already standing up.

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    • felina g
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:17am

      The media silence on Japan is deafening.

      Why ?

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    • restorehope
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:30am

      If a tragedy like that happened here, I wonder if the people on the West coast would react as nobly as the Japanese have? Or will they respond like some of the folks in New Orleans who looted and behaved very badly when adversity came their way?

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 9:57am

      hey surfs up…with extra feet you can stay on the board easier……

      banjarmon  
    • rappini
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:04am

      Felina G, the media are to concerned about Glenn Beck leaving Fox.

      rappini  
    • junior1971
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 10:16am

      There will be an earthquake tax. This amount to be determined by the magnitude. Then the psunami tax. Also determined by severity. Then the detatched body parts tax. To be determined by which parts are detatched. Then, of course, the aftermath tax to be determined by the amount of debris. There will need to be at least 100,000 new gov employees to clean up the dying ocean and collect these new taxes.Last but not least, a spectator tax. To be determined by the number of people that see the debris floating in the dying ocean. After all, it was climate change that caused this earthquake. We should all be ashamed of ourselves!

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 11:33am

      @ junior1971
      Very good. Don’t forgot the 50,000 new IRS agents to count the tax money and jail anyone not willing to pay. It should be interesting to see what washes up in the future.

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    • Mee the People
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:33pm

      wow, im thinking jobs for the unemployed

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:40pm

      Just think of how our politicians can scar us into paying more taxes to prevent this sort of thing. That is all our politicians think about.

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    • Anti_Spock
      Posted on April 9, 2011 at 2:18pm

      I’m sure some slimeball democrat will seek monetary clean-up damages from the govt of Japan once it litters their pristine beaches, disrupting their perfect little communities where everything is green.

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on April 10, 2011 at 9:46am

      Feet in shoes three years from now? This scientist obviously failed any science subjects related to biology. Any tissues on them feet will have disintigrated or been consumed long before that. Floatsom yes, body part, highly unlikely.

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