This Little Piggy...
By Margaret Lyons on May 17, 2004 10:38PM
Ew! Chicagoist is still dealing with the oh-so-narsty story of two detectives and two severed feet. Detectives Jones and Schleder investigated the case of an impounded car whose trunk contained a box. And in that box, there was a bag. And in that bag, there were severed feet. Luckily, no foul play: the car belonged to a bankrupt podiatrist who had borrowed the feethere comes the grossest partfour years ago from a podiatry school and had totally forgotten about them. He assumed the bank had repoed his car, but it turned out that the city had towed it. Toed it, if you will. Some lingering questions include but are not limited to: feet can last for four years? Were they a set of feet, from the same person, or were they just two otherwise unassociated feet? Podiatry schools just give out feet; you dont have to check them back in or anything?
This reminds us of one of our favorite episodes of Six Feet Under, where Claire steals a foot and puts it in Gabes locker. "Yes, I know stealing a foot is weird," she admits. "But living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird." 6FU starts again on June 13.
Also, the Sun-Timess use of the word "gumshoe" made Chicagoist really, really want to play some Carmen Sandiego. Loot, warrant, foot!