When I lived in Canada, I was always both amazed and somehow amused at the number of machete murders and attacks. They have nowhere near the number of gun murders as the US, even % adjusted for population, but some of the crime up north is just spectacular. Hacking at other humans with a machete seems to be an accepted form of aggression, at least over the last 40 years. The whole thing with some poor kid getting murdered on a bus, and then eaten by his murderer/seat-mate until the cops came was especially amazing.
To be fair there has been a long-standing speculation - probably correct - that the water-logged feet are the by product of bad behaviour on larger ships in international waters, carried by currents to balmy BC.
Vancouver, despite having large parts of it's inner core remodeled to an East German aesthetic, is still a wonderful place. Even with rotting feet floating by on occasion.
