Inexplicable foot in a tree

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I have no idea why there is a disembodied mannequin foot in a tree in Cambridge, MA, but so there is. Sort of gruesome, eh? Maybe io9 should do another post on severed limbs.

Update: my friend John O reminds me that he did a post on severed hands two years ago. He beat us all to the punch! (ha ha).

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