IL Boy Catches Human Foot…Not

You’re out fishing with your son and he reels in a human foot. Bone ticking out, the whole deal. You don’t want to touch it, then it falls off the bait anyway.

Naturally, you freak, call the cops and stand on the shore while divers comb the water for at least a foot, possibly a whole body. Or two.

That’s what happened on Wednesday in Illinois’ Lake Marie. The rest of the story, from the Chicago Tribune:

> Eight hours and an extensive search of the lake later, the big one that got away turned out to be a Halloween prop that only looked like a severed foot.

> The fake foot was found about 5:30 p.m. after the Lake County Sheriff’s Marine Unit and the Antioch Fire Department Dive Team used sonar equipment to search the murky waters.

> Authorities believe the child and the two adults he was with genuinely believed they might have hooked a real human body part. The child told officials the foot fell off his line before he was able to reel it in.

> Taxpayers won’t be footing an extra bill for the search. Lake County Sheriff Lt. Christopher Thompson said, “Needless to say, everyone involved is relieved that the foot turned out to be a fake one.”

My only questions:

> Who throws fake body parts into a lake?

> Did anyone search the lake for muskies?