Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 24 (UPI) -- A Columbus, Ohio, city employee found what he believed to be a severed foot, prompting him to call police over what turned out to be a shoe filled with debris. The employee, who works at the Columbus' water-treatment plant, was walking near the Scioto River Tuesday morning when he stepped on a shoe with a bone in, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported. Advertisement The shoe appeared to be full and had a bone visibly sticking out of it, so the employee, whose name was not released, alerted police. When police took a closer look at the shoe, they found it was full of sticks and dirt, and the bone appeared to be from a steak, not a human skeleton, homicide detective Ron Custer said. To be certain, though, police collected the shoe, along with other bones and debris from the area, for further investigation. "There's nothing in the area that shows us a crime was committed," he said. "When you get down along the water, you get a hodgepodge of stuff."
