"The Case of the Bloody Foot"
Years ago I had decided to pop up into the town centre. Now there were two basic routes I could take, so I chose one and went on my way. Along my travels, I started noticing bloody footprints on the pavement - I was following their journey back to their origins...

Just one right foot, each time spaced well apart so whoever it was had been clearly running. Due to the shape of the print, the hapless individual was either barefoot or wearing socks, and the blood appeared to have been running down to the inside of the foot, by the way it had been pooling with every foot-fall. Every so often, the foot was turned inwards, so it looked like the victim had been looking behind them on their “leisurely jog”.

After only a short while, I tracked the footprints back to a house where the blood was still on the white tile doorstep. Thinking better of it, I did not venture further, but turned around and went the other way back into town. As it would happen, this was the route the footprints had taken, themselves - a good 10 or 12 minute walk. All the way they showed the signs of the person turning around whilst running for their life. They stopped by a bollard in a service road that lead into the high-street.

As luck would have it, there was a policeman on duty, so I relayed my strange and gruesome discovery to him. He jotted it all down and I left my contact details.

I heard nothing more about it and by the next day, rain had washed away the majority of the evidence...
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 13:27, 6 replies)

oh.
well that was an anti-climax.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 13:32, closed)

hehe, for me as well, I'm afraid.
I wish I knew what actually happened, or even if the police actually bothered to follow it up...
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 13:43, closed)

I don't get it.
You traced the footsteps back to a house, then went the OTHER way into town and they went that way too?

Edit: Ignore me, I'm being thick.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 13:46, closed)

Basically I found the prints on my way into town and followed them to their starting point. I then decided to turn around at that point, and follow them to their destination...
edit: hehe, no probs - I think I might have not worded it in the clearest of ways
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 13:54, closed)

Someone with an arterial bleed
runs to get a taxi/lift to hospital?
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 14:37, closed)

Personnally I think it's unlikely...
Taxis don't use the service road where the trail stopped, there where better places to stop to get a lift/taxi on the way, the hospital is in the opposite direction, and why not just call an ambulance?

The only reason to run when loosing blood like that is if you're being chased...
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 14:45, closed)