I haven’t yet done a link fest this week and with so many strange, interesting, odd, and somewhat amusing things happening around town within the last few days I’d decided round them all up here:

- Box from crematorium found at English Bay. “A broken wooden box–apparently from a crematorium in Chilliwack–was sitting in the sand.” [News 1130]

- Pregnant man is expecting another child. [CTV]

- Surrey man grows contender for world’s longest beard. [CBC]

- Mystery foot resurfaces. The seventh severed foot to wash ashore on BC’s coast over the last year. [CKNW]

Photo credit: elvis_hitler2000 on Flickr – From the Miss604.com Flickr Group

- Port Moody wants your wearable art. “Turn tea bags in tunics and read more about how you can get your art into this iconic event.” [City of Port Moody]

- How come no one told me Moses Znaimer was doing a talk today in West Vancouver? [North Shore News]

- Take a copy of the Royal City Record with you on your next trip, take a photo of the paper and your exotic foreign backdrop, and submit it to the Record’s “Paper Postcards” series. [RCR]

- Veterans can park for free, anywhere in Surrey. [Surrey Now]

- A scene from CSI, someone “rigged a bomb, dressed it up as a pink gift package, and put it on the doorstep of a young Walnut Grove family on Saturday morning.” [Langley Times]

Finally, a Vancouver History new oddity: In 1923, “Local newspapers reported that the Point Grey wireless station had picked up mysterious signals from the planet Mars. It was believed the Martians were attempting to contact us.”