"...Our bad." Yes folks, the great Green Lake spike saga has been solved and it is all the Parks Department's fault. Police have closed the case into a possible local foot hater, after the Parks Department realized that they had placed the spikes in the lake--more than 20 years ago. The originally curved metal stakes were used to hold down plastic sheeting on the bottom of the lake. Over the last two decades, some......

Just when you thought the Green Lake spike story was coming to an end, a dive crew has found 40 additional spikes at the bottom of the lake today. The discovery nearly doubles the number of spikes found, though only 15 of the spikes found today were sharpened. Somehow, that doesn't make us feel much better about the whole thing. They were found on the south end of the lake, 10 feet away from the......

"Divers at Green Lake Beach" courtesy of the charming and delightful Seattle Municipal Archives. Two more sharpened metal spikes—buried on the bottom of Green Lake—were found by divers today. After being painfully discovered by a boater and his foot on Sunday night, police divers have located 41 more spikes buried around the lake's boating center with the sharp side pointed up. There is speculation the spikes have been in the lake for some time, upwards......

Not satisfied to let British Columbia have all the foot-related gruesome fun, someone decided to place sharpened metal spikes at the bottom of Green Lake. More than three dozen machine-sharpened, two- to three-foot-long metal spikes were discovered Sunday night, placed on the lake bottom around the boating center. Hey, B.C. might have its severed feet, but Seattle could have impaled ones. Warning signs have been placed around the lake and the boating center notifying swimmers......