A Vancouver woman has been fruitless in a search for a person for nearly a month now — despite posters put up throughout East Vancouver and a social media post.
Alanna Griffin isn’t looking for a missing person, though. She’s trying to reunite a missing steel-toed boot with its owner.
On Feb. 10, the nurse was riding her usual route to work along the Adanac Bikeway when she saw the Blundstone boot fly out of the back of a fellow cyclist’s bike carrier.
“I decided to pick up this boot, and I was very sure that I would be swift enough to catch up to this gentleman,” Griffin told CBC’s On The Coast.
“But unfortunately, this cyclist is incredibly fast. So I biked with this boot as fast as I could and couldn’t catch up … I proceeded to go on my way to work, because I had to get to work, with a boot in my hand.”
Alanna Griffin’s Facebook post trying to find the boot owner has been shared dozens of times. (Alanna Griffin/Facebook)
Nearly a month later, missing posters asking the boot owner to get in touch with Griffin are dotted along the Adanac Bikeway.
She said she lost sight of the owner near the Georgia Viaduct.
A Facebook post she made about the situation proved popular, getting shared dozens of times.
(Koralee Nickarz/CBC)
“I don’t have a use for one Blundstone steel-toe boot,” Griffin said.
“Also, you know, I felt like this was someone’s workwear that they probably needed to do their job and they’re expensive … I could just imagine how I would feel if I got to work, and was missing a key piece of equipment to do my job that day.”
Griffin walks past where the boot first flew out of the “Cinderfella’s” bike carrier on the Adanac Bikeway. (Koralee Nickarz/CBC)
The nurse says the men’s brown Blundstone is a size 8.5.
She said some social media posters were hoping the situation would result in the boot owner and Griffin winding up in a relationship together, nicknaming the boot owner “Cinderfella” in a nod to the classic fairy tale Cinderella.
“I am in a relationship, so I’m not available, but happy to be friends,” Griffin added.