{"id":519696,"date":"2026-03-07T05:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519696\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:17:22","slug":"vancouver-woman-searches-for-cinderfella-who-lost-steel-toed-blundstone-boot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519696\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver woman searches for ‘Cinderfella’ who lost steel-toed Blundstone boot"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Vancouver woman has been fruitless in a search for a person for nearly a month now \u2014 despite posters put up throughout East Vancouver and a social media post.<\/p>\n

Alanna Griffin isn’t looking for a missing person, though. She’s trying to reunite a missing steel-toed boot with its owner.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

\"Alanna<\/p>\n

Alanna Griffin’s Facebook post trying to find the boot owner has been shared dozens of times. (Alanna Griffin\/Facebook)<\/p>\n

Nearly a month later, missing posters asking the boot owner to get in touch with Griffin are dotted along the Adanac Bikeway.<\/p>\n

She said she lost sight of the owner near the Georgia Viaduct.<\/p>\n

A Facebook post she made about the situation proved popular, getting shared dozens of times.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

(Koralee Nickarz\/CBC)<\/p>\n

“I don’t have a use for one Blundstone steel-toe boot,” Griffin said.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

\"Griffin<\/p>\n

Griffin walks past where the boot first flew out of the “Cinderfella’s” bike carrier on the Adanac Bikeway. (Koralee Nickarz\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The nurse says the men’s brown Blundstone is a size 8.5.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“I am in a relationship, so I’m not available, but happy to be friends,” Griffin added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Vancouver woman has been fruitless in a search for a person for nearly a month now \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[205169,49,48,26471,55],"class_list":["post-519696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-alanna-griffin","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-facebook-post","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}