Two of the blue items are foot slippers. The third blue item is a hair net. These items were worn by a black market street surgeon performing liposuction out of the back of his '97 Chevy Tahoe. Note the oil-like blotches on the pavement. They are in fact fat stains from an earlier surgery. You've obviously stumbled upon his regular operating location. The only thing missing is his face mask, though for a street surgeon, he's already ahead of the curve by wearing feet and hair protection. A gust of wind blew all the beard guards off the butchers at Costco I don't even want to think about this. How much is inside? Criminals, not wanting to leave evidence in the form of footprints at the scene of a crime, wore shoe covers which they later discarded. AH HA!!! Yet more spoor from the never-been-caught-on-camera Northern Californian Semi-Suburban Yeti. They wander the nocturnal streets of Northern Californian suburs, destroying Camrys, dinging other vehicles and marking there territory with blue excrement and phallic wood carvings on neighborhood fences. Occasionally, they are also known to have demolished and eaten electronic signs and they are especially fond of shopping bags, although they discard the handles because they are stringy and hard to digest. Wow... all of these detective thingies are really connected. Some factories require workers to have a pair of shoes that are clean, because the factory is kept excessively clean. In absense of such shoes, new employees wear these things on their shoes. So, in short, someone littered. The first picture looks like it has a shoe print on it. Perhaps those items are used to cover worker's shoes when entering people's homes, such as a cable company or electrian or something. Probably a case of littering. :( Boo littering! they are teporary sanitary foot covers. The kind you get when going through a historical house or somewhere they want to preserve the floors from the dirt and scuff marks from your street shoes. Someone in the neighbourhood has just had new furniture delivered...these are the "booties" that the delivery guys put over their work boots (which they can't take off according to the safety board) to protect the carpets when they're inside a customer's home. Either that or someone just had emergency street-side surgery... can't explain the absence of blood though...Hmmmmmmm.... Someone working in a hospital realized as they got into their car that they had forgotten to take them off at work, so they took them off before heading home and threw them out of their car window as they were leaving the parking spot. Blue booties used in heist to obscure footprints from being left. When they got to the getaway car, the car left immediately. Booties were dropped out of the window when they stopped at the stop sign. a carpet cleaning crew discarded their used booties on the street before they split A carpet-installation crew left behind their carpet booties after finishing the house they were working on. Looks like someone wandered out of the hospital with their shoe covers on. Escape from a prison hospital! LOOK OUT, ROB!!!!!!! Movers of a grand piano or some other such large piece of furniture didn't care enough to throw their little blue booties (used to keep the inside of homes clean) in the garbage. These are sanitary shoe covers, usually worn by doctors and nurses when they're doing surgeries. Either someone took them off before getting into their car or threw them out the window at the stop sign. (Since there are three, my money's on "thrown out the window.") They look like hospital scrub slippers. I would assume that someone that changed at the hospital either through them out the window while driving home, or they were blown out an open car window by a gust of wind. the booties that moving men wear in somebody's house were left behind. They look like those foot coverings worn by operating room staff. Maybe they fell out of someone's bag? Someone getting off work at the local hospital or clinic, tossed their sterile shoe covers and headgear, rather than throwing them in the proper receptacle. They are shoe covers of the type worn by hospital staff to keep germs from their shoes from getting into sick people. obviously, as one of the interns left the hospital - with their shoe-booties on - a concerned citizen ran them over to remind them that they don't stay sterile when you wear them outside. The impact from the collision flung the booties far away from the intern, who happy to escape with her life, didn't retrieve them. Someone used the bootie covers to protect their nice shoes from getting damaged, during a rainstorm. A doctor left surgery very quickly because he had a hot date. homless people were trying to make some pocketchange by window washing Doctors booties. suck it. They're booties that slip over regular shoes so you keep the floor clean when you're working on someone's house/business. My guess is a crazed ball peen hammer weilding nut bar attached the Blueman Group(tm) tour bus and this is all that's left of them. Being unholy clones in the first place, their agent simply cloned a few more and the show went on without a hitch. Is there a hospital anywhere near there? Or a mattress store? It looks like somebody was wearing shoe covers, and as has often happened to me, forgot to remove them at the end of the day, accidently wearing them out to their car. As they bent down to unlock the door of their parked car, they realized that they were still wearing them and nicked them off. Is there a hospital nearby? Aren't those hospital booties? Clearly some welfare/medicare recipient just got out of the hospital from their stomach stapling and tossed these out the window of their SUV as they drove away from the hospital, laughing at the system they just sucked thousands of dollars from. No doubt they replaced the hospital slippers with their vintage Air Jordans, purchased from eBay, as they sped off for celebratory pizza, beer, and snarky jests at the middle class who funded the entire operation. That's just good detective work there, folks. Two people walked to their car and took these protective shoe booties off after a.)visiting someone really sick, like in a ICU, b.) visiting a child in the neo-natal unit, or c.) being present at a C-section at UC Davis Med Center. According to Google Maps (I'm in Philly), the UC Davis Medical center is right down the street. One of the staff stopped at the stop sign, realized that they were still wearing their protective cap and shoe protection and discarded them out of the window. It was a calm day and had been discarded recently so they were all still in the same vicinity. --Mike mike@oeth.net Since these are the booties/shoe covers worn by physicians in clean rooms such as the OR, it is obvious to me that said physicians were walking down the street only to find themselves abducted and thrown from their booties.....was it aliens?...was it a band of crazed hooligans?.....we may never know. ~Cheryl Louisville, Ky Three people went running in blue scrub shoes. Upon reaching their destination, they did a dance of joy and flung the shoes to the ground, leaving them there. An auto mechanic, after a long day at work, littered the street outside his home with the surgical shoe covers (s)he wears to protect his customers clean cars. Four fashion models where riding around in their sportscar talking about all the latest in fall fashion. The driver made a off hand remark about the ridiculousness of the latest trend; blue socks. The other three quickly realized their faux pau and threw their Calvin Klein blue socks out the window before the driver could catch them dead in those things. Detectives left behind shoe covers after investigating a bloody massacre. Detectives left behind shoe covers after investigating a bloody massacre. Note: they were careful not to step in the blood. It's common for contractors, HVAC workers, pest control sprayers, and other service providers who have to work inside and outside of your home or office building to wear these booties while inside so they don't track in dirt from the outside. Not everyone has a Kirby Vacuum Cleaner Rep coming over every day, right? (thank goodness) Since they can't really be re-used, these were probably just prematurely disposed of on the street instead of in the trash can. FYI, these booties also have value for criminals (preventing footprints) in the commission of a heinous crime, as can be seen in the ending of the movie "the Departed". Oooh, that makes me wonder about THESE booties! --John, Rock Hill, SC p.s. I thought pic #1 was the evidence of wipeout during an out-of-control mechanic's creeper race and #4 was cleary evidence of the Unknown Comic in a hurry on the way to a gig. Your site is part of what's great about the world today. On-the-fly car mechanics? Maybe some kind of street doctor? Elves? Josie and Kelley were through. They couldn't believe what happened! The day started off normal enough, but then things went haywire. As they went into the operating room, everything was in order. Josie assumed her station with the instruments, Kelley manned the camera. They were working on a documentary for class. As the patient was brought in, everything was ready. The operation started normally, but then somehow, the guy worke up from his anestesia! He started thrashing around, and Josie, not able to restrain him let go of the instrument table. His arm thrashed the table, sending a scalpal flying! It landed right in his eyeball, puncturing it and lodging itself in his brain. Needless to say, everyone was dismissed from the room. They rushed out of the hospital, traumatized, and never even took their scrubs off. As they drove home, Kelley realized that they still had them on and took off her headnet and booties and tossed them out the window, as they went to surely spend a forlorn night at the apartment. One thing was for sure, it sure would be an interesting documentary! These look like disposable shoe covers. One would wear them in a place like a hospital or where dirty shoes would not be wanted. They probably fell out of a broken garbage bag and blew away. Blue blankets for the (now rather cold) Elves. Some Hospital worker got beamed up to an alien spaceship and his clothes wouldn't beam up through the transporter because of all the contaminated hospital bacteria! It happened to me once before, or at least that's my story of why I woke up naked on the neighbors lawn! Obviously, a vicious scrub-and-run accident occurred. somebody got a new mattress delivered and the delivery guys lost their little booties. Looks like scrub cap. They are either shoe covers or hairnets--maybe for doctors, and the person who uses them parks there every day, sometimes dropping them? Person in crosswalk finds protective clothing doesn't (against traffic). Or hazmat worker remembers he hasn't changed (duhoh!) and you have discovered the latest bio-radiant-toxo release - 'evolution' to follow... from an ambulance, possible car accident Those hospital hats were being worn by the purse theif to hide his footprints. Too bad, sucker! You can clearly see the sneaker marks on it. Oh, the third one? it was actually on his head... duh Repairmen frequently were shoe covers like these to protect the floors of their customers. I suspect that these used ones fell out of the truck before they could be properly disposed of. someone had dressed up as a surgeon There was a house tour, and visitors had to wear these booties to keep the house clean. These were taken by mistake and discarded in the street. These are foot coverings, or " booties", worn by surgeons and nurses. They got drunk down at the local ER and ran nekkid into the night.....but nekkid. Booties that repairmen wear when they enter your home. They slide over their shoes so they don't ruin your carpet and they never have to remove their shoes. escaped mental patient Appears to be medical waste. Either some tired doctors litterd their hats on their way home or a medical waste truck dropped some of its load. Those are painter's booties. We wear them in houses where the owner has hardwood floors and we dont want to scuff them up. They probably fell out of the truck when the door was opened, or else blew from the worksite. Or some lazy ass just littered. These could be from someone who workes in a sterile environment, like a nurseing home. How can it be that every single picture can be attributed to women drivers. Amazing! They look like the little slipper things surgeons put over their shoes when operating. Maybe there was some impromptu middle-of-the-street surgery going on, or maybe they fell out of a dumpster or off the back of a garbage truck and blew over to where you found them. body bags, for pixies The furniture delivery van guys put their surgical booties on to deliver, and then carelessly shucked them off onto the street. This is a clear case of spontaneous combustion. It actually happens more often than most people realize. These look like surgical hair covers. I'm betting they blew out of a dump truck carried medical waste. A man woke up in a bathtub filled with ice, noticed a guy in scrubs writing him a note about his kidney, jumped out of the tub and chased him down the street. The Kidney-monger ran so fast that he ran right out of his scrubs-booties. They look like cleanroom booties (disposable overshoes that keep people from carrying dirt from one area to another). It's hard to tell from the photo, so they could also be something like a hairnet. Google Maps says that 46th & T is right next to "UC Davis Medical Center", so they may be used in a surgical theatre. Those are shoe coverings used by doctors during surgery. Seeing as how 46th and T is right near the UC Davis Medical Center, it is safe to say that a bunch of people left after some procedure to go off and party, tossing their shoe coverings out of the sunroof. those are discarded shoe covers. often used by service workers who enter their clients houses to work. Plumbers, HVAC, etc. If this is a residential area maybe they plopped off into the curb instead of the van when he/she took them off. 3 surgeons just out of work went to the bar got a little crazy surgery caps or some kind of cloth for cleaning a car quickeroo. Three male food service workers just got off shift. At a stop sign they noticed pair of hot women checking them out. They then realized they women were looking cuz the boys still had their hair nets on. In a fit of embarrassment, the boys thru the hair nets out the cars windows, 2 in front and 1 in back and announced they were quitting their job just like in the movie "Fast Times as Ridgemont High" Three escaped mental patients disposed of their hygiene specialist disguises while in thier getaway laundry truck. They look like surgical booties to me... Maybe Sacramento is home to a gang of littering doctors? Three cafeteria workers quit together, & threw their caps down in rage. They may have connections to overseas opium farms. Booties and a hair cap from a hospital. Maybe a new father rushing out the building and down the street after he saw those little sixes for the first time. Surgical booties. http://www.fotosearch.com/BDX430/bxp161331/ Marching bands wear bright, shiny shoes, and to keep them from getting scuffed during practice they cover them with blue booties until just before performing. Someone must have forgotten to collect these. two people finally got over getting their shoes dirty and pulled off their blue hairnetty things and ran off into the sunset. The third picture looks like a hairnet, beardnet, or shoe covers of some sort. They're frequently used in kitchens and other environments that need to be kept clean. They are also one use items and are thrown away each day. As for what happened, they may have been left on top of a car or have flown out a window while driving. They're very light, so it is easy for the wind to pick them up. Duh, those sterile booties that go over your shoes before entering the operating room. they were discarded shortly after the surgeon lost its patient. much like the latex gloves are pulled off and thrown into the trash in a dire manner. Some father-to-be was in one of those germ-free zones in the hospital, and he was wearing the little booties, and he was so excited to have a baby that he spaced and wore them home, then kicked them off in another fit of joy and left them in the street for you to find? Am I close? Doctor socks! They go over your shoes in the hospital. Some doctor -or visitor- took them off their shoes and then littered. teenage litterbug Two hospital(theatre -or 'OR' as said in the US) workers getting into the car after a long night shift realised they forgot to take their booties off. Having trodden in sprayed blood from fifteen drive by shooting victims they decided chose not to bring the dirt into the car with them. Poor cleaners what ever the story. Those are elephant rubbers. Obviously two elephants got randy as they strolled down the street. used for oil change Addendum to my last entry re: the furniture delivery guys... The 4th item (or the mate of the 3rd) is on the floor of the delivery truck... Find THAT...find the perpetrator! LOL rabid lunch ladies shedding their hairnets Doctor exploded Psych Ward booties? Better lock your windows at night. they are show covers, discarded by people from a contaminated area j three nurses quit there job and threw there hair nets on the ground. A hospital hat and slippers... hospital patient went through the wrong door, aimlessly wandering the streets, sideswiped by a vehicle, the body is probably lying on the grass... go look. After stealing a baby, the pervert quickly got rid of his disguise; he had dressed as a nurse. I dunno... Ask Veronica Mars! That lumberjack guy had sex with Babe the Blue Ox and used defective condoms. They did it three times. They are hospital booties to put over your shoes from the nearby Hospital.