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eppur_se_muova

(36,247 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 03:23 PM Jan 2012

Shock as blue balls fall from sky {BBC}

That's the title of the link ... the title of the article itself is more carefully worded ...



Bournemouth resident mystified by 'blue sphere shower'

A man in Dorset has been left mystified after tiny blue spheres fell from the sky into his garden.

Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm.

He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: "[They're] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar."

The Met Office said the jelly-like substance was "not meteorological".

Mr Hornsby, a former aircraft engineer, said: "The sky went a really dark yellow colour.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-16754531




Um, sounds like another airliner dumped its chemical toilet ...

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Shock as blue balls fall from sky {BBC} (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Jan 2012 OP
LOL! applegrove Jan 2012 #1
could be a toilet dump but that doesnt explain the sky color leftyohiolib Jan 2012 #2
the man in Dorset should not have forgotten his wife's birthday Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #3
 

leftyohiolib

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2. could be a toilet dump but that doesnt explain the sky color
Tue Jan 31, 2012, 03:27 PM
Jan 2012

but youd think hed know the difference being and aircraft engineer

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