Posted on 12/21/2005 12:36:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
TOKYO (AP) - A disc-shaped piece of ice of unknown origin plummeted from the sky onto a golf course near Tokyo Wednesday, narrowly missing players on the fairway but causing no injuries, police said.
Authorities were investigating the bizarre incident, said Saitama prefectural (state) police spokesman Masahiko Kuwashima.
Four players at the Heisei Club golf course in Saitama, just outside Tokyo, heard a loud thud and found a disc-shaped hunk of ice - about 50 centimeters (20 inches) in diameter and 15 centimeters (6 inches) thick - broken into several pieces, Kuwashima said.
He said police investigators have asked the Transport Ministry to check a possibility that ice stuck on an airplane might have fallen, and are waiting for the ministry's response.
There have been several past reports of ice falling in Chiba prefecture (state) near Tokyo's Narita International Airport, Kuwashima said.
But there is no airport in Saitama, and the golf course involved Wednesday is not known to be beneath a flight route, he said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the mysterious incident, Kuwashima said.
"It's puzzling," he said, adding that the ice, which weighs 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds), was being kept in a police department freezer.
Fell off a flying saucer obviously.
U.F.O. Unidentified Frozen Object.
Obligatory "don't eat yellow snow" comment.
New hi-tech, miniaturized hail storm.
As if earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and dynamited levees weren't enough, now we have to put up with being bombarded with flying ice? C'mon Karl, give it a rest for a bit, okay?
Lol. And he hasn't even gotten to the locusts yet.
Scheeeze. The ozone hole was enough to worry about. Now we have to deal with an ice hole?
Not to mention some "ground under repair" on the golf course.
Joe Dirt found one of those. He thought it was a meteor.
Might have been a piece of that firmament structure. If there weren't holes in it before there are now since Apollo went to the moon.
Why could'nt it have been money the green stuff.....lol
What can u do with ICE besides add it to a drink...lol
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