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Mystery balls on Sydney beaches found to contain faecal bacteria
bbc ^ | 01/20/2025 | Kelly Ng

Posted on 01/22/2025 11:30:37 AM PST by BenLurkin

It urged anyone who spotted the balls not to handle them and to contact authorities.

Besides the acids and bacteria, the balls also contained volcanic rock pumice.

The first batch of debris in October were at first mistakenly called "tar balls" but were later found to contain everything from cooking oil and soap scum molecules, to blood pressure medication, pesticides, hair, methamphetamine and veterinary drugs.

Sydney Water has reported that its water treatment plants are operating normally and that there were no known issues with waste systems in the city.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: australia; beachballs; mysteryballs; sydney; sydneyaustralia; tarballs
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1 posted on 01/22/2025 11:30:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!


2 posted on 01/22/2025 11:32:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s not just kangaroo poop?


3 posted on 01/22/2025 11:34:00 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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4 posted on 01/22/2025 11:35:24 AM PST by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

They are not of this Earth. These are alien balls from Uranus.


5 posted on 01/22/2025 11:35:54 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: 9YearLurker

“I’ve got big balls....”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwJ6OVSwkM


6 posted on 01/22/2025 11:36:51 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s just the Biden family cleaning out the family yacht.


7 posted on 01/22/2025 11:37:26 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: BenLurkin

“But Sydney Water has reported that its water treatment plants are operating normally and that there were no known issues with waste systems in the city.”

Because Clive and Gord already flushed the fatburgs out to the ocean.


8 posted on 01/22/2025 11:38:27 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Billthedrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skfZQ9fRpf4


9 posted on 01/22/2025 11:38:33 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: BenLurkin

Did some terrorists have the balls to do this?


10 posted on 01/22/2025 11:41:21 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: BenLurkin
Hmmm...little balls of fecal material?

Reminds me of that little poem you used to see all the time on the walls of public restrooms...

11 posted on 01/22/2025 11:42:43 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fnugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: dfwgator
Australia's balls aren't like my balls. Australia's balls are horrible, so sad. Mine are big beautiful balls! -- like no one's ever seen before! (typed in my best Trump voice LOL)
12 posted on 01/22/2025 11:43:01 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: BenLurkin

Someone ought to report Adam DeSchitz to Greenpeace


13 posted on 01/22/2025 11:43:25 AM PST by BigEdLB (Bye-bye Brandon)
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14 posted on 01/22/2025 11:44:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
> Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!

How did I know that 1) someone would post that before me, and b) it would of course be you.

:-)

15 posted on 01/22/2025 11:45:01 AM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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16 posted on 01/22/2025 11:45:08 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin

RINOs are washing up on Sydney beaches looking for their lost balls?


17 posted on 01/22/2025 11:47:06 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: BenLurkin

Everything in Australia wants to kill you ... even mystery poop balls on the beach.


18 posted on 01/22/2025 11:47:54 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: BenLurkin

Those who write on bathroom walls;
Roll their poo in little balls.
Those who read these words of wit;
Eat those little balls of sh*t.

- Anonymous


19 posted on 01/22/2025 11:48:33 AM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Folks in San Francisco are jealous.


20 posted on 01/22/2025 11:50:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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