Blue balls on British beaches originated from power plant

UPI ^ | NOV. 20, 2023 / 12:09 PM | By Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

Spongy rubber balls that have been washing up on British beaches in recent days originated from the Hartlepool Power Station, the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust said. Photo courtesy of the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust/Facebook

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Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Thousands of mysterious blue rubber balls that washed up on British beaches in recent days originated from a power plant, officials said.

The Tees Valley Wildlife Trust said the spongy rubber balls are used to clean pipes at the Hartlepool Power Station and occasionally spill out into the sea when too much pressure builds up.

"The balls are made of rubber and are not radioactive, but of course they are still a danger to marine wildlife," the trust said in a Facebook post.

The trust is asking members of the public to report locations at which the balls wash up on the beach so energy company EDF, which operates the power plant, can retrieve them.

[Vermont Lt]

Blue balls ya say?

‘tis a shame.

[gundog]

This beach?

[Mouton]

Was it a naked beach?

[SaxxonWoods]

The water must be really cold.

[dfwgator]

The water must be really cold.

It's deep, too!

[CFW]

Wait. I thought blue balls were from....oh, after reading the article...... never mind!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Always. :)

[BlackbirdSST]

Those ladies are dedicated!

[Daveinyork]

In Pennsylvania Amish country there is a town named Blue Ball. Another town is Intercourse, and the joke was that if you missed Intercourse, you wound up in Blue Ball,and then Bird in Hand, another real place. But if you didn’t miss it, you got to another real town, Paradise.

[Billthedrill]

I'm only here for the replies.

[Red Badger]

By the dashboard light?..............

[Lockbox]

New Title……. Power Plants cause Blue Balls to spread, Is it time for renewable energy?

[Burma Jones]

The title took me back to a painful memory of being at the beach with my 1st girlfriend, close to 40 years ago.

[Jonah Hex]

Mr. Bean worries....

[outofsalt]

"Yeah, blue balls when pressure builds up."

Cummy ache?

[COBOL2Java]

[Larry Lucido]

Tease!

[IamConservative]

I was in Galveston Tuesday. Weather was the cause of blue balls there. Water was quite warm of course.

[shotgun]

Or the beauty queen I was dating. You would have thought she was training for a prize fight and didn’t want to go weak in the legs during the pageant.

[shotgun]

Is that you Tulum?