Good Gawd! Hundreds of thousands of golf balls line the bed of the Loch Ness.

[Are_grits_groceries]

Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also estimated 300 million balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.

The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster -- were surprised to find hundreds of thousands of golf balls lining the bed of the loch.
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It was found that during decomposition, the golf balls dissolved to release a high quantity of heavy metals. Dangerous levels of zinc were found in the synthetic rubber filling used in solid core golf balls. When submerged in water, the zinc attached itself to the ground sediment and poisoned the surrounding flora and fauna.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/11/04/littering.golf.balls/index.html

A new fun fact. :sarcasm:

[YOY]

1. Take that Nessie ye wee beastie shite-gobbed git!

Ye didn't think ol' Angus would let ye have the last guffaw, did ye?

[Goblinmonger]

5. Thanks for the laugh n/t

[DJ13]

2. "I saw Nessie and lost my balls!"

[Gman2]

3. the asshole CEO of flour corp, hit balls into a sanctuary.

In Cameo Shores.

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Good way for some Scottish kid to make money though.

Take a swim in the Loch, dig up a bunch of balls and sell them.

It's the same with any body of water that's near a golf course, really. Use to grab some out of the local river on summer inner tubing trips.