2015 Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)

Still image from video of the giant red ball rolling down the street in Toledo, Ohio.

The Toledo giant red ball incident was an unplanned event which occured on the evening of August 19, 2015 in Toledo, Ohio, when a giant red ball which was part of an art installation broke loose and rolled away.

In the News

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  April 22, 2015: New study of the Toledo giant red ball incident blames the color red: "Of all the colors of the visible spectrum, red is the most likely to spontaneously generate artificial intelligence, which can quickly manifest itself as breaking away and rolling down the street."

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Art (nonfiction)
• Red (nonfiction)

External links:

• Giant red ball escapes from art installation in Ohio @ Boing Boing
• Video @ YouTube
• Toledo: A Giant Red Ball Got Loose and Started Rolling Through Ohio City @ ABC
• Comment @ Boing Boing