2015 Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)

Still image from video of the giant red ball rolling down the street in Toledo, Ohio on August 19, 2015.

The Toledo giant red ball incident was an unplanned event which occurred 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

Still image from surveillance camera footage of a man being pursued by a large red ball; has been widely interpreted by conspiracy theorists as evidence of a secret prison known as the Village, occupied primarily by Prisoners, and guarded by Rovers. Until the emergence of this image emerged [when?], Rovers were thought to be exclusively white.
Prisoner and Red Rover.
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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."