What happens when 28,000 rubber duckies are set free in the ocean?

in #story6 years ago

Over three quaters of the earth's surface is covered with ocean and you can just imagine all the things that are out there floating in it. But sometimes you dont have to imagine, because those things magically wash up onto our shores. Now, i have never taken a barefoot stroll and stumbled upon or over any of these things, because these are the strangest things ever to wash up on the shores.



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Lets start up with rubber duckies. In 1992, a cargo ship leaving Hong Kong headed for the U.S accidentally dropped 28,000 rubber duckies into the Pacific Ocean, and they all had sunglasses. Over the next 15 years, these rubber duckies were spotted all over the world. Now, i'm talking about Hawaii, Alaska, South America, Scotland, even some rubber duckies frozen in arctic ice.


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Dang, they get around man. I dint know they were migratory birds. But you know what it is? They are not propelling themselves, they're actually being moved by the ocean currents, and incidentally they told us a lot about ocean currents. Not me personally but us, science people. Scientists learned a lot about ocean currents and how long it takes things to go places, and 2,000 of them are still out there rotating in a circle in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, that huge trash patch out there. Thank you very much, people of the world. Recycle, guys. Please do.



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Forget 28,000 rubber duckies when you can have one eight foot tall Lego man. I dont think that is the standard issue, i've been to the Lego store before, they aint eight foot tall. In 2007, a giant eight foot tall Lego man washed up on the shores of Zandvoort, Netherlands.

This thing is huge. Since then, six more have washed up on shores all around the world, from England, including Florida and Japan. I thought Legoland might have been hit with a tidal wave or something, but no, that is not what happened. What happened was it was an art installation, a floating art installation from Ego Leonard.


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This is what he said. He said, "You can find meaning in the text 'no real than you are' by asking yourself, is you presence in this life as real as i am in yours?"


August 2007, a girl is walking along the beach of Jedediah Island in British Columbia and she picks up a size 12 Adidas shoe. Score!! Free shoe!! But wait, theres more. There is actually a man's foot, a human foot inside of the shoe. You may think, what are the chances you find a foot inside a shoe at the shore? Well, the chances apparently are pretty high in the Pacific northwest, because since 2007, a shoe with a foot in it has been found almost every year, and a total of 16 shoe with feet have been found.

Sadly, they have been able to trace these feet back to people, and almost all of these people were dealing with mental issues and probably threw them selves off bridges. Over time, the appendages come apart and the feet eventually disarticulate and they float because of the shoe,and the sock and the shoe protect the foot. That is the gory, scientific truth.


Lets move on from the goryness to this next one. In 2012, Gino Covacci was taking his morning barefoot stroll on Pompano Beach, Florida. When he noticed something weird in the sand, a huge eyeball as big as a softball. It is not fake and it is not from the Legoman. He walks up to it and he does what any normal man named Gino would do, he kicks it. I think he was making sure it wasn't alive, and then he did the next thing that any man named Gino would do, he threw it in a plastic bag, took it home and put it in his fridge.


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He posted it on the internet, and the internet went crazy conjecturing about what this is. So do you think this is the eye of a giant squid, a humongous sea turtle, or remain of Mike Wazowski from Monster Inc. If you guys guess any of those then you're wrong, its just a swordfish.

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