While yesterday the world was ogling over the iPhone 3 gigabyte smuggled body , some citizenry were just awe over smutty balls . 400,000 of them . Black testicle everywhere , bouncing , sway , cavorting , jubilantly hopping down the side of theIvanhoe Reservoirwith two objectives . First , to oppose bromate by stopping sunshine , which form this carcinogenic component mixing the chlorine and bromide in the water . secondly , to let me employ “ bouncy black balls ” in a headline .
It took 30 minutes to unlade all the balls from 190 elephantine bagful into the 10 - Akka , 58 - million congius water man-made lake that swear out 600,000 citizenry in downtown and South L.A.
The move to deploy the balls—3,000,000 will follow soon — comes afterLos AngelesDepartment of Water and Power officials registered eminent level of bromate between June and October 2007 . Although these were n’t severe enough to put the universe in peril or call Jack Bauer , the section think that it would better to be safe than sorry .
Head to theLos Angeles Times to find out the full video . [ Nelson EnvironmentalviaLA Times — additional photo byCurbed ]
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