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[[File:Toledo_giant_red_ball_incident_-_Alarmo-Gram.jpg|thumb|Alarmo-Gram NewsGlyph™ 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 ==

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File:Examples of the color red.jpg|link=Red (nonfiction)|April 22, 2015: New study of the Toledo giant red ball incident blames the [[Red (nonfiction)|color red]]: "Of all the colors of the visible spectrum, red is the most likely to spontaneously generate [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]], which can quickly manifest itself as breaking away and rolling down the street."

File:Giant Red Ball in Toledo Ohio.jpg|Still image from video of the giant red ball rolling down the street in Toledo, Ohio on August 19, 2015.

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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Alarmo-Gram]] 
* ''[[Crimson Droid]]''
* [[NewsGlyph]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[San Francisco sphere]]
* [[All we have to sphere is sphere itself]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

* [[Art (nonfiction)]]
* [[Red (nonfiction)]]

== External links ==

* [https://boingboing.net/2018/09/10/giant-red-ball-escapes-from-ar.html Giant red ball escapes from art installation in Ohio] @ Boing Boing
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shwjITmIXWA Video] @ YouTube
* [https://abcnews.go.com/US/giant-250-pound-red-ball-art-installation-knocked/story?id=33230712 Toledo: A Giant Red Ball Got Loose and Started Rolling Through Ohio City] @ ABC

=== Social media ===

* [https://x.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1825553195273494821 Post] @ Twitter (19 August 2024)
* [https://x.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1296099061435699200 Post] @ Twitter (19 August 2020)
* [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/when-youre-trying-to-stab-that-last-cherry-tomato-in-your-salad/142656/6?u=karl_jones Comment] @ Boing Boing


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