‘Floating gold’ washing up on shore in UK – IOTW Report

‘Floating gold’ washing up on shore in UK

GBN: A mysterious floating gold object has been located in Wales leading to widespread curiosity as to what it actually is.

A man was out walking his dog near Trearddur Bay in Wales on Boxing Day when he made the discovery. He was quick to take to Twitter to see if anyone could help him identify the strange object.

Sharing an image John Carmichael tweeted: “No idea what this is washed up on Porth-y-post beach this morning.. but the dog ran straight to it and rubbed herself on it leaving her bright orange! Dog walkers beware!”
Other users debated what the gold object could be while for others it set off alarm bells.
Many urged the man to immediately get his dog checked out the toxins from the object could be deadly to her. MORE

9 Comments on ‘Floating gold’ washing up on shore in UK

  1. At first glance, rigid polyester foam comes to mind.

    Note to “finders”: photos at multiple angles, prod it or pick it up to get density solid-ness of object.

    Note to OMG crowd: even if it had a coating of diesel fuel, you can’t get much more benign than that so, “DON’T PANIC” and stop trying to spread panic ya’morons.

    (add ‘smell’ to Finders’ instruction)

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  2. DArn. And here I thought the beach walker might have found a chunk of whale ambergris ($$$$). Too bad.

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