In a story that will sound somewhat familiar to anyone unfortunate enough to have sat through the 2001 David Spade vehicle Joe Dirt, residents of Fazilpur Badli in India were somewhat perturbed when what is essentially a meteor made of human waste landed in their village.
As the BBC reports, the poop meteor – estimated to weigh a not-insignificant 10-12 kilos – landed with a “big thud” in the state of Haryana on Saturday. Vivek Kalia, a senior official from the nearby city of Gurgaon, told the BBC that several people believed it to be an “extra-terrestrial object“, taking samples of it back home as a keepsake:
Kalia said that it was most likely a big ol’ frozen ball of rude liquids (and some solids), but that a sample was being sent away to confirm.
Planes are not traditionally in the habit of just dropping giant, lethal-sized projectiles of poop over populated areas (they empty their tanks at airports, usually), but leakages can occur, whereupon they immediately freeze and plummet to the earth.
According to Britain‘s Civil Aviation Authority the phenomenon (known as ‘blue ice’ thanks to the chemicals used in plane toilets) happens about 25 times a year out of the 2.5 million flights that take place in UK airspace, so don’t get too paranoid about suddenly being flattened by a high-speed falling turdball.
