# Rover turns red, rolls through Toledo Ohio **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rover-turns-red-rolls-through-toledo-ohio/728452 "2015-08-21T18:09:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rover-turns-red-rolls-through-toledo-ohio/728452/1 "2015-08-21T18:09:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Nothing gets the ball rolling like imagination unleashed. > > The RedBall Project, a traveling art installation by Kurt Perschke, is visiting Toledo, Ohio, at the moment. It’s meant to be a stationary exhibit, but for a brief moment on Wednesday evening that changed. > > Strong winds dislodged the 15-foot, 250-pound ball from its place in front of a jewelry store and sent it rolling down the street. > > A bystander captured the ball’s brief jaunt as it turned the corner from Madison Avenue onto St. Clair Street, grazing a stop sign and rolling over parked cars. Members of an impromptu “recovery team,” including museum staff, a waiter, and other passers-by, pursued the ball and quickly got ahold of it, according to The Toledo Blade. > **[Giant Red Ball Rolls Down Toledo Streets](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/red-ball-project-toledo_n_55d713dae4b00d8137eddeee?kvcommref=mostpopular)** > > Just having a ball with some runaway art. 250 pounds? No wonder everyone Rover rolled into got knocked out. > **[Rover (The Prisoner)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_(The_Prisoner))** > > Rover is a plot device from the 1967 British television programme The Prisoner, and was a crucial tool used to keep 'prisoners' from escaping the Village. It was depicted as a floating white balloon that could coerce, and, if necessary, incapacitate or kill recalcitrant inhabitants of the Village. It also had the ability to subdivide. Several aspects of the Rover device were left unexplained and to the imagination of the viewer. > The name "Rover" was only used once in the entire series (in the ... ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rover-turns-red-rolls-through-toledo-ohio/728452/2 "2015-08-21T20:48:15Z")
Who is Number 1? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rover-turns-red-rolls-through-toledo-ohio/728452/3 "2015-08-21T20:59:07Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > Who is Number 1? You are Number 6 You are, Number 6 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rover-turns-red-rolls-through-toledo-ohio/728452/4 "2015-08-21T21:00:19Z")
Red Rover, Red Rover Can Number 6 come over?