# What's the nastiest thing you could find in a ball pool? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 2, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698 "2014-03-02T21:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/1 "2014-03-02T21:15:50Z")
Aside from maybe crocodiles, cockroaches, snakes or spiders, what’s the nastiest and possibly even the grossest thing you could find amonst the balls in a ball pool at a soft play area? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/2 "2014-03-02T21:30:28Z")
your best friend’s head. ---
**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/3 "2014-03-02T21:34:08Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > your best friend’s head. Yikes. :eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/4 "2014-03-02T21:44:34Z")
Poop. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/5 "2014-03-02T21:44:40Z")
If it was still attached to your best friend, that might not be nasty at all, therefore, I suggest: Your best friend’s head, three months after they buried his headless body. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/6 "2014-03-02T21:45:12Z")
Okaaay, somebody’s not invited to Little Jimmy’s next birthday party. I’d say for more common finds a general dead animal - squirrel, bird, etc. Well advanced in decomposition. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/7 "2014-03-02T21:45:27Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > your best friend’s head. Half of your best friend’s head. With poop in it. ---
**Author:** ![Inna\_Minnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Inna\_Minnit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inna_Minnit)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/8 "2014-03-02T21:53:56Z")
Spooge. That would be pretty nasty. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/9 "2014-03-02T22:03:50Z")
Are we talking theoretically as in trying to horrify each other, or are we talking realistically, like what your child is likely to encounter? For the second, I’d think a lot of mucus, probably some feces, and probably assorted half-eaten food that would gradually work its way to the top or bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/10 "2014-03-02T22:06:18Z")
> [@Inna\_Minnit](#): > > Spooge. That would be pretty nasty. Came in to say this exact thing. Spooge wins out as probably the nastiest thing in my mind. Poop? Hell, I half expect there to be some sort of fecal bacteria/material in those things. But if a kid came up wearing a schmear of jism? I don’t know what I’d do. ---
**Author:** ![compositejoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/compositejoe/32/7232_2.png) [@compositejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/compositejoe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/11 "2014-03-02T22:35:29Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Are we talking theoretically as in trying to horrify each other, or are we talking realistically, like what your child is likely to encounter? > > For the second, I’d think a lot of mucus, probably some feces, and probably assorted half-eaten food that would gradually work its way to the top or bottom. A bit of both. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/12 "2014-03-02T23:46:44Z")
Body parts. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/13 "2014-03-02T23:50:20Z")
The discarded remains of a child’s innocence. Or poop. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/14 "2014-03-03T00:11:13Z")
The assistant manager. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/15 "2014-03-03T00:13:34Z")
A used condom, surely. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/16 "2014-03-03T00:26:46Z")
A child who died of the [Marburg virus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg_virus_disease#Signs_and_symptoms), two days earlier, but who’d escaped notice because examination revealed they’d been cordectomied and handcuffed to cinder blocks dropped at the bottom of the pit? [(Ta-da.)](http://memeguy.com/photos/images/just-the-m-atomic-cannon-shooting-a-nuclear-artillery-shell-no-fake-25491.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/17 "2014-03-03T00:32:19Z")
Justin Bieber. Nah, just kidding. I think it would be the little kid who tagged along with his older brother to a big birthday party last week and no one noticed he didn’t leave because his divorced parents each thought the other one had him and the brother was just glad not to have to share the bedroom for a few nights. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/18 "2014-03-03T00:39:27Z")
A discarded disposable nappy (diaper) that’s become fly-blown. Yer’ welcome! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/19 "2014-03-03T00:41:37Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > A discarded disposable nappy (diaper) that’s become fly-blown. With a couple of balls in it? ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698/20 "2014-03-03T00:49:57Z")
Used pad or tampon. Dirty needle. Ball pits gross me out. Who knows what’s under there? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-nastiest-thing-you-could-find-in-a-ball-pool/682698.md?page=2)