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Rugby Ball Lost on UK Beach Floats 500 Miles to Denmark
TYNE AND WEAR, ENGLAND, JUL 23 – A rugby ball placed at a beach by Rockcliff Rugby Club traveled an estimated 750 km before being found by a German family who contacted the club about the discovery.
- While fishing off Lønstrup, a German family saw the ball drifting in the water and found it washed up, after it drifted roughly 470 miles across the North Sea.
- Two young members, Benjamin and Alexander, added used balls hoping to encourage play, as Rockcliff Rugby Club donated used balls to a communal toy box at Longsands Beach on June 15.
- The ball drifted approximately 750 km before washing up in Denmark, Bernd Terbeek said, adding `My son Hauke saw it drifting in the waves and I picked it up`.
- The club has formed a new supporters club in Germany, and it invited the Terbeek family to a home game.
- Finders agreed to keep the ball as a memento and play with it before preserving it, and Bernd Terbeek said `For sure we will check the activities of the Rockcliff Rugby Club`.
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Members of the Rockcliff Rugby Club in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside do a great deal to promote rugby union but received very surprising news from Denmark. In June of this year, as part of a p.r. exercise, they arranged for two of their younger members, Benjamin and Alexander to add a number of used training balls to a toy chest at Longsands Beach. Each ball had the slogan ‘Have fun playing… Source
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