No Loch Ness Monster, But Plenty Of Golf Balls

Thanks to reader Al for this CNN story on the Danish Golf Union discovering that it takes between 100 and 1,000 years for golf balls to decompose, and that an estimated 300 million are lost or discarded annually.

This was the most amazing part:

The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists -- who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster -- were surprised to find hundreds of thousands of golf balls lining the bed of the loch.

Apparently the Loch is considered a driving range by locals. Lovely. The video evidence: