Sea life mistaken for severed genitals on Auckland beach

You got to check to make sure those balls are real.

STUFF : ODDSTUFF - STORY : New Zealand's leading news and information website: "09 May 2005
By TOM FITZSIMONS

Only in Auckland . . . a beachside stroll turned into a morbid moment for one Northerner at the weekend when they thought they had found a severed human penis.

While most people search the sands for rare shells or stones, the unlucky walker was so distressed at the rare find that they phoned police.

The report: one set of severed male genitalia, including penis and testicles, lying on Eastern Beach near Manukau. However, it was a premature communication, as the savvy police officers determined when they arrived on the scene. The suspected male appendage was in fact a form of marine life."