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Sewage machine company warns about 'Finding Nemo' flushes

Riverside Press-Enterprise - 6/5

Kids be warned: Flushing your pet fish down the drain will not send it safely into the ocean as depicted in the movie "Finding Nemo."

A company that manufactures equipment used to process sewage issued a press release Thursday warning that drain pipes do lead to the ocean eventually but first the fluid goes through powerful machines that "shred solids into tiny particles."

"In truth, no one would ever find Nemo and the movie would be called 'Grinding Nemo,'" wrote the JWC Environmental company, which makes the trademarked "Muffin Monster" shredding pumps.

In the unlikely event Nemo survived the deadly machines, the company added, he would probably be killed by the chlorine disinfection.

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