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The Week contest: Seaweed invasion

This week's question: The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a 5,000-mile-wide mass of thick, toxic fume-emitting brown seaweed, is expected to make beachgoing at Florida's Gulf Coast much less pleasant this spring. Come up with a tabloid headline about this foreign assault on the Sunshine State.

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Clothesline drone

RESULTS:

 THE WINNER: "Kelp Is on the Way!"

Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York

SECOND PLACE: "This Is Not Recreational Weed!"

Gary Evenson, McFarland, Wisconsin

THIRD PLACE: "Huge Stinking Mess Envelops Florida (Also, Seaweed)"

Saul Bronstein, Port St. Lucie, Florida

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Scum From Away"

John Hahn, Sterling, Illinois 

"Engulfed Coast"

Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts 

"Invasion of the Beach Body Snatchers"

Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

"Beach Blanket Stinko"

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"Florida Braces for Upgrade"

Wesley Warder, Alexandria, Virginia

"Nori'easter!"

Chris Kaimmer, Seattle, Washington

"Sludgehammered!"

Janet Oberfoell, Monticello, Iowa

"Mess Migration"

Janine Witte, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 

"Shock and Eeew"

John Bregoli, Weymouth. Massachusetts 

"There's No Need For Sargassum"

Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania 

"Wide Sargassum Siege"

Emily Nelson, Sandy, Utah

"Here Comes the Sludge"

Lisa Bloom, Pittsford, New York

"Spring Blech 2023"

Hank Java, Grantsburg, Wisconsin

"Marsh Attacks!"

Fred Meredith, Quinton, Virginia

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