Environmentalists have urged Robert Musumeci to refrain from swimming in the sea, after the lawyer and architect left a thick trail of slime everywhere he bathed.
The foul-smelling, mucus-like matter was first spotted by beachgoers in Qawra, with further sightings at Golden Bay and St Thomas Bay. Aside from rendering the beaches unswimmable, it also clogged fishermen’s nets and the motors of their boats.
Marine biologist Alan Deidun told Bis-Serjetà he initially suspected fish farms or a bloom of algae to be the culprit.
“But upon going to Golden Bay to investigate, I noticed the trail of sludge continued up onto the beach and into the car park, so I followed it all the way to a villa in Siggiewi [where Musumeci lives].”
Deidun urged Musumeci to remain on land from now on.
“That level of disgusting slime may be acceptable in legal and political circles, but if he’s allowed to continue secreting it into the sea, it’ll wreak havoc on marine life and the fishing industry. I’m sure he has a pool, so he can clog that up to his heart’s content.”
Musumeci has also come under fire for shedding his skin in public.
When contacted for a comment, the lawchitect admitted his body exuded the slime, but refused to stop going to the beach.
“Last time I checked, it isn’t illegal to discharge your naturally occurring mucus into the sea or crawl out of your old layer of skin in front of other people, so I will carry on doing both those things, because as everyone knows, if something is legal, then it isn’t harmful. If you try and stop me, it’s a breach of my reptil… I mean human rights,” he said, before swallowing a mouse whole.
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