Giant red ball breaks free from art installation, rolls down Ohio street striking cars in wild ride

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Holy Toledo!

A towering red ball ran over several parked cars as it barreled down an Ohio street in a modern art installation gone wrong.

Brooklyn artist Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project has been to more than 300 locations in 25 cities, but none had the performance art quality of Wednesday's breakaway moment fueled by a gust of wind and caught on video.

"The wind built up behind the ball and popped that sucker like a champagne cork!" Perschke wrote during a Reddit Ask Me Anything chat on Friday.

The 15-foot-tall, 250-pound inflated ball, sponsored by the Toledo Museum of Art, broke free from an alley installation and did its best pinball wizard, hung a left at a three-way intersection in downtown Toledo and then rolled over a row of parked cars.

RedBall slammed into a stop sign, dinging it during its brief terror ride through town.

"Ohio weather got the best of us," said Taylor, a museum staffer who made a mad dash after the ball when it broke loose. "The ball started rolling away, but no harm no foul."

The ball even rolled over a car with the driver still inside.

"The car it rolled against in the video, the driver came by the next day to say hello," Perschke wrote on Reddit. "Turns out his sister had seen it in Galway, and he has a pic from inside the car! That's fast reflexes. No cars were damaged in the making of this video ... it did whack the stop sign kinda hard." 

But there was no damage or citations, Perschke said.

The well-travelled RedBall wraps up its Toledo stay Sunday before heading to France.