Forum:When have pokeballs interacted with things other than pokemon?

I was reading a 2013 discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemonconspiracies/comments/19pnap/why_cant_pokeballs_work_on_humans/?st=jwb4kcpq&sh=d3fd957e and a couple interesting claims were put forth:
 * in the episode: Primeape Goes Bananas, Ash caught a rice ball in a pokeball and was able to eat it
 * In an episode on pokemon (Sometime in the third generation) Ash and friends help a trainer find his runaway sudowoodo. While that trainer tries to call his sudowoodo back to the pokeball, it dodges the red energy, and Jesse from Team Rocket is painfully zapped.

I plan to find these episodes and check the claims. These seem like important instances if so. I would like to know of other instances like this, showing what can and can't be stored in pokeballs and the effects of being hit by the red retraction beam for non-owned pokemon.

It seems like the retraction beam works at a greater distance than when you try to capture them in the first place since you must throw the ball and hit them. talk2ty 20:46, May 30, 2019 (UTC)