The pond of death:
This short news article was recently brought to my attention and thought that some of you may get a bit of a laugh out of it!
Beware the pond of death! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4486247.stm)
Now I wish I had a pond like that nearby: it would make for some damn interesting viewing, and perhaps some sick and twisted drinking games!
That's kind of sad but it is a little funny in a dark sense, just as long as the type that is exploding don't go extinct. I'm wondering what's causing it.
That's too bad. I'm with Dave though--what the hell could do something like that?
Thats bizarre..wonder what it is/
Germany has exploding toads? I bet Poland is getting nervous.
It must be something they ate. Perhaps genetically modified plants.
I read this a few days ago. It's very strange.
Originally the researchers thought that if there was no virus causing the problem then something might be scaring the toads and causing them to puff up until POP!
I think that's actually been ruled out now. They have pretty much no clue as to what's causing the toads to pop.
It seems that the story has become world news now. I even heard it on the local redneck radio station this morning.
From what I read in Der Spiegel (a very serious German magazine, like Time or Newsweek, only more serious), it is caused by crows!
Apparently, the birds like to eat the livers of the toads. Only, they don't eat the whole toad, they simply pick out the liver, leaving the toad to hop along. This causes no undue problems to the animal. Then comes the mating season, and the toads start blowing themselves up as per usual. Except that in the liverless toads, various internal membranes have been punctured and the whole animal gets full of air. POP!
I'm not making this up, honestly.
I doubt that the toads could live long without their livers.
It's obviously some mad scientist working on perfecting his means of world domination through the use of toads.
I heard that these toads ate horse-s**t. Bacterias in it produce gases that make toads blow up.
Problem is, why do toads eat horse-s**t? Ever eard about horse-s**t-eating toads???
Maybe they injest it by eathing the flies who have been on the dookie
"It's obviously some mad scientist working on perfecting his means of world domination through the use of toads."
That's absolutely the most ridiculous statement I've ever seen. Who in their right mind would beleive that? It is without a doubt inter-dimensional aliens that happen to have a portal in the pond. If a toad is nearby when they cross through the dimensions, it causes a back-fire in the time-space field thus causing the toads to pop. God, any dummy could figure that out...
Perhaps it´s a wonder! A plain wonder!
In the bible it rained toads and now they´re just exploding.
The End is near!
I think the toad rain phenomenon first saw print in the works of Charles Fort.
I'm picturing a pimply adolescent version of Deiter from Sprockets feeding them Alka-Seltzer.
Has anyone observed this happening? Have they checked for tiny baby aliens?
Why just toads, and nothing else?
I saw a movie once about cockroaches that set people on fire and they ultimately died off because they came from very deep within the earth and could not handle the low air pressure on the surface. In the end their guts exploded outward.
So, frogs from the center of the Earth?
Ok a co worker told me that frogs can't pass gas. Maybe something in the pond is giving them gas and they can't expel it .
Well, the explanation comes a certain Frank Mutschmann. I looked him up on Google, and he is renowned specialist in diseases of amphibians. I can't imagine they hop about for long without their liver. On the other hand, those who die without a bang presumabley go unnoticed.
That being said, I still think it is a Pentagon experiment gone awry. Perhaps the CIA tried to develop a means against suicide bombers and some of the test animals escaped.
Either that or a leakage in an interdimensional portal.
"Either that or a leakage in an interdimensional portal."
AH! See! That's what I'm getting at...those damn inter-dimensional portals will do it to you every time!
Could it be little toad-shaped blobs of antimatter?
Maybe these frogs have constipation. They can´t neither fart nor belch so they explode. poor toadies! schnief
LOL.
Of course, that's the story they want you to believe.
I'm thinking a fertile toad was confused and got it on with a hand granade.
TOAD SHRAPNEL!
But, now did the horney toad pull the grenades pin?...wait...don't go there....
How do the crows get the toads to open their mouths so they can snatch their liver out? Do they have surgeon crows that do a quick operation or maybe they stick their feathers in their mouths to get them to cough them up? I would really like to know how it happens.
According to the German expert, the crows pierce the side of the toads with great accuracy and yank out the liver. This doesn't seem to bother the toads too much, for some reason.
Maybe they ate pop rocks and then drank Coke. That's what happened to Mikey you know. From the cereal commercials.
Dammit...didn't Mikey die from eating Wonder Bread?
If only we could get the dreaded canetoads here in Australia to do that....
And would love to see Peter Jackson return to his roots, doing the special effects for Canetoads 2 : The Exploding.
Now, where did I put that barrel of blood?
I quite agree Rombles. Canetoads suck, and if I was in Queensland I would take great satisfaction in watching them go boom...
OWWW1
....I was the one. The end was on it's way, that was a sure thing by now. We all knew it and it was nothing to get over at this point since the oblivious didn't care and those of us that were aware...well, we didn't care either. In fact, it really was to be embraced since we could finally see that this would all be put to rest after all these years.
"The frog, he sees...touch it." she said to me.
I leaned over, slightly uneasy at what I would experience.
"Pick up the frog, he sees, he knows." she said a little more forcefully this time. I was still uneasy as I have heard these stories before and was reluctant to experience the pain that goes along with seeing this way. Pain was nothing new to me but this kind of pain, from what I've heard, was unlike anything else you could imagine.
"Touch the frog! Pick it up now!" she grabbed my arm and went to hit me.
"You may be able to see without the frog and that's why you're here but me, I never asked for any of this." I said as calmly as I could.
"These people needed someone and you are here, it's up to you now...please...you can end it now." she replied to me now with a gentle tone. She was right, the Seer was always right, that's why she was here and why we were able to get this far.
I grabbed that frog and picked him up expecting Hellfire to run through my mind but there was nothing but peace.
She asked me what I saw.
"Pain, suffering..." I saw it but didn't feel it, something was wrong, "I feel peace but I see pain and suffering."
It was the frog, he was helping me see it was time to go. He started to inflate slowly. Expanding like he was going to burst. I quickly put him down and backed away.
Post Edited (05-06-05 12:59)