Exploding toads baffle experts

[Ernesto]

Hundreds of toads have met an unexplained, explosive demise in Germany in recent days, it was reported on Saturday.
According to reports from animal welfare workers and veterinarians as many as a thousand of the amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a metre.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1352292.htm

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. hmmmm

Ratburger wasent in town then, but then again maybe its a message from god

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. DRUDGE EXCLUSIVE - VIRGIN MARY SEEN IN EXPLODING TOAD ENTRAILS! !! !!!!!

Developing...

[Extend a Hand]

8. LOL

I needed a giggle :rofl:

[salvorhardin]

2. No pictures!

Damn, I went to the link and all I saw was a plain old unexploded toad.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Exploding... toads.

At least it isn't exploding skunks.

[BeHereNow]

5. Okay...THAT is FREAKY!

Darpa testing a new electronic microwave toy?
Nothing would surprise me these dayz.
BHN

[TheFarseer]

6. why can't this happen to republicans instead?

[Lisa]

7. Bush hasn't been there recently, has he?

Just wondering. (Allusion to the "blowing up frogs" incident -- I don't know if he knows the difference between amphibian species.)


Almost sounds like it's some kind of infection (rapid decay and production of gases?).

[BrklynLiberal]

10. heh heh heh my thought as well....remembering his childhood.

[AlmightyTallest]

9. End of Days!

I do believe rain of toads is supposed to be a sign of the Apocalypse, but a rain of toad entrails? Do you think if all of the Repubs are raptured the Dems will reclaim the government? ;)

[DulceDecorum]

11. If memory serves

Herod Antipas and Oscar Wilde
both had bellies which exploded around the time of death.

They say that frogs are the first to show signs of environmental distress, rather like canaries in a mine.

[roguevalley]

12. this is very, very sad. poor things.

[burn the bush]

13. I bet they've been drinking coke and can't burp. Isn't that how rat poiso

poison works; by causing them to bloat but because they don't belch,they explode more or less?

[DulceDecorum]

14. With or without

lime?

[seemslikeadream]

15. "With or without"?

:hi:

[DulceDecorum]

18. They shoulda stuck to

[seemslikeadream]

21. I hope they're not hungry...

[Donailin]

16. German Pope named Ratzinger, Exploding Toads and Concrete Virgin Mary

under a bridge. The connection is obvious: six more weeks of winter.

[ohio_liberal]

20. So that's it!

It started snowing here just days, days I tell you, after that cement Virgin Mary stain showed up.

[Donailin]

22. Let us pray.

dominusvobiscummaneanoooooooooo.

[MasonJar]

17. Has W been there recently. Exploding helpless frogs is one of

his specialties.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Didn't Bush blow up frogs as a kid?

http://www.all-creatures.org/aip/nl-3nov2000-frogs.html

Maybe there's a connection here!