Mystery of German exploding toads

[Colorado Blue]

Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding.

Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point.

The toads' entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2ft), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4486247.stm

The site - which has been dubbed "the pond of death" - has been closed to the public.


Oh, this is all we need. A Biblical plague yet!

[evlbstrd]

1. You can bet it'll come up. n/t

[lovuian]

2. Oh Wow how horrible something toxic!!!

Not good to see that!!!

[rooboy]

3. This was eerily foretold in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"...

:)

[sasquatch]

4. You sure it isn't GWB himself just sticking firecrackers up their asses

Maybe this is God telling people that he disapproves of Ratzinger?

[aquart]

5. And George was nowhere near them?

Strange.

[knowbody0]

6. man oh man

if you were to believe in omens...........

[chalky]

7. Remember last summer when the cicadas invaded?

Here in Texas we call them locusts. My mom turned to me one evening after watching the umpteenth story about them and said, "Ummm...am I crazy, or are they really telling us that a plague of locusts has descended on Washington, DC?"

[0rganism]

8. Suicide Bomber Toads!

That's gotta be somewhere on the list of "things we don't need right now".

[montana_hazeleyes]

10. I hate to laugh

at the poor little creatures misfortune but that was funny!

[7th_Sephiroth]

9. hmmmm RatBurger gets crowned pope

the verry next day toads start to blow up, and no GWB and a hand-full of M-80's in sight >.> <.< awfully strange coincidence to me

[Journeyman]

11. Let's hope *this one* doesn't jump species! . . .

The subways are messy enough as it is.

[Kellanved]

12. *yawn* British Reporting at its best

Not only is the story a few days old, but it has been established that the toads are dying from attacks by crows and other birds. Albeit not in the "Thousands", but in the hundreds.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

13. link?

>it has been established that the toads are dying from attacks by crows
>and other birds

Got a link? I'm still not convinced that this isn't the apocalypse.

[Colorado Blue]

14. We should write and ask the Pope:)

Maybe he will know what's up with this, since GWB didn't do it, as he is supposedly in a bunker hiding from an airplane.

Meanwhile I feel sorry for the little toads:(