Big Friggin' Toad

This might be a D_B, but I didn't see it.



Group finds toad the size of a small dog

DARWIN, Australia - An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog.

With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.

"It's huge, to put it mildly," he said. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male ... I would hate to meet his big sister."

Frogwatch, which is dedicated to wiping out a toxic toad species that has killed countless Australian animals, picked up the 15-inch-long cane toad during a raid on a pond outside the northern city of Darwin late Monday.

Cane toads were imported from South America during the 1930s in a failed attempt to control beetles on Australia's northern sugar cane plantations. The poisonous toads have proven fatal to Australia's delicate ecosystems, killing millions of native animals from snakes to the small crocodiles that eat them.

As part of its so-called "Toad Buster" project, Frogwatch conducts regular raids on local water holes, blinding the toads with bright lights then scooping them up by the dozen.

"We kill them with carbon dioxide gas, stockpile them in a big freezer and then put them through a liquid fertilizer process" that renders the toads nontoxic, Sawyer said.

"It turns out to be sensational fertilizer," he added.

 

I don't know what fascinates me more: The size of the toad, how its turned into non-toxic fertilizer or that John found it...

 

I spend a lot of time in the Outback. [/boots]

 

Looks like Steve Irwin reincarnated.

 

Wait, how the hell are toads toxic? Is that why you're supposed to lick their bellies to hallucinate?

 

It'll spread chills
all through your body
and you'll lose
all control
of your bladder
and your sphinkter
(not sure if sphinkter is spelled right)
thats your butthole

Cause, if you use toad
then I'm tellin you
you can kiss your life goodbye

Yeah when you use toad
it'll mess you up
It'll make your mama cry
thats no lie
you'll choke on your tongue and die

Gotta give it up
(give up the toad now)
its no joke
buddy give it up
(give up the toad now)
or you'll croak
buddy give it up
(give up the toad now)
and dont smoke
or you'll see
it hurts to pee

There'll be blood
gushing from you
everytime that you cough
and forget getting lucky
it falls off

So you better wise up
cause I'm tellin you
toad is one lando forbids

Gotta give it all up
or your gonna see
your whole life will hit the skids
and your kids
will be born without eyelids

Gotta give it up
(give up the toad now)
(thanks to you)
gotta give it up
just give it up
(give up the toad now)
(thanks to you)
give it up
(give up the toad now)

I'm no fool
Landos cool
YEAH!

 

FROG BASEBALL!!!!!

 

Talk about being in someone's head! All I could think about after seeing the toad was Beavis licking its belly.

 

Muahahaha that's what you get for posting about the two D-III colleges I almost attended out of high school!

 

Well played...

 

A distant relative of Hypno-toad, perhaps?