You are to kill toxic cane toads in Australia. Your choices are...

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...beating them with golf clubs or sticking them in a freezer -- or sending in the army.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 June 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41455000/jpg/_41455566_toadap203b.jpg

so cute!

― lavendra diamondheart (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

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― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Also, I bet the frogs could pwn the Aussie Army.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

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― Bucky Fullminster (vincent spano), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

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― Shadow of the Waxwing (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 June 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

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― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 18 June 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

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― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 18 June 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

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― Shadow of the Waxwing (noodle vague), Sunday, 18 June 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

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― Bucky Fullminster (vincent spano), Sunday, 18 June 2006 19:19 (twenty years ago)

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― candice (divifold), Sunday, 18 June 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Cane toad skins act as a powerful hallucinogenic if you lick them.

Cane Toads were introduced to Australia to eat French's Cane Beetle and the Greyback Cane Beetle. At that time, some naturalists and scientists warned of the dangers of liberating Cane Toads in Australia. The protesters included a former New South Wales Government Entomologist, W W Froggatt.

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Sunday, 18 June 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_toad

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Sunday, 18 June 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Northern Territories. Well done, BBC, fact-checking alive and well in Englands.

It's dangerous to blat them with a club. Venom can splatter. But I wouldn't put one in my freezer. It'd stink.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 18 June 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

The state government has written to its federal counterpart in Canberra, asking for permission to use troops as a first line of defence.

I am trying to picture how this is going to work, exactly. "Halt or I'll shoot" isn't really going to stop some frogs.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 18 June 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

we should've sent a fleet of these into iraq!

― indie disco dancer, sweet romancer (haitch), Sunday, 18 June 2006 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Have you seen that terrible Jimeoin movie The Craic? They were golf-whacking cane toads all over the shop in that. Ugh. Hideous beasties.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 18 June 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

I'd sooner eradicate Jimeoin than cane toads.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 19 June 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Heh.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 19 June 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

OMG OMG those comments at the end of the article!!

Why can't anyone ever think of peace, love, unity, and respect, man?

Just be firm but be cool. Go up to the toads and say "Hey! Toads!... there's a lot of you guys... and you should, you know, like, just chill out, man... here are some dead insects *throws them far far away back to Darwin*... now, like, go back and make your home a great place for awesome toads like you."

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:47 (twenty years ago)

PERTH WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER THE CANE TOAD APOCALPYSE

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

I would like a cane toad suit. Better than that, I would lick a cane toad suit.

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Monday, 19 June 2006 06:53 (twenty years ago)

They're cute when they're little.

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:18 (twenty years ago)

it's all fun and games until lots of our native species get extinguished

― gem (trisk), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Yer.

Daft bugger who imported cane toads to kill cane beetles that live up the top of cane stalks and so can't physically be reached by the cane toads because they can't jump six feet in the air FTL.

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:28 (twenty years ago)

So, are you saying I WASN'T supposed to grab that toad from the Koala Park sanctuary and let it free?

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:29 (twenty years ago)

You WHAT

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:30 (twenty years ago)

And I'd do it again.

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:36 (twenty years ago)

I was passed by the first time by that West Pennant Hills bus driver, so I figured a practical joke involving a cane toad would be appropriate to teach W. Pennant Hills public transit a good lesson. And then, the next thing you know, well, the little fucker amphibian was nowhere to be found... she looked like she was going to give birth to a toad army, too... poor thing.

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:38 (twenty years ago)

On her way to Sydney no doubt. Well that's GREAT.

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh, like you didn't want to get rid of those obnoxious gulls, magpies, and ibises anyway. pfft. :p

― aDOring NUTbians (donut), Monday, 19 June 2006 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Ibises - they truly are the spawn of hell. Straight out of Bosch.

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Monday, 19 June 2006 08:22 (twenty years ago)

OMG, fuck ibises!!!!! I was TRAUMATIZED by an ibis stealing my lunch on a primary school excursion!

― indie disco dancer, sweet romancer (haitch), Monday, 19 June 2006 09:43 (twenty years ago)

Let's have a thread about Ibises. We used to call them Clawpokes.

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Monday, 19 June 2006 10:02 (twenty years ago)

So which came first, the toad epidemic or the Simpsons episode about a toad epidemic?

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 19 June 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Bullfrogs are pretty bad, too. I dug a fishpond in our yard and put tadpoles in it. Some developed into green frogs, some into bullfrogs. The bullfrogs then ate all the green frogs. And they didn't stop there. They ate all the goldfish, too. And every spring hundreds of bullfrog tadpoles hatch out but never grow to adulthood because the adults EAT ALL THEIR BABIES. Maybe it's for the best.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:16 (twenty years ago)

I love the conceit of wildlife management.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 19 June 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

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