Cane Toads

Cane Toads were imported to Australia to get rid of insects in the sugar cane fields. Dumb, very dumb idea. The Cane Toad, much like myself, enjoys the climate here and with a very efficient defence against any decent predator (the Cane Toad is poisonous) it thrives(from 102 released in 1935 to an estimated 500,000,000 today. There are waaaay too many Cane Toads and containing them is impossible. Moreover they are getting bigger every year.

Australians, being a fun-seeking sub species of the human race, have developed many games involving the Cane-Toad. The unfortunate Toads are good substitutes for balls and Toad golf, Toad cricket, Toad tossing are popular sports. See the movie to catch up on local Queensland lingo and Toad hazards, and yes the bloody Toad is called Baz!.

At night, you see them hop out of the Sugar Cane across the road. Of course most of them make it, but a select few don't Hop, hop, hop, h.. Splat, splat, splat, splat. I stopped counting after 20. My giant 4-bie wheels gave them no chance. It's like shooting fish in a barrel... without water... at point blank range... with a riot shotgun.
Remember the game Frogger? Well, it's the same but this time I'm the car.

Frog-splatting is not without danger. As they are getting bigger every year these animals can leave a nice dent in your car. A big frog that jumps just before you hit it at 110 kph will most certainly require you to clean the green goo of your car and have the dent fixed. Anyway I made quite a few 'Road side frog-pizzas', 'Green splat stains', 'Zie frog legs and splattered head' and ‘Pancake frogs’ and thus helped the local fauna a bit.