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The residents of Hamburg have been told to avoid one of the city's lakes after a spate of mysterious explosions in the area. It seems the lake's toads have been violently and spontaneously combusting.
Modern day soothsayers in Germany have been stumped by a strange phenomenon afflicting the amphibian community of the northern city of Hamburg of late.
While toads falling from the sky is a well-documented, although widely contested, natural phenomena which some believe preludes some kind of natural disaster, there seems to be no such explanation for the spate of exploding toads the city is experiencing.
Blood and guts catapulted into the air
Hundreds of toads have met a bizarre and sinister end in recent days. 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 meter.
Eye-witnesses to the spontaneously combusting toads have described the traumatic events as being like something from a science fiction film."
Werner Smolnik, a spokesperson for a nature protection society in the city is as flabbergasted as anyone. "You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding," he told AFP. He said the bodies of the toads expanded to three and a half times their normal size.
Residents warned away from "the pond of death"
"I have never seen such a thing," echoed veterinarian Otto Horst. So bad has the death toll been that the lake in Hamburg has been dubbed "the pond of death." Access to it has been sealed off and every night a biologist visits it between 2am and 3am, which appears to be peak time for batrachians to go bang.
Explanations include an unknown virus, a fungus that has infected the water, or crows, which in an echo of the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds, attack the toads, literally scaring them to death.
To see pictures and source
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1563663,00.html
So walk carfully and stay away from exploding phones and toads
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Posted: 2005-04-29 14:12:38
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Posted: 2005-04-29 14:17:31
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Warning sign at the lake: "Don't feed the toads with Nokias"
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Posted: 2005-04-29 15:05:38
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EastCoastStar Posts: > 500
have u read the article?!? weirdddd
that top explosion cant be form one toad!! theres no way!!
i wonder if this hurts the toads (not when they explode, but when they are actually living)
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Posted: 2005-04-29 15:12:22
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That quote was in new scientist this week. Funny, yet scary all at the same time :/
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Posted: 2005-04-29 16:45:09
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there's no way that this pic -
represents an exploding frog !!! It'd have to filled up with a lot and lot of explosive chemicals to explode like that, and besides according to this -
"......amphibians have perished after their bodies swelled to bursting point and their entrails were propelled for up to a meter...."
there were entrails left, if they exploded like the pic shown above, there would no entrails, only a smoking crater
This is really weird though, maybe the frogs have a really bad gas problem ?
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Posted: 2005-04-29 20:34:59
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There has only been one reported case of spontaneous human combustion in the world.
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Posted: 2005-04-29 20:53:00
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