¡Fibrilacion ventricular!
Seriously, how are we supposed to take old people seriously when they're always doing shit like this?
I do like the fact that the bird won this battle with the death of both of its human opponents. Maybe it was was one of those birds that have apparently been scaring toads to their explosive deaths in Australia. Do you think that's what it was?
UPDATE!
The mystery of the exploding toads has been solved. (Actually they couldn't figure it out and had to flip to the back of the book and get the answer from Encyclopedia Brown himself). Try the link again and scroll down to "UPDATE: Mystery solved," and try to tell me that Mother Nature isn't one demented hag.
posted by bastardface at 5:17:00 PM
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I think you have too much free time to read the news. I am envious.
Hundreds of toads have met an unexplained, explosive demise in Germany in recent days, it was reported on Saturday.
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 metre.
It is like "a science fiction film", according to Werner Smolnik of a nature protection society in the northern city of Hamburg, where the phenomenon of the exploding toad has been observed.
"You see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding," he said.
He said the bodies of the toads expanded to three-and-a-half times their normal size.
"I have never seen such a thing," said veterinarian Otto Horst.
So bad has the death toll been that the lake in the Altona district of Hamburg has been dubbed "the pond of death".
Access to it has been sealed off and every night a biologist visits it between 2:00am and 3:00am, 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.
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