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> <Date:    Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:44:01 +1000
> <From:    David Yates <dyates1@BIGPOND.NET.AU>
> <Subject: Re: Shocking Video WITH VAN CONTENT (was: Re: shocking video
> clip NVC)
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> <The second segment is from "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" (1988).
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> <It is a GREAT Movie, done in a semi-doco, dry Australian way.  It is
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> Very funny movie and definitely worth seeing. Brings back great (albeit
> foggy)
> memories of over 30 years ago doing exactly the same thing while
> travelling
> in Queensland with a mate in his 1600 Kombi.
> Cane toad killing was a sport even then and I recall one night after
> sharing a
> university cigarette he put the van down into a drainage ditch after
> being so
> determined to squash a particularly large toad he followed it right off
> the road.
>
> Kombi drivers are just being responsible and helping the
> environment...at least that
> was our story and we're sticking to it...;-)

I believe that your cane toads are the same as our cane toads in Hawaii
called "Bufo Marinus" or something to that effect. Those nasty buggers are
prodigious like yours and are poisonus when eaten by dogs,etc. We called
them "Bufos".  After a nice rain, etc. they would be all over the road like
yours & we would only run them over if we couldn't miss them in our split
buses.  They would dry out flat on the road & then  become "sail dogs" for
frisbee like throwing contests.

Tom-It's Friday in OZ I think