still LOL, this is funny.. those things pop like a balloon going off..

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: bueses <bueses@EARTHLINK.NET>
>Sent: Feb 16, 2006 3:08 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Shocking Video WITH VAN CONTENT (was: Re: shocking video clip              NVC)
>
>>
>>
>> <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)
>>
>> <The second segment is from "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" (1988).
>>
>> <It is a GREAT Movie, done in a semi-doco, dry Australian way.  It is
>>
>> 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