I’ll Stick With The Foster’s
Australians have figured out what to do with the plethora of unwanted cane toads that have been sweeping across Australia at an alarming rate. Released there in 1935 in an attempt to control sugar cane beetles, the poisonous toads have become killing machines for native animals. So the Australians now have a new way to deal with them.
Put them up in a hotel until they have enough, then juice them. As in squeeze them for juice.
CANE toad containers known as Detention Centres will be kept on Top End military bases to house the warty pests before they are gassed and turned to fertilizer
Australia's defence force became the latest ally in the fight against the cane toad after toad collectors – belonging to the group Toadbusters – discovered they were hiding out on military land.
The army has ordered two Detention Centres – complete with insulation, a water system and a solar panel to power a light that attracts bugs at night – to be stationed at Robertson Barracks.
The temporary homes will be used to contain the cane toads until they are collected weekly by local warriors from Frogwatch.
"Once we have collected them from the Detention Centres we then gas them using carbon dioxide, freeze them and then when we have enough for a batch turn them into Frog Juice," said Frogwatch co-oordinator Graeme Sawyer.
And people think we're odd around here……
(Actually frog juice is apparently a good fertilizer for certain plants).
By Quilly Mammoth, Tuesday, 16 January , 2007 @ 6:13 pm
How long until PETA makes the comparison between this and GitMo?