Toad whacking day

[Neferti]

How big are these toads? I imagine them larger than the average little green frog. "Touching a toad will give you warts on your face." Can't even recall seeing a frog in the garden. Apart from being an imported PEST (obviously some male idea), what damage do they do the a suburban garden?

[Outlaw Yogi]

Australian Floods to Unlesh Feral Plague
http://www.earthweek.com/2011/ew110218/ew110218b.html

[Outlaw Yogi]

Cane toads linked to death of crocs
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian ... -of-crocs/

[Neferti]

Well, we just solved a couple of problems that even Mantra should consider "humane". Pay little aboriginal kids to catch cane toads and feed them to crocodiles. Gets rid of both pests at the same time. Might have to do something about "protection" for the little Abo kids though .... anyone have an idea or three?

[freediver]

You could try paying them to hand feed crocodiles.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Toad muster helps keep kids in school
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian ... in-school/

Northern Territory police say a toad mustering competition in two remote Arnhem Land communities has helped keep children out of trouble.

For the last month, 70 children have been toad hunting in a bid to fetch the highest number of toads and take out the top title.

In the final week, 444 toads were collected, bringing the entire tally up to 1,141.

Children could only enter the competition if they went to school every day.

The officer in charge at Bulman, Dominic Crea, says it has had a positive effect on the community, with elders and parents volunteering to supervise the groups.

"We tried to work with the school and there were two objectives at hand - one was to encourage their attendance at school so they'd be eligible for prizes," he said.

"[And] basically just from the kids approaching us and saying they were a little bored and didn't have anything to do in the community, [they] noticed there was an unusual amount of toads around."
Mr Crea says elders and parents also got on board, acting as supervisors and going out on toad patrols with the groups.

[harvey]

This should make a change for what some posters are usually whacking all day!

[Leftwinger]

Be fucking careful whacking cane toads!

I belted one with a pickhandle once (ok, I belted thousands when I was a kid and got away with it thousands of times) but just this once, I hit the venom glands on the back of the head in just the right way that it spurted up and I copped both eyes full. It felt like two eyes full of sand for about an hour.

[Jovial Monk]

Too much information!

[Sappho]

It's not too much information Monk... but I am glad you brought this thread to life... I'd missed it when first offered.
Makes me glad I'm a Melbournian though. I doubt I could do all that toad killing... which is necessary by the way.