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From: Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]>
> When I combine Jim's mention of a "methodological quagmire" with breaking
news across the US
> (see:
>
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/20/mary.underpass.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories),
> I think I'll just have to wonder about this phenomenon. As an aside, the
latest twist in the "Our Lady of the Underpass" story is that photographic
images show something different from what's visible to the naked eye, namely,
that Mary is shown embracing John Paul II.
highly Unlikely, but a good, Rationalist Explanation, MG.
my own feeling is that we're clearly Approaching the End Time, as this related
story proves.
c
ABC Online
Exploding toads baffle experts. 24/04/2005. ABC News Online
[This is the print version of story
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1352292.htm]
Last Update: Sunday, April 24, 2005. 9:26am (AEST)
German explosions: could they hold the answer to the cane toad problem?
(Reuters)
Exploding toads baffle experts
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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