Get Your Whacking Sticks Out: Australian MP Proposes National Cane Toad Killin’ Day

I remember watching a video about Australia’s Cane Toad scourge 17 years ago back in 8th grade science class (Great FSM does that make me feel old) and thinking “Australia is screwed, how do you fight that?”. My easy prediction is proving to be pretty spot on- Australia is screwed and getting screweder by the day. Cane Toads are taking over the country.

These large and quick growing voracious monster toads come with the added bonus of being poisonous, killing just about anything that eats it, even while they are in tadpole form. They’re fanning out across the country after being introduced back in the 30’s by farmers looking to take out grub worms and they are eating and killing everything in their path.

An Australian MP, Shane Knuth of Queensland, is now proposing to create a national Cane Toad Whacking Day (OK, so they are calling it Toad Day Out) where people would be encouraged to unleash holy hell upon their local cane toad population. A toad pogrom if you will.

The great thing is that they are getting the kids involved, giving them a good excuse to go outside and blow up, beat down, step on, cut through, and burn up toads. In my day doing that would get me yelled at and grounded- it’s about to become a national freaking holiday in Australia. God Save the Queen.

Link [Telegraph UK]