The Australians (bless their drought stricken hearts) imported toads to eat beetles in their sugar cane fields. Australian sugar cane grows taller in Australia than in their home habitat so the toads could not, did not eat the beetles but they found other things to eat and their numbers exploded. So, now the Australians are going to fight the toad hoards with a bounty, looks like about fifty cents per toad.Now we have seen other "festival" animal slaughtering events in popular culture including:
And Weird Al's "Weasel Stomping Day" (LINK)
I just find it all a bit weird. I just hope that when our alien overlords show up that they won't have "Fat Baptist Professor Whacking Day" (although I suspect that there are some ex-students who have their bats ready for that hoped for day).
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