The Confessional

[monkeyfrog]

He he. In Tampa several years ago [ maybe still today too] kids [teens mostly] would catch toads in the drainage/retention ponds that are in most every subdivision, [ except in the realestate world they are called lakes , sigh] A certain imported toad- marine toad secretes a milky substance from right behind each eye when you irritate the area or toad in general. Well those darn teens would then lick the toad ! [ insert own joke here ]. Turns out that the toads packed a whallop . One kid at a reptile show I was attending told me he was driving home after licking his toad and about 5 minutes later the bridge he was driving over appeared to meld with the ocean . He stopped the car in the middle of the bridge and waited for help. I think in Miami I read that kids on the weekend nights would stop and pick up toads on the side of the road and lick them- I think several [teens] ending up getting hit by traffic- the toads no doubt survived to tell future generations .