Sunday, March 19, 2006

Australians hunt down toxic cane toads

Residents in Australia's Northern Territory are staging a day of action to stop marauding cane toads.

They are being encouraged to hunt and destroy these toxic pests, which have spread in plague-like numbers across tropical Australia.

Federal MP Dave Tollner says that the toads deserve no mercy.

"I suggested that people should hit them with golf clubs or cricket bats or, you know, lumps of wood - whatever was at hand".

However, the Australian RSPCA recommends that they be smeared with haemorrhoid cream and then placed in a freezer.

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