All I’ve got to say is “Ouch.”
Oh yeah, and if you launch a frog from a bungee-pult you can really see that they’re remarkably aerodynamic animals.
Frogs 1, Bubba 0.
Good thing he was smart enough to get into college. Just think what trouble he’d be in if’n he wuz stoo-pid.
Oh. He could have shot a frog down his pants.
I’ll probably get a huge ration of shit for this, but when I was about 8, a couple of friends and I constructed a big slingshot using a forked tree branch stuck in the ground and a bicycle inner tube.
After getting bored with shooting rocks and dirt clods, we got the bright idea of shooting a toad, which were abundant at the time (in the spring, after a rainy night). Hey, it was funny at the time. After that hoot, we thought it would be even funnier to hurl a FLAMING toad with it. So, I got some Cox Glo-fuel (remember Cox airplanes?), poured it on the hapless toad and lit it just before letting it fly.
Wow! There was a wicked blue flame trail behind the toad as it hurtled about 60 yds. through the air…right into this old lady’s garden, still on fire. It was still crawling and on fire when the old lady came outside and asked us what we were doing. Then she saw the frog on fire, ran over and poured her iced tea on it to put it out, then called our moms. So I got busted big time for being cruel to animals. I didn’t turn out to be a serial killer, at least…
I told a friend about this and it bummed her out. She’s one of those people who feel sypathy for the stupid. I tried to feel something for him, but just couldn’t do it.
:mad: I am the Great Toad, and I shall (eventually) have my vengeance on all who abuse my smaller brethren!
Poor little toads…
** The mom said -**
And she should know , thats how her dear old pappy went.
May I remind you people that during these dire times of war, the proper term for these animals is freedom toads?
Bumper sticker: Potato guns don’t blind people - Frogs do!
I bet an investigation would find that this frog was a single, male, muslim extremist frog between the ages of 19-40 (once you do the human-frog year conversion).
I have no sympathy at all. Well, maybe for the toad.
What is this idiot going to say when people ask him how he lost his eyesight? “I got shot with a frog.”
That just speaks volumes to his competance.
I admit to doing some dumb things when I was young - I mean like 13 - but damn. A 17-freakin’-year-old didn’t know better not to stick his face in front of a projectile weapon?
Since he’s blind, I think I would start buying all sorts of stuff with a frog motif. He’ll never know!
[shakes head]
I feel sorry for him…the way I feel sorry for the village idiot. It is pathetic beyond words.
It’s worse than that: “I shot myself with a frog.”
That’s gotta look good on the resume.
Or an arsonist, right? Right?
Depends on your definition of arsonist…
j/k
I’ve been sitting here all day trying to compose a worthwhile response to this.
Ideally, such a response would include references to amphibious assaults, Poison Arrow Frogs, and high-velocity armor-piercing freedom toads. It possibly should also to include a discussion of the comparative intelligence of amphibians and this dumb kid.
Unfortunately, I’ve got nothing.
I’m picturing the poor guy’s future. “Oh, dear, how did you lose your eyesight?” “Ah done shot mahsef wid a frog.”
I don’t get it. French toads?
FROGS? Is it the er, politically incorrect 19th century term for French people?
Glad the toad survived, Arky.
I dunno – I feel really bad for this guy. You have to look at some of the “dumbest thing I ever did” threads on the SDMB to see that even very bright people do some amazingly dumb stuff, even if it’s for only 10 seconds in a long lifetime. This guy just picked the wrong 10 seconds to be an idiot.
There seeoms to be a future in dropping wild ferrets down one’s pants.
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~mcm/ferret.html
I have a feeling the parents will be suing someone over this accident, sadly. Probably the toy manufacturers.
Now that I can actually get through (local ISP problems), I’m a bit disappointed that this is not about the French, Coldy’s little quip notwithstanding.