Screw ghost riding the whip, forget flash mobs. There’s a new internet craze threatening our children: taunting lizards and amphibians with fake food on your smartphone. Sure it’s cute when they’re crushing virtual insects but it’s not so cute when they attack your finger.
How many people thought that bearded dragon playing Ant Crusher with his tongue was funny? Everyone! So this genius decided to one up the lizard owner by letting an African Bull Frog play the same game and repeatedly bash its face against the screen so it could taste the sweet juicyness of an ant. Of course the frog doesn’t know there is no sweet juicyness and it’s all lolcats and roflcopters for us humans. Ho ho! So funny (it is really funny actually)… until the African Bull Frog tries to bite off your freaking finger.
People. Remember, these reptiles we’re teasing with our fancy technology and virtual games are literally cold-blooded killers. They ain’t got no time for games! It’s life or death for them. You know what the great Internet Reference Site (ahem, Wikipedia) says about African Bull Frogs?
The African Bullfrog is carnivorous and a voracious eater, eating insects, small rodents, reptiles, small birds and other amphibians. This frog is also aggressive and has been known to bite. An African bullfrog kept at the Pretoria Zoo in South Africa once ate 17 baby cobras. They emit a loud croaking sound.
Are you freaking kidding me? You’re playing games with a frog that is aggressive and voracious? SEVENTEEN BABY COBRAS? Do not tempt fate. Don’t screw with nature. Stop participating in this most dangerous meme*. [YouTube via Geekosystem]
*But really keep participating so we can see fingers bitten off, skin scratched and cobras eaten.
gman
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 9:26 AMthe end made me laugh…
MotorMouth
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 9:40 AMAwesome! Of course, real predators would never be fooled. A ferret, for example, is only interested in its reflection until it gets close enough to realise that the ferret in the mirror has no scent. It then loses interest completely and goes back to biting it’s owner for fun. (No, really, biting things is a ferret’s idea of fun.)
Zeruel
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 9:44 AMTruth, had a ferret up until its death a good number of years later. Biting is fun. Being bitten less so. I miss it’s attempts to kill itself around the house.
JD
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 10:27 AMpick up, carry, handle, poke, prod etc your ferrets when they’re young – they will be less inclined to bite when they’re older (which bloody hurts!)
had ferrets for ten years as a young bloke and still help my mates with training theirs. easily the best pets anybody could ever want and they’re useful to boot!
we used ours for rabbit hunting (and the occasional fox, snake or wild cat)
Ozoneocean
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 2:53 PMThe frog is still a predator, as real a one as any ferret, cat or dog.
Jon
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 10:47 AMHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH omg.. the end of it that actually made me laugh… especially when he squeal.. LOL
Just This Guy ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:39 PMhaaa haaa.. At least the last attack resulted in MEAT!
Andrew
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 5:24 PMlesson learned… dont screw round with frogs