KXYL pondering Exploding Frogs ?
World News
April 26, 2005
Mystery of toads that explode in the night
From Roger Boyes in Berlin
AN OUTBREAK of exploding toads is perplexing the residents of Hamburg. The affected creatures seem to behave quite normally, croaking and languidly snapping up flies. Suddenly, after nightfall, they start to balloon to more than three times their normal size and can barely crawl before popping. Their entrails are expelled distances of up to one metre.
Thousands of the green amphibians have died this way. “It is a deeply shocking sight,” said Werner Smolnik, a leading activist from the Nabu environmental protection group.
A meeting of wildlife experts has been summoned to explain the phenomenon, which has occurred near a lake in a fashionable part of the city. Tabloid newspapers have already called it the “Pond of Death.” Man known for violent streak charged with injuring kitten
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Old E. Dallas neighbor says he threatened to kill her after his arrest
09:26 PM CDT on Monday, April 25, 2005
By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News
Angela Alanis has been terrified of the man she calls the neighborhood bully.
MICHAEL AINSWORTH/DMN
An Old East Dallas man, who has been charged with animal cruelty after a kitten was injured Saturday night, has three cats. Neighbor Angela Alanis, who called police, holds one of the man's cats, Smokey.
He broke windows and knocked down her fence, but she did not report it, she said. She did not even report it when she said he threatened to harm her and her husband.
"He was telling us that he was going to kill us – that this is his neighborhood," said Mrs. Alanis, 32. "We were afraid he would retaliate."
But Mrs. Alanis put fear aside late Saturday and called police when she spotted him hurling a kitten to the pavement in the 4600 block of Manett Street in Old East Dallas.
"If he can do that to the cats, what else is he capable of?" Mrs. Alanis said Monday. "We were just always afraid he would do something crazy."
Edward Pinales, 32, is being held in the Dallas County Jail on charges of animal cruelty and retaliation with bail totaling $125,000. He was also held without bond on a misdemeanor charge of civil contempt.
In this neighborhood of 1940s-era brick bungalows, Mr. Pinales bragged out his gang membership and was known as a ruffian with a propensity toward violent behavior, particularly when he drank, some neighbors said. Others described him as a cat lover who helped with household chores.
Mr. Pinales had lived with his grandparents since he was a teenager, did not drive and had no visible means of employment, neighbors said.
Some neighbors did not want to be quoted by name but echoed Mrs. Alanis' comments. They said they suspected that he had vandalized their property, but they also had refrained from turning him in.
Charming or nasty?
"When he's sober, he can be very, very charming," said one neighbor who has known Mr. Pinales since he was a teenager. "When he drinks, he's just as nasty as can be."
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