My wife travels a good bit due to her job. She has a route she drives from Little Rock to Jackson, MS and back through North Louisiana (so she can see our parents). Anyway, this past week she made the trip in the G35 Coupe and it was storming the entire way back. 95% of the roads she travels are 2 lane highways on this trip. She said when she was in the middle of nowhere, suddenly the entire highway was covered in frogs. She said she felt terrible, because she was hitting them left and right, but there was nothing she could do.
When she got back home, I heard the garage door open and went to greet her. As soon as I opened the door into the garage, I could see something hanging from the front of the car. I got her to stop and got down and looked. Here is this poor frog that had gotten hung under the front of the car and I thought was dead. I poked him a couple of times and got no movement. Figuring the poor guy had the ride of his life and died, I grabbed him and got ready to get rid of him. Next thing I know he is alive and flopping like a mad man!
So I look to see how he is hooked to the car and his back right leg has gone between the chin spoiler and the plastic piece that protects it from dragging the ground. I used a screwdriver to pry them apart enough to get his leg out and give him the once over. He really looked good, just a scratch on his leg. Leg seemed to move fine (so far as I could tell, I work on computers not frogs for a living!)
I put him in the flowerbed and he was gone the next morning. This poor bastard had the ride of his life. Just inches off the ground, facing forward, arms (legs) out like Superman, at over 70mph for over an hour! And lived!
Just think of the story he is telling all the other frogs...
I was born in Lake Charles LA, and have traveled some two lane roads with flooded rice fields on either side. Certain times of the year you will see these massive amounts of frog activity.
I remember one night there was so many crossing a road from one rice field to another that the lights on the car made the road look like it was moving from all the frogs jumping. At one point the car actually started sliding from all the frog guts on the tires.
We had that same frog-crossing scenario happen on my street when we first moved to my town way back in like 1978..I was just a wee lil boy at the time, but my dad always tells the story. We live in an area with massive wetlands and swamps.
I almost killed my neighbors cat for that.. didn't have the heart but I did have the chance.. caught it sleeping and jumped over it & landed right around it's head .. scared the hell outta it.
This is like those times when you see a flock of birds in front of you. All the birds swoop up...except one, who swoops down towards your car. He disappears as he seems to hit your bumper, then flies out the back of your car and climbs back up to the flock.
'04 G35 Coupe 6MT, Black/Black, Premium Package, Aero Package w/Spoiler
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