Not much more has been learned about the mysterious exploding toads in Germany, though this article has a little more info than the previously posted one: Dogs and children have been warned away. The force of the explosions is impressive. “It’s like hitting a slightly rotten orange with a golf iron,” one Green activist explained yesterday. I was discussing the case with reader/rommmate Jay O. last night and he theorizes that teenagers may be involved, though if this case was shenanigan-related you think they would have quickly detected unusual Alka-Seltzer levels in the dead toads or something. I'm still going with sign of the end times until a better answer presents itself.