May 26, 2010

Millions of frogs close Greek highway

04:31 PM

Commuting is tough enough, but drivers in northern Greece faced a two-hour wait today because of millions of tiny frogs covering a major highway.

"There was a carpet of frogs," said Thessaloniki traffic police chief Giorgos Thanoglou, AP reports. He speculated that the little green things left a nearby lake in search of food. (That's an increasingly desperate pursuit shared by their human counterparts in the debt-wracked country ...)

Police closed the highway after three cars skidded off the road trying to dodge the amphibians. No humans were hurt and no word on frog casualties.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... -highway/1