State warns about eating too many frog legs from eastern Everglades
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Originally published 7:32 a.m., Thursday, May 15, 2008
Updated 7:32 a.m., Thursday, May 15, 2008
TALLAHASSEE Wildlife and health officials are warning diners not to eat too many frog legs that come from state-controlled parts of the eastern Everglades.
Officials say a two-night harvest of 150 pig frogs from the Everglades in western Miami-Dade and Broward Counties showed elevated mercury levels in the amphibians.
Women of childbearing age and young children are especially at risk for mercury poisoning. Health officials say they should limit their intake of pig frogs caught in the Everglades and the Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area.
State researchers say anyone eating the frog legs should also avoid fish that have high mercury levels.
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Information from: The Miami Herald, http://www.herald.com
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Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with the runoff of BIG SUGAR??
#1 Posted by lswjth2 on May 15, 2008 at 7:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
no, it is all those thermometers that are exploding from global warming.
#2 Posted by swampbuggy on May 15, 2008 at 7:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I figure it's from all the stolen Lincolns dumped in the canals.
#3 Posted by cupcake on May 15, 2008 at 8:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
30 year old news. More studies, never any action.
#4 Posted by gulfer on May 15, 2008 at 9:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
That explains why so many Rednecks are a little slooooow! Eating too many mercury laden frawg legs negatively affects early developmental brain growth! Yee Haw!!!
#5 Posted by What_Say_You on May 15, 2008 at 9:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
so Thats why all the snowbirds/yankees drive so slow in the left lane,,,,,, gets ,,confusing huh?, ""right brain<less> side,,,left brain<less> side,oh which do i use",,,,,lolol,,,,,us ,,Rednecks,,,are slow ,from watching them drive in right hand circles with the left turn signal on,,,you get kinda dizzy when ,, They,,, are here,,,but they ARE a funny kinda animal and entertainment Is hard to come by when they over crowd this area,,,,,lolol,,,
#6 Posted by Bullbat on May 15, 2008 at 10:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I think it's all from that plane that crashed in the everglades a couple of years ago.
The one with all those oxigen generator things.
#7 Posted by RockfordGrad on May 15, 2008 at 10:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The best Frog Legs I ever ate were gigged right out of a strip mine lake far up in the frozen nothern wastelands.
#8 Posted by cupcake on May 15, 2008 at 10:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
In fact here's a funny story (if your sick like me).
My Uncle and I were out late one night gigging frogs and drinking a lot of beer. We were coming back to camp in his 61 Chevy truck, I was driving (I was 14 years old), he was shining a spot light down the road, when we spotted a group of baby racoons rolling around in the dirt lane. My Uncle wanted to catch one so we stopped the truck, put it in nuetral with the engine running to shine the headlights, and went on a chase. What seemed like a flat lane turned out to have a little pitch to it and the truck began to roll as we were chasing 'coons'. We turned around just in time to watch the truck go over the edge of a strip mine pit and down a 50' embankment. Luck was on our side and the darn thing got hung up on a stump before it went into about 90' of water and stopped just before the waters edge. It was still running with lights shining. We climbed on down and rescued the rest of the beer and sat at the side of the road laughing. About then the local Deputy came by and commented on what a sorry mess we seemed to be. He had a good laugh himself until he heard the sound of a 5 gallon bucket of gigged frogs coming from the truck. Now if you've ever heard this sound it can only be described as just like a human baby. He jumped into action and we just laughed harder. He came back, called a tow truck, and about an hour later we were driven home with little more than a pushed in grill and a rattling fan blade.
They don't make trucks like that anymore.
I guess it's getting harder to get good frog legs too.
#9 Posted by cupcake on May 15, 2008 at 10:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Cupcake, your story made my day (which shows you how sick I am). Thanks
#10 Posted by BlueTonguedVole on May 15, 2008 at 11:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Great story cupcake! Now days that story would have had a different outcome:
Your Uncle would have been arrested for a DUI, the delinquency of a minor for giving you beer, tresspassing, FWC would have shown up looking for your frog-giggin license, the Chevy would have been totaled and insurance would not have paid a dime because the key was in the ignition, engine on and unattended, and your Uncle's wife would have beat the hell out of him for having to bail him out of jail and not bringing dinner home tat night!!! LOL!! Things sure have changed in little ole Naples, haven't they!
#11 Posted by NaplesCracker on May 15, 2008 at 12:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hmmmmmm- maybe we need to do a little research on the correlation between criminal behavior and frog leg consumption! I could do a PhD Thesis on this! Could be a good defense in a court of law! Heck, if you can use the old " TWINKIE" defense, why not a "frog leg" defense!
#12 Posted by biomanogt on May 15, 2008 at 12:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Cupcake, I gigged frogs in a pond named Tittles, on top of a mountain in Southwest Oklahoma. I was about the same age; brings back memories.
Me and my dog Rocky (cause he ate rocks)spent many a weekend up in those mountains, hunting rabbits and gigging frogs. Wow, I'd like to go back. "Willouby, Willouby, next stop Willouby."
#13 Posted by 676 on May 15, 2008 at 12:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Greeat..i just ate some at Porky's last night... :(
#14 Posted by Pigsaw on May 15, 2008 at 1:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Yes Naples sure has changed but this little episode actually took place in 1964 in Randolph County, Illinois. Home to Peabody and King Coal at the time.
We hooked a chain to the front of the truck and a tree and pulled the front end out pretty close to good. My Uncle drove that truck just like that for many years after.
He's 66 now and still likes to go frog giggin'.
#15 Posted by cupcake on May 15, 2008 at 1:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Yuk
#16 Posted by EstatesDweller on May 15, 2008 at 2:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
676
"Willouby, Willouby, next stop Willouby."
Wow, Never thought I'd see a TwilightZone reference on here.
#17 Posted by Naples_zen on May 15, 2008 at 2:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Naples_zen. What? this is the TwilightZone, isn't it?
#18 Posted by BlueTonguedVole on May 15, 2008 at 3:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Yep, Naples_zen, as much as many of us would like to, you just can't go back. Once the innocence of youth is gone.........
#19 Posted by 676 on May 15, 2008 at 5:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Rockford, that was ValuJet 592... 12 years ago.
#20 Posted by jim09091 on May 17, 2008 at 11:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I giged frogs why I wuz eatin purkrinds im mys pickup truk!
#21 Posted by techie on May 18, 2008 at 7:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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