Man Dies After Eating a Poisonous Toad in Kandal

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Man Dies After Eating a Poisonous Toad in Kandal

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Do Not Eat Poisonous Toads
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Cambodia Breaking News (Kandal): On September 13, 2019, at 1:30 am, a 45-year-old man, Kong Sopheak, a farmer, died after eating a toad in Koh Keo Krom village, Lvea Am district, Kandal.

Before the incident, the victim caught some toads under his house and he cooked them up. But after eating them, the victim threw up three or four times and then his wife took him to the hospital but he had already passed away.

After the postmortem examination, the body was returned to his family for funeral preparations.
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Bad move, much as I like toads nobody ever said they were delicious. Smoking them is safe enough though.
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I like the way the photos show how he went from being run over by a Lexus on a Takhmao bridge to dying of toxic amphibian consumption in a rural Kandal hellhole.
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Comrade Elmo Felo wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:02 pm I like the way the photos show how he went from being run over by a Lexus on a Takhmao bridge to dying of toxic amphibian consumption in a rural Kandal hellhole.
That's some heavy voodoo shit there, I'm staying well away. :?
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OMG that's horrible, they are disgusting looking creatures, why would anyone eat a toad !!!cheese and tomato pizza yes but toad no thanks.
The revenge of the toad from toad hall.

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There's an elderly English chap in PP for donkeys years who looks and acts like Toad, of Toad Hall.
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Jerry Atrick wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:45 pm There's an elderly English chap in PP for donkeys years who looks and acts like Toad, of Toad Hall.
Funny, I get the same feeling from that American lawyer who has the sweat (secretions) wiped from his brow in Larry's.
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Jerry Atrick wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:45 pm There's an elderly English chap in PP for donkeys years who looks and acts like Toad, of Toad Hall.
Pic or it didn't happen haha :stir:
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Jerry Atrick wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:45 pm There's an elderly English chap in PP for donkeys years who looks and acts like Toad, of Toad Hall.
A photographer cum English teacher perchance?
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John Bingham wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2019 9:41 pm Bad move, much as I like toads nobody ever said they were delicious. Smoking them is safe enough though.
Is this you John?
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