Attack of teh killar Cicadas v2.0

[SDM]

Cicadas are tiny al-Qaida opperatives!

This ground breaking news guaranteed to break your ground.

Sorry 'bout the poor scan quality, but I think you can still read it.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9503/bug1.jpg

He got pwned by a 2 inch bug. :lol:


edit: Thats the best I can do and keep it under 750mb for free hosting.

[I Hate Pants]

Nope! Can't read it. Try again! You lose!

[Ivan]

Nope! Can't read it. Try again! You lose!
Get some glasses I can read it. But it was kind of hard to read.

[Electrofreak]

/me had no trouble reading it.

Cicadas freak me out.

[SDM]

I thought it was funny. The pic of the mangled truck, with the caption "Distracted by bug". :rofl: That bug fucked that truck up!

What the kid says happened:
(in manly voice) "The bug landed on me, and I brushed it off, I then needed to swerve to miss a pedestrian"

What actually happened:
Big fucking bug landed on him, and he fucking freaked out screaming like a girl "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
and waving his arms around like a lunatic.

[Triggar]

Nope! Can't read it. Try again! You lose!

Here you go:

In what might have been one of the first cicada-related traffic accidents in the Indianapolis area this year, an 18-year-old motorist landed upside-down in his pickup Thursday after he became distracted by one of the large insects.

Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Jay Grow said Joshua Packwood was driving north on Sargent Road about 11:30 a.m. when a cicada landed on him. He brushed the insect away but then had to swerve to avoid a pedestrian. His pickup left the road, hit a culvert and overturned in the 7800 block of Sargent on the Northeast-side.

Sargent, a two-lane road that runs between homes and apartment just east of Mud Creek, has no sidewalks.

The accident spilled gasoline onto Packwood, which kept medics from evacuating him by helicopter, Grow said. Packwood was extracted by Lawrence Township firefighters and taken by ambulance to Methodist Hospital, where a spokeswoman said he was in stable condition.

Cicadas emerge en masse after 17 years of living dormant underground. Despite their size and noisy demeanor, cidadas are harmless.

Their appearance continues to be spotty in Indianapolis, as some parts of the city lack the habitat beloved by the bugs. While underground, cicadas suck sap from tree roots. In places with few trees or where roots have been disturbed, the insects can't survive.

Sargent Road, with its canopy of leafy boughs, is ideal for cidadas.

[SDM]

Thanks Triggar, I actually thought about typing it out, but somthing shiney cought my attention. Oh, there it is agai

[Triggar]

Meh, I'm waiting for my roommate to finish up his business anyhow, thought I'd help out :)

[TekDragon]

Yeah, i been hearing about those bitches. Species X or something.

Supposedly they come up only once every decade or so from the ground in huge (like... really huge) swarms and bumble around everywhere.

Thank god i don't have to worry about that in central New York state (which is the ONLY good thing i've experienced up here).

[AztecWarrior]

HFS.

Someone call...

http://www.orkin.com/img/inset_orkinpestsolutions.jpg
The ORKIN man!

[Wraithlord]

http://planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23038&page=1

another cicada victim
edit: oops hehe my bad

HERE bug attack (http://planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23038&page=1)

thats better
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[Dharkbayne]

???????????

[Rbstr]

phpcode? wronge tag buddy

[Khronos]

i am not alone now! hahah


this pic is more appropriate now


http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7831/cicadowned.jpg

[Madcow]

Once every 10 years? Try every freaking summer in Arizona. They don't freak me out or anything, but that godawful noise they make is just about enough to drive anybody insane. During the months when they are thickest you can't go anywhere outside without that incessant buzzing, it gets pretty loud when there are a lot of them around.

When I was a kid we used to capture them and tie string around their abdomens leaving their wings free. They'd fly like mofos trying to get away from you and you'd just slowly let the string out as you spun them in circles using the power of their own flight to propel them. Let the string out a little more, a little more, a little more and suddenly they'd brain themselves on a tree in the yard as it would never occur to them to fly back towards you instead of trying to pull away from you (which the string wouldn't let them do). Sounds like a cruel thing to do, but it couldn't happen to a nicer bug.

[Wraithlord]

first, madcow that is an extremely cruel and funny thing to do

second, I think you are talking about june-bugs, cicadas do not come out every summer, but june bugs do, they are just as big and just as anoyying, and are great to throw on people or put in their backpacks

cicada
http://www.ecoafrica.com/krugerpark/cicada.gif


junebug
http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F1Column/2002Articles/GraphicsInsects/june%20bug.jpg

[Madcow]

first, madcow that is an extremely cruel and funny thing to do

second, I think you are talking about june-bugs, cicadas do not come out every summer, but june bugs do, they are just as big and just as anoyying, and are great to throw on people or put in their backpacks

Cicadas do not come out every summer everywhere. They do in Phoenix. Some summers they're thicker than others, but I don't remember a summer ever where they weren't around. Growing up here people called them locusts, and most locals still do but they're cicadas. We have june bugs as well although they're much rarer and don't make that awful annoying buzz sound.
Cicadas plant their eggs in the ground during the summer and the next summer the eggs hatch and these horrendously ugly brown wingless bugs come crawling out of the ground and climbing as high as they possible can during the day (usually up the sides of trees or fences/houses). At night their backs split open and the winged versions come crawling out of the brown 'shell' and sit on the tree/fence/whatever trying to dry off enough to fly away. When they first come out of the shell they're this almost neon green color, and their wings just hang down. By morning they're dry and flying around annoying people. The brown shells in the meantime continue to cling to trees/walls/whatever until somebody knocks them off.

Cicada shell:

http://www.acriticaldecision.org/photos-heartland-page-6/cicada-shell.jpg

After they've broken out:

http://rip.tamu.edu/tedd/Dcx_0014.jpg

Fugly hatching in action:

http://www.pikespeakphoto.com/images/animals/cicada.jpg

[Khronos]

Cicadas do not come out every summer everywhere. They do in Phoenix. Some summers they're thicker than others, but I don't remember a summer ever where they weren't around. Growing up here people called them locusts, and most locals still do but they're cicadas. We have june bugs as well although they're much rarer and don't make that awful annoying buzz sound.
Cicadas plant their eggs in the ground during the summer and the next summer the eggs hatch and these horrendously ugly brown wingless bugs come crawling out of the ground and climbing as high as they possible can during the day (usually up the sides of trees or fences/houses). At night their backs split open and the winged versions come crawling out of the brown 'shell' and sit on the tree/fence/whatever trying to dry off enough to fly away. When they first come out of the shell they're this almost neon green color, and their wings just hang down. By morning they're dry and flying around annoying people. The brown shells in the meantime continue to cling to trees/walls/whatever until somebody knocks them off.


we get them every year here in OH too ;) , but only a few shells can be found...not many "hatched" ones at all.

you explained them pretty much perfectly

[Rbstr]

ugh we get them bad sometimes in KC they suck, bigtime

[Indecisive]

In the words of one guy in the TR sanc yesturday "Use your chainblades! Its Cicada season!"

[Wraithlord]

hmm...there are tons of junebugs were I live, TONS

[Neon Apocalypse]

i think we have junebugs in new england, never payed attention to them

and i am glad we dont have cicadas, are there any in texas because im going there this summer?

[JetRaiden]

I think it would be cool if flies were the size of german shepards...that way, when you swat them, you could hear them scream. well, you'd probably need a tennis racket to take something like that out but it'd be fun nonetheless.

[Neon Apocalypse]

no it wouldnt

now go fry bugs with your magnifying glass

[AztecWarrior]

We don't have any bugs here, just water moccasins (one of the most poisonous snakes in the world), crocodiles, AND alligators! (Yes. Both. Miami is mean.)

[Indecisive]

For german shepard size bugs? Hell, Raid better come out with a shotgun.

[Madcow]

We don't have any bugs here, just water moccasins (one of the most poisonous snakes in the world), crocodiles, AND alligators! (Yes. Both. Miami is mean.)

No bugs in Miami? Is that because you consider the mosquitos to be birds due to their size?

[AztecWarrior]

No bugs in Miami? Is that because you consider the mosquitos to be birds due to their size?
I stand corrected.wanker

[SDM]

ugh we get them bad sometimes in KC they suck, bigtime
Especially when they attack your truck and twist it into a pretzelized scrap heap.

[NoSurrender]

god i hate bugs, and those POS bastards came out last year. they're supposed to come out this year, so when i grill im gonna keep a can of AXE and a lighter with me. i hate em they eat up all the plants leave their skins and make the worst noise.

[Rbstr]

I'm gona make a Spupersoacker/flametrhower jsut to kill them.

*Falmenoise**deingCicadianoise*