Grasshopper swarm leaves 11 dead!!!

watch.org ^ | 11-02-03

[Armed Civilian]

Eleven people died and thousands were taken to hospital with breathing difficulties after a swarm of grasshoppers invaded a town in central Sudan.

[Armed Civilian]

Eleven people died and thousands were taken to hospital with breathing difficulties after a swarm of grasshoppers invaded a town in central Sudan.

Health authorities in Wad Medani, capital of the central al-Jezira state, said an epidemic of what they considered to be asthma had afflicted 1,685 people since October 22, all of whom had since been cured.

The government-owned Al-Anbaa newspaper reported 11 people had died from the breathing difficulties.

"The appearance of the epidemic is linked to the unprecedented increase in the grasshopper insects," the daily quoted the health authorities as saying.

Resident Joseph Mogum in Wad Medani, about 176 km southeast of the capital Khartoum, said the grasshoppers gave off a strong smell which caused breathing problems.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said on October 21 that swarms of locusts were threatening crops in northeastern Sudan, Mauritania and northern Niger, but it was not clear if it was the same species that was affecting Wad Medani in central Sudan.

Mogum said the grasshoppers were smaller than the usual species that appear during the rainy season in Sudan and destroy vegetation.

Heavy rains in Africa's largest country over the past three months have caused floods that have killed at least 20 people.

[clee1]

Natural population control at work.

[Ditter]

Grasshoppers with a smell? I wonder if they were stinkbugs?

[BenLurkin]

The government-owned Al-Anbaa newspaper

Yeah.

[nothingnew]

"IMHOTEP!...IMHOTEP!"

FMCDH

[Tacis]

Well, they probably brought it upom themselves.

[South40]

the grasshoppers gave off a strong smell which caused breathing problems.

My homemade Chili can have the same effect.

[Chad Fairbanks]

IT'S THE END-TIMES! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, SINNERS! FOR THE END IS NEAR!!!! AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

[ambrose]

Dayenou

[buffyt]

I know you are kidding, Chad, but isn't there a plague of grasshoppers in Revelations???? scary.....

[buffyt]

I just had leftover homemade chili. It is so much better leftover. I try all these gourmet recipes, but good old American comfort food like chili... yum.....

[Chad Fairbanks]

Locusts, if I recall... ;0)

[Armed Civilian]

Hello ambrose, I am shocked you would respond to this post. I am hoping Jeb can step in and do something :^) Translate Dayenou please.

[gitmogrunt]

The liberal environmentalist mindset says.."Better to sacrifice a few people instead of kill innocent grasshoppers with DDT."

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ces mains pleines du sang
de mon mari, de mon amant,
de mes enfants absents,
de ses promesses de vivre avec moi cent ans,
ces mains ne sont pas les mains
de ce pauvre instrument.
Ce sont vos mains
pleines du sang de mon amant.

C'est vous qui avez fait entrer leurs commandants
avec leurs armes, avec leurs plans
de faire cela exactement.
C'est vous qui avez nommé ce plan
"processus de paix" ; absolument.
C'est vous qui avez voté
pour tous ces instruments,
et vous le saviez dès le commencement.

Je ne dois pas dire ces mots choquants
le jour où vous avez tué mon amant ?
Quand vous serez en gros plan
devant votre visage blanc
devant la glace et vos mains blanches,
dites-vous chaque soir jusqu'à cent ans
que vos mains sont rouges de son sang.

Vous entendrez chaque nuit
les cris de son étranglement
et mon déchirement.
Et vous devrez le raconter à vos enfants.

[Armed Civilian]

Dude, I don't parley vouis french.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Sorry ;0) It's a french poem called "Dayenou"...

[Armed Civilian]

Well, translate anyway.

[ambrose]

http://www.aish.com/passinsight/passinsightdefault/Dayenu!_Many_Plagues.asp