As for your description of a full tick - sounds right on with what I've
seen
As far as your boyhood fun - That was a great story!, sounds like
something one of my neighborhood pals would have thought of when I was
a kid. His name was Chucky - He once gassed a frog and then cut it
open to shock it back to life with a 9volt.
Chucky has since disappeared!!

Thanks for chiming in ;-)