On 17/01/2014 12:09 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
"David Hare-Brained-Scott" wrote:

It has been dry lately so I have been irrigating the orchard. I moved the
sprayers this morning and then started the pump. One of the four heads
wasn't working at all. These are the type with two nipples, one has a
tapper, a spring loaded arm that rotates the whole assembly using the
pressure of the water. Normally they will give out some dribble of water
from either of the two jets even if blocked with organic matter sucked
through the pump from the river. On closer inspection something slimy was
being squeezed out of each jet. I pulled at it but did no good as I
couldn't get hold of it. So back to get some tools and take the head apart.
As I lifted it off the stand what should be hanging down out the inlet
side - legs. Green legs with webbed feet.

Imagine you are a frog and have curled up inside a bit of pipe for a kip.
Then a gush of high pressure water hits you and you are travelling at speed
down the main pipe, waterslide! Then you take a branch into a much narrower
pipe and round a few bends, upside down, wow water rollercoaster! Then you
reach the sprinkler head where some of you goes out one jet and some goes
out the other....


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Only the lead imbecile of all imbeciles pumps water from a natural
source without installing a proper screen... you sick *******!

Grow up Sheldon. It's a frog that met with an untimely accident not
some cute furry, big eyed, little mammal such as those used by TV anchor
idiots to bring forth gasps in incredulous viewers at the end of the
half hour of crud that passes for "News .

David didn't go out of his way to step on it and nor did he use any of
the arsenal of the flora or fauna killing substances most of us have in
our sheds. The frog was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Get over it.