The Egnatia highway, one of the busiest highways in Greece, was closed down for two hours. The road wasn’t closed by accidents (although this particular event caused three accidents), but rather by a horde of frogs that were crossing the highway in search of food. The traffic was stopped near the Greek town of Langadas, thanks to what Thessaloniki’s chief of traffic police Giorgos Thanoglou called, “a carpet of frogs.”
That’s pretty crazy, isn’t it? It’s like someone overturned a truck full of frogs in the middle of the road, and just waited while they all hopped off! Fortunately for Greeks, these were just little, normal frogs and not super-monster fanged frogs, otherwise there might be trouble. It’s amazing they closed the road for two hours to let the frogs pass, when they just could’ve given a road crew some push brooms and had them sweep the frogs off to the side of the road, or thrown frog feed into the closest lake and lured them all away.
When all else fails, you fight a horde of frogs with a horde of hungry French people.
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