True story: In some parts of Australia - places where cane toads are abundand - teenagers play games like "toad cricket", "toad golf", or "who can kill more toads in one night" running them over with their car. Some Friday nights the roads are covered in toad guts, making you slip when trying to cross. While I absolutely condemn such senseless cruelty to animals, I must admit I have an odd - some may call it sick - fascination with roadkill.
I know I am not the only one out there (you know who you are). It is ghastly, I know, but now there is a new, healthy way to deal with this perversion of the mind: Plush Roadkill. Stuffed animals that carry all the gory fascination of a real mangled carcass.
Take e.g. Grind, the squashed rabbit:
The blood and guts and gore are made using the latest, cutting edge stuffing. It's a special new micro-bead stuffing that gives the guts and organs a more malleable, tactile effect. It makes it more squidgy. You can pull Grind's blood and innards through the zip that lines the right side of the teddy carcass.
Isn´t that cute? I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Via [Boing Boing]
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