Earth Changes
Ken Tomkins, 61, was hospitalized after skidding his bicycle into a mound of dead bugs and shattering his hip, collarbone and ribs, the Gold Coast Bulletin reports.
Tomkins said he noticed the slick as he rode along The Esplanade at Surfers Paradise, but initially thought it was water or leaves.
He will be bedridden for six weeks after hitting the bugs, which were piled to the edge of the road by a council street sweeper, at about 25kph.
The water beetle invasion is a never-before-seen phenomenon that has stumped local scientists.
The incident was captured on amateur YouTube footage showing the large black beetles swarming around lights and dropping to the footpath in Surfers Paradise.
Entomologist Professor Clyde Wild from Queensland's Griffith University said he had no definitive explanation for why the beetles had turned up in such large numbers at the beach side holiday hot spot.
"I've never seen swarms of these like this before, why they are at the beach front escapes any explanation I can think of,'' Wild said.
''You might see two or three on any given night - this is literally thousands."
Reader Comments
does his insurance cover "beetle collision"???? That'll have some insurance staffer laughing his/her ass off for sure, although I know its not funny for Mr. Tomkins.
Floods, locusts, crickets and now water beetles. There were ten Biblical plagues, so six more to go? Australia is not the only continent which will experience these plagues.
James McCanney gives one possible cause for plagues such as these. From Surviving Planet X Passage: "There is a long list of secondary effects that could occur [when a large body discharges the solar capacitor]. One example is that ... The vermin are forced out due to the electrical currents set up in the mantle of the Earth." (p. 23)
What are the plagues, I am not so familiar with the bible prophecies.
greetings Peter from Holland.
Gospel of Luke 21 :10_11
There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky.
world food shortage crisis has developed; the world economy has become extremely fragile; the alarm has been raised over new incurable "superbugs"; major storms are pummeling the world; powerful earthquakes .
australia has had the floods and now the plague.
i wonder what message mother nature is giving?