Dead tadpoles seen falling from sky in Miyagi

Wednesday 17th June, 03:48 PM JST

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xample1 at 07:15 PM JST - 17th June

Could it be the recently launched North Korean satellite beginning it's expected job? strange
imacat at 07:54 PM JST - 17th June

I have had a similar experience recently. Not tadpoles but it seems to have been raining cigarette butts and sweet wrappers around my neighborhood.
inkjet at 08:06 PM JST - 17th June

I have had a similar experience recently. Not tadpoles but it seems to have been raining cigarette butts and sweet wrappers around my neighborhood.

sounds like a plane dumping it's garbage. don't forget your umbrella.
whynothow at 08:07 PM JST - 17th June

Dear readers,

We would like to apologize for spreading such nonsense. We should have seen the skyscrapers surrounding "The Scene" and somehow make the connection.. So sorry....
nandakandamanda at 08:21 PM JST - 17th June

Japanese media are banned from reporting where NK's poison balloons land. Originally they used to say where such-and-such a balloon with such-and-such a container & release mechanism had landed. It was even reported whenever an area of trees and bush suddenly died. It was pointed out that reporting such incidents gave North Korea free information on the effectiveness of their biological and chemical programs.

Now call me stupid, but if some bright spark in NK decided to fill a plastic container with tadpoles etc., then this would get them free publicity whenever it happened.

Well, OK, you have to admit this is one possible scenario! :8)
JoeBigs at 09:09 PM JST - 17th June

Could some please rain some nice fatty Tuna please......Could someone please please please rain some of that Oishi Tuna that would be grand! Make sure to give me a time for this rain so I can be inside my mansion, thank you.....
shanabelle at 10:02 PM JST - 17th June

Ｉ　ｋｉｎｄ　ｏｆ　ｌｉｋｅ　ｔｈｅ　ＮＫ　ｔｈｅｏｒｙ　ｔｏｏ！
iraira at 10:08 PM JST - 17th June

The raining tadpoles and the Mayan/Inca/Illuminati/Free Mason conspiracy suggests that the world is about to end, hence, I'm saying not to worry about heart disease and have that second helping of tonkatsu.
nandakandamanda at 12:08 AM JST - 18th June

One other theory gaining ground in Japan.

Spring, when the chicks in their nests, fresh from their newly-hatched aggs are needing lots of food. The parents make scores of daily flights, and some of these places are in the flight paths of storks or herons homing in on their nesting woods. Are birds getting clumsier this year? Pesticides affecting their grip?
Molenir at 12:19 AM JST - 18th June

Probably is caused by global warming. Along with everything else right?
Nessie at 01:09 AM JST - 18th June

According to Kyodo, they were alive until they were taken to the hospital, where they then died.
gogogo at 02:04 AM JST - 18th June

a woman in Miyagi Prefecture has witnessed them falling from the sky

Second hand gossip
sf2k at 05:17 AM JST - 18th June

it's spreading
jason6 at 08:54 AM JST - 18th June
1. birds or other predators don't participate in synchronized frog dropping on a mass scale. if there was a freak accident it wouldn't be repeated several times over widely dispersed locations.
2. wind or other atmospheric phenomenon would not only pick up tadpoles, there are other things just as easily movable (like water, plant matter, small fish). plus many of these events have happened on calm days.
i'm inclined to believe it's a copy-cat prank or someone with an agenda (like North Korea)
Sarge at 09:56 PM JST - 18th June

As long as I don't see any dead cows falling from the sky, I'm OK. Of course if one ever hit me, I'd never know it.