Giant Frog Sighting?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 17th, 2007
Chased By A Frog Six Feet Tall
Marvelous Adventure of An Upholster of La Salle Steet
Robert Oakley, an upholsterer, was found by an officer tearing La Salle street Chicago like a hunted deer. Oakley told Justice Richardson he had been pursued by a frog 6 feet tall, which croaked as loud as a peal of thunder and had eyes as large and fierce as searchlights.
“I don’t care if I did violate an ordinance. I would violate every ordinance in the criminal code before I’d serve as a meal for any four-legged monster. Just think of it; the green-eyed creature walked right down La Salle street on his hind feet in broad daylight. It laid its front foot on my shoulder and spoke. I didn’t wait to hear what it said, and if I hadn’t had a pair of legs I’d be clogging its digestive apparatus by now, instead of standing before this honorable court. No, sirree,” he continued: “I intend to follow the trade of an upholsterer for some time, and when my time has come I hope I’ll not be obliged to serve as upholstering
to a frog’s stomach.”The officer who arrested Oakley explained that for some days a man dressed as a frog had been promenading the street advertising some new brand of medicine.
“This prisoner saw the frog,” said the officer, “and his guilty conscience — some say jimjams — caused him to take flight.”
Justice Richardson discharged the man, with a warning to keep away from La Salle street and medicine advertisers or else stay sober.Fort Covington [New York] Sun, December 26, 1895
FYI, “jimjams” is slang for delirium tremens.
Thanks to Jerome Clark.
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Thats one bad case of the “jimjams”.
Well, I guess Kermit has a wild side and has to have some fun too from time to time.
Must be an escaped pet of sasquatch.
It’s not easy being green?
The slang for alcohol withdrawal is the same as that for a pair of pajamas? Exactly how did that come about?
Holy talking frog batman!!! I’ll take 2 of whatever this guy is tripping on!
Why is this posted? The officer said that it was nothing more than a advertising mascot.
Gave me a good laugh though. The title should have read, “Killer 6 Foot Talking Frog on the Loose.”