A Lesson on Frog Etiquette

So I had a very interesting adventure this weekend! We were driving to Fatima Orphanage and Vern asked me to video tape for him since he was driving and I was sitting in the front seat. So here I am behind the camera giving a tour of Liberia and narrating as much as possible. There is one part of our drive that goes over a bridge and at the end of the bridge there is a man who has frogs and sometimes fish tied to a pole. The frogs dangle upside down from a string tied to their leg and every once in awhile the man will throw water on them and they all bounce around. (It really is crazy to see but we all look forward to seeing the frog man).

Well this day we decided to slow down once we crossed the bridge so I could get a nice shot of the frog man. We end up having to stop because of traffic so I am videoing the frogs bouncing around and then insanity breaks out! The frog guy jumps in front of his pole and starts screaming "no pictures, no video". And one of the guys next to him stands up and starts screaming the same thing. This guy actually starts shooing at us as he continues to scream. By now I am screaming at Vern to keep driving, he is screaming that he can't because traffic has not cleared and everyone else in the truck are either joining in with their own shouts or laughing at the craziness. Then the unthinkable happens - the guy who was shooing at us has actually approached the car, still shooing and screaming, and by now I am slightly panicked and am trying to lean away from the open window. And this man reaches into the truck and hits me! He actually hit me...I was hit by a Liberian man!

Now I am screaming for a whole new reason! Vern and everyone in our truck is screaming in shock and traffic finally clears. We drive away from frog man and his hitting friend and I announce that I do not want to video tape any more. It was a very wild start to my Saturday morning but we all learned a lesson from it: Do not videotape frog man's frogs! Now I am on the hunt to find out why.