This paper considers the following scenario:

There is a Poisson process on R with intensity f where 0<=f(x)<=infty for x=>0 and f(x)=0 for x<0. The "points" of the process represent sleeping frogs. In addition, there is one active frog initially located at the origin. At time t=0 this frog begins performing Brownian motion with leftward drift C (i.e. its motion is a random process of the form B_t-Ct). Any time an active frog arrives at a point where a sleeping frog is residing, the sleeping frog becomes active and begins performing Brownian motion with leftward drift C, that is independent of the motion of all of the other active frogs. This paper establishes sharp conditions on the intensity function f that determine whether the model is transient (meaning the probability that infinitely many frogs return to the origin is 0), or non-transient (meaning this probability is greater than 0).