Posted on 07/27/2016 3:38:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber
An Austin man who is accused of beating a turtle to death with a hammer told authorities he was acting in self-defense, his arrest-warrant affidavit says.
Terry Washington, 55, told police that the turtle lunged at him and repeatedly tried to bite him after it had been hooked on a fishing line on the edge of Lady Bird Lake, KVUE-TV reports.
According to the affidavit, he said he killed the turtle in self-defense and in order to get the fishing hook back, then dragged it under a bridge to get it out of the view of passers-by.
The June 21 incident was captured on video by a runner, who posted it online. The graphic footage shows a man beating the turtle repeatedly with the blunt end of the hammer.
Witnesses told police that Washington never attempted to free the turtle from the line and said that the turtle was trying to get away from him, according to KXAN-TV.
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An attack trained turtle. That is just what I need!
He didn’t try to outrun it? D’OH!
Snapping turtles can be ornery but it sounds like witnesses said it wasn’t.
“He didn’t try to outrun it? D’OH!”
Haven’t you read about the Turtle & the Hare?
So we need a new Senate Leader?
And they say it is a Capital offense.
TLM!
At least it wasn’t an attack rabbit that went after Jimmy Carter.
40 pound snapper. I think I would let him keep the hook, personally.
This goes under the top five dumbest or most cruel criminal acts I’ve heard of recently, but I don’t see how this could be labeled as ‘humorous’. I’m probably over thinking it.
The turtle ‘lunged’ at you? Really? What, like a flying squirrel?
He was lucky it was a lone turtle and not a whole herd.
Not really humor, but FR does not have a category for stupid.
Nice bluegrass music, but creepy video. The camera work and production must have taken weeks.
True.
Lock up this bastard zombie and leave him there.
Feed him to the turtles.
Maybe it was a rare breed of Pit-Turtle.
I need a pit turtle to keep by my front door. I was contacted by a Nigerian princess who needed my bank information to transfer her money and escape an arranged marriage. But, the transfer went the wrong way and I need the turtle to keep the debt collectors away until the mistake can be fixed.
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