I love to paddle up to a log where there are a dozen or more sunning themselves ... and ploop....they all slide into the water in unison. Sweet critters.
Posted on 05/14/2016 8:57:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
So do I and it saddens me to see someone intentionally swerve to hit an animal.
I’m guessing it jumped off of a fence post...
In CT, you’d be arrested and your house & car confiscated.
I love to paddle up to a log where there are a dozen or more sunning themselves ... and ploop....they all slide into the water in unison. Sweet critters.
I hate people who would deliberately drive over a turtle. I like turtles, although I would not want a snapping turtle take a bite out of me. I have carried little turtles that were in the middle of the road. Once I came upon this big old turtle in the middle of the road. I stopped and got out of the car (it was not a busy road). As I approached the turtle, it made an angry hissing sound. I backed off and fortunately I guess I annoyed the turtle enough that it started walking away and it got itself off the road.
If such a creature exists outside of Photoshop, I’d leave it alone, lol.
“The turtle was too small to go on the Disney rides, “
As a teenager, my buddy and I caught snapping turtlles, butchered them and sold the meat to delis in Cleveland. The biggest one we caught was 48 pounds.
True story:
Back in the early 70’s, I was riding with my granny in her Ford Pinto heading home on a Texas dirt road. We came around a corner and there was a HUGE snapping turtle in the road. Granny held onto the wheel and drove over the monster. We almost high centered on the monster. My grandmother was screaming, I was hanging on for life!!
We stopped and went back and looked at the beast. It had drag marks across the top of the shell, and there was a big crack running across the width of the shell. He kept going and we watched him crawl under a barbed wire fence headed for a big pond. I was 10 years old, it’s a great memory.
The day a snapping turtle almost totaled my granny’s Ford Pinto!!!
I have stopped to help snappers across the road, but I have pushed them along with a lacrosse stick once and with long stick the other time.
I moved a snapping turtle not long ago...held out a stick, it bit the stick and I was then able to lift the stick with the turtle dangling off the edge and move it. I must have been crazy, but I didn’t want it to get smooshed by a car.
If you think the DRIVER was stunned, what about the turtle ?
Wow. That was a big one. They can be fast on the snap too, and if they get your finger they do some real damage as well.
Or evolving into ass-blasters.....
“Or evolving into ass blasters...”
Bert Gummer can help with that.
I guess that would be an option if I were in the habit of carrying sticks around in the car. But, alas, it never occurred to me to put a stick in the car on the off-chance I would find a snapping turtle in the road that I would want to rescue.
I found a normal turtle in the road once, and that little guy went into my back seat while I drove to a stream where I could release it. Of course, normal turtles don’t bite, they just hide in their shells.
Exactly - I envy his "toolkit"....
I got a turtle while driving a bus one day. I thought it was just a small pile of leaves until I was about ten feet away. With 35 kids in the back, no way I’m swerving at all.
I actually heard the crack when the front tire rolled over it.
“...because they move so slowly that they’re very likely to get run over.”
Which one...the turtle or the “tender-hearted” Samaritan?
(Yes, I too am guilty of stopping and helping creatures across the road.)
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