I would normally stop to pick up a turtle and move it out of the road, but the last turtle I saw looked suspiciously like a snapping turtle. Nope, that dude’s on his own.
I saw a guy a couple of years ago helping a snapper out of the road. I wanted to say “Stop...don’t do it!!”
That turtle stretched out his neck and latched on to the guy’s arm and wouldn’t let go.
Poor guy.
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 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.