Turtles crawl on runway, delay flights at JFK

AP-Yahoo! ^ | 10 July 2009 | DAVID B. CARUSO

[greatdefender]

NEW YORK – A runway at New York City's Kennedy Airport was shut down Wednesday morning after 78 turtles emerged from the bay and crawled onto the tarmac.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says grounds crews rounded up the wayward reptiles in about 35 minutes and deposited them back in the water, further from airport property.

The shutdown disrupted flight schedules, though, with delays climbing to nearly 1 1/2 hours.

Pilots reported the first turtle sightings at around 8:30 a.m.

The Port Authority identified the turtles as Diamondback Terrapins. They appeared to be about 8 inches long and weigh 2 to 3 pounds each.

[devane617]

I bet they were headed to Washington. Or, maybe, just maybe, they were spy turtles.

[Aroostook25]

Turtles would do nasty things to jet engine turbines. Jet engines are vacuum cleaners to anything on the pavement in front of them.

[jessduntno]

Were any found on posts?

[xcamel]

old news..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Turtles

[rabidralph]

[DoughtyOne]

You ever get the feeling the Democrats are crawling on the national runway?


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[WorkingClassFilth]

A joke . . .

Two government workers decide to finish the day and head back to their base. They climb into the truck cab and, suddenly, the driver says: ‘Damn! Wait a minute!’ He gets out of the cab, grabs a tire iron from under the seat and heads for the back of the truck. His wondering partner looks in the side mirror to see what is going on. He sees the other guy walk back to a turtle on the road shoulder behind the truck and begin to beat it to a pulp. When he’s finished, he kicks the gore into a ditch and heads back to the truck. When he climbs in his partners asks ‘What the heck was that all about?’ The drive replies angrily ‘That SOB has been spying and following us all day long!’

[Battle Axe]

Obama voters finally getting to the free transportation to the polls.

[SoKatt]

LOL! That was cute- thanks!
Love the tagline, btw.

[linn37]

I like turtles.

[TXnMA]

FOD call to the flightline!

[WorkingClassFilth]

You’re welcome! Or, as turtles say:

[GladesGuru]

Diamondback Terrapins - YUM ! ! !

They were a delicacy when America was yet to be founded.

5 gets you 10 that a number were ‘diverted’, to a warm round body of water with an unnatural spice level.

[tlb]

The headline I’d have written:

JFK RUNWAY SHELLED

[greatdefender]

The headline I’d have written:

JFK RUNWAY SHELLED

Solution: Apply Turtle Wax!

[exit82]

If this happened in Chicago, the headline would read:

“The Turtle and O’Hare”