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Lost tortoise turns up at ice cream parlor after 16 days on the loose
UPI ^
| 7/25/25
| Ben Hooper
Posted on 07/26/2025 5:15:24 AM PDT by DallasBiff
July 25 (UPI) -- A tortoise who escaped from her family's home in England was found more than two weeks later outside an ice cream parlor nearly 3 miles from home.
Shelley, a 20-year-old leopard tortoise, escaped from outside her family's home in Shillingford Abbot, near Exeter, on July 9.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: freepun; lost; tortoise
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How does one lose a tortoise? Was it in a race with a rabbit?
Known people who had snakes and tarantulas as pets, those I can see escaping.
Have fun its Saturday.
To: DallasBiff
That headline made me click.
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:27:19 AM PDT
by
cdcdawg
(The Left should cry harder.)
To: DallasBiff; The Spirit Of Allegiance; SunkenCiv; Rennes Templar; ProtectOurFreedom
Not only was Shelley's journey a Rocky Road...
"She was spotted by the farmer who thought she was a big rock," owner Nick Phillips told the BBC. "Luckily, he realized rocks don't usually move and gave us a call."
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:28:38 AM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
To: DallasBiff
As the tortoise was being hauled away from the at ice cream parlor it reportedly called out, ‘I Shell Return!’
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:29:12 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other, Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
To: DallasBiff
Is the Turtle’s name Slow Joe?
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:31:01 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: DallasBiff
It had gone a total of 4 feet lol
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:31:03 AM PDT
by
Bob434
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: IYAS9YAS
Sorry. Tortoise. Not turtle.
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:31:44 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: Kartographer
The owners are shellebrating
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:33:12 AM PDT
by
Bob434
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: DallasBiff
Clapping madly! Hope the thread stays live for a while. Nice to wake up to this.
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:36:24 AM PDT
by
mairdie
To: DallasBiff
Starring in his own Sci fi movie, Turtle Recall.
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:37:17 AM PDT
by
Bob434
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
To: DallasBiff
Did the turtle ask for magic shell.
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:42:06 AM PDT
by
central_va
(The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: DallasBiff
“Don’t mind me. Just muddlin’ through…”
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:43:38 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: DallasBiff
Leopard tortoise? Heard they’re the fastest of all the tortoises. And they ain’t no cheetahs!
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:45:27 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: DallasBiff
“A scoop of strawberry, please. Watermelon if you have it. Take your time. I’m in no hurry.”
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:49:07 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
“Don’t worry. I got the lettuce.”
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posted on
07/26/2025 5:49:35 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
The shop wouldn’t give the tortoise any ice creme they thought it might be bad for him, but they did give him a banana and told him to split.
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posted on
07/26/2025 6:02:28 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other, Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
To: DallasBiff
Mitch is somewhat annoyed: “I am not ‘lost’, nor am I in any urgent pursuit of ice cream, regardless of the flavor. I don’t know how this rumor got started!”
To: DallasBiff
The boy spotted the tortoise and thought it was a large rock at first.
To: BradyLS
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posted on
07/26/2025 6:14:31 AM PDT
by
DallasBiff
(Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: DallasBiff
I scream.
You scream.
Tortoise likes ice cream.
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posted on
07/26/2025 6:18:50 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(My mom is half French. Her mother and father are French, but she lost her legs in a car accident.)
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