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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: freepun; lost; tortoise
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To: Kartographer

🎶Have a banana, have a whole bunch
You move kinda slow. Now you have lunch
Just eat it. Then beat it
Or beat it. Then eat it. (Shoo!)🎶


21 posted on 07/26/2025 6:22:59 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DallasBiff

This tortoise wouldn’t have needed 16 days to go the distance.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JoiZTGVFRo8


22 posted on 07/26/2025 6:24:49 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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To: DallasBiff

This tortoise wouldn’t have needed 16 days to go the distance.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JoiZTGVFRo8


23 posted on 07/26/2025 6:24:52 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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To: DallasBiff

Actually, it wasn’t lost

The tortoise escaped captivity and was subsequently recaptured


24 posted on 07/26/2025 6:32:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: bert

Escapees could learn a thing or two from the tortoise!


25 posted on 07/26/2025 6:36:48 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DallasBiff

“Meet your Escape and Evasion instructor, Sgt. Rocky Tortoise!l. Sgt. Tortoise survived 16 continuous days loose in an unfamiliar and unfriendly urban environment with no assistance from the locals while avoiding all predators and search parties. Sgt. Tortoise broke cover to reveal his presence at an ice cream parlor—three miles from where he made his escape! Far outside the search area where he was given up for lost! YOU will learn the techniques that Sgt. Tortoise will share with you to make your way in a hostile environment, without assistance, for two weeks or more!”


26 posted on 07/26/2025 6:52:09 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DallasBiff

Trying to imagine a Tortoise “On the loose...”


27 posted on 07/26/2025 7:07:55 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: DallasBiff

Was it a Baskin-Rabbits?


28 posted on 07/26/2025 7:13:26 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: DallasBiff
Shelley, a 20-year-old leopard tortoise

No longer a teenager and a tortoise instead of a turtle, but still very, very ninja.

29 posted on 07/26/2025 8:17:00 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: DallasBiff

Just jonesin’ for a Turtle Sundae!


30 posted on 07/26/2025 8:23:25 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice. Psalm 130)
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To: OldHarbor

“”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.””

“”The boy spotted the tortoise and thought it was a large rock at first.””

That is HOW news gets distorted and rumors start. Just stick to the article as printed!


31 posted on 07/26/2025 8:46:02 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

From their Facebook page

After featuring on BBC spotlight as well as Radio Devon, she was spotted up in one of our fields by Mrs T’s son William this morning!

Stay in your own lane Karen, I swear, some mofos


32 posted on 07/26/2025 9:08:04 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: Thank You Rush
The Orange Elephant Ice cream Parlour's post

You can take it up with them. I can see you trying to call a little boy a liar. Look Abner ! Mrs Kravitz, is that you ?

Any other last words chump ?

Are you calling from Rio Linda today ?

33 posted on 07/26/2025 9:23:49 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: DallasBiff

This episode is worthy of a Japanese horror movie. Plodzilla.


34 posted on 07/26/2025 9:26:20 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: OldHarbor

“”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.””

I bet the little boy can read!!!

Resorting to name calling because that’s all you have!!


35 posted on 07/26/2025 9:51:39 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

Admit it Karen, you have beeen owned.

Rio Linda indeed.


36 posted on 07/26/2025 10:00:07 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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