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 ...
🎶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!)🎶
This tortoise wouldn’t have needed 16 days to go the distance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JoiZTGVFRo8
This tortoise wouldn’t have needed 16 days to go the distance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JoiZTGVFRo8
Actually, it wasn’t lost
The tortoise escaped captivity and was subsequently recaptured
Escapees could learn a thing or two from the tortoise!
“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!”
Trying to imagine a Tortoise “On the loose...”
Was it a Baskin-Rabbits?
No longer a teenager and a tortoise instead of a turtle, but still very, very ninja.
Just jonesin’ for a Turtle Sundae!
“”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!
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
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 ?
This episode is worthy of a Japanese horror movie. Plodzilla.
“”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!!
Admit it Karen, you have beeen owned.
Rio Linda indeed.
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