Hmmm...I don't quite see it.
Posted on 03/19/2005 9:35:52 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
MICHIGANTOWN, Ind. (AP) -- The owner of a turtle that was the only survivor of a pet shop fire says he sees an image of Satan's face on its shell.
"The marking on the shell was like the devil wanted us to know he was down there," Bryan Dora said. "To me, it's too coincidental that the only thing to come out unscathed would have this image on it."
The palm-sized red-eared slider turtle, named Lucky, was the only animal to survive a fire last October at Dora's A-Dora-ble Pet Shop in nearby Frankfort, about 40 miles northwest of Indianapolis.
Dora and others can spot lips, eyes, a goatee, shoulders and a pair of pointy horns on Lucky's back.
The image was not visible before the fire, and Dora speculates the intense heat might have caused the shell's color to change. The turtle is healthy and there was no change in its behavior, he said.
Dora has produced a DVD of the turtle's survival story and the pet shop's history, including footage of the fire. He titled the DVD "The Pet Shop Story of Lucky the Turtle."
He planned to auction the video on the Internet. He said he will offer the winning bidder the opportunity to buy Lucky offline.
The cause of the fire that destroyed nine businesses and offices in the 1912 building in downtown Frankfort has not been determined.
"Turtles can hold their breath quite awhile," Dora said. "He may have taken one breath just before and held it through the fire. Except that the fire went on and on for hours."
Well, the grill cheese thing worked, maybe this will too.
Hmmm...I don't quite see it.
Just reading the title, I knew there was an eBay auction in there somewhere.
....they were clouds
actually if you turn him around the other way, it looks like a little turtle on his shell..those yellow streaks are his legs and the small round bit is his head...precious!
How can he be so sure that's what Satan looks like? For all we know, that's just a cartoon representation.
I see it. But it looks like a donkey face to me. Hmmmm... Donkeys...Satan. I guess they do have something in common.
LOL...sweeeeeet!
I thought it looked like the laughing cow.
reminds me of the koi fish picture.
Burning turtle shell was a way of fortune-telling in China more than 3,000 years ago. The pattern of cracks on turtle shells after being heated up would be interpreted by priests to tell a fortune.
I hope this turtle shell does not foretell anything ominous.:)
Thanks for the info. Way cool!
ROTFLMAO
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