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Snapping Turtle Bit Boy's Penis
Annnova.com ^ | 6/24/2005 | Staff Writers

Posted on 06/24/2005 1:52:17 PM PDT by ex-Texan

Police divers are hunting a snapping turtle that bit a 15-year-old boy on the penis in an alpine lake.

They believe the turtle had probably been dumped in the lake at Grossweil in Bavaria by its owner after it got too big for its tank.

They say the animals, that are natives to North America and are illegal to own in Germany, usually avoid human contact unless cornered.

They are puzzled as to why the turtle should have attacked the teenage swimmer.

The boy was bitten through the swimming trunks on his private parts and then bitten again on the hand as he tried to scramble out of the water.

He realised what it was that was attacking him when the turtle latched onto his finger, leaving a deep wound that needed several stitches.

Snapping turtles can reach a weight of six stone and live for 80 years, but police believe that if they failed to catch the latest turtle escapee it will not survive through the winter when the lake freezes over.

Despite the hot weather locals have been avoiding the lake since the incident, but so far there has been no further sign of the turtle and the hunt by police divers has been unsuccessful.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: bavaria; eviceration; germany; hatewhenthathappens; lake; ouch; snappingturtle; swimming; turtle
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1 posted on 06/24/2005 1:52:18 PM PDT by ex-Texan
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To: ex-Texan

Not even funny. I had one of those suckers bite through a 3/4 inch cane pole when I was a boy.

And I liked that pole.


2 posted on 06/24/2005 1:53:21 PM PDT by warchild9
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To: ex-Texan

The snapping turtles in New Hampshire survive frozen lakes just fine. I don't think they'd have any problem in Europe.


3 posted on 06/24/2005 1:54:01 PM PDT by Meldrim
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To: Junior

Late Friday afternoon ping.


4 posted on 06/24/2005 1:55:04 PM PDT by cjshapi
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To: ex-Texan
Snapping turtles can reach a weight of six stone

Looks like he just picked up another "stone"!
5 posted on 06/24/2005 1:56:58 PM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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To: ex-Texan

Hey, that was a GHWB/Dan Quayle joke.


6 posted on 06/24/2005 1:57:05 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: ex-Texan

Maybe they should quietly poison the lake with something which will not last too long, or try to stun a bejesus out of everything in the lake, either electrically or explosively.


7 posted on 06/24/2005 1:57:45 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: ex-Texan

Shades of nature doing a "Lorena Bobbitt", hmn!


8 posted on 06/24/2005 1:57:45 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: ex-Texan

I hate it when that happens.


9 posted on 06/24/2005 1:58:22 PM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel (Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
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To: ex-Texan
Why I will never EVER skinny dip in a pond.
10 posted on 06/24/2005 1:59:49 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Meldrim

European research is "unique" by comparison to the US.

But yeah,...no smarmy remarks or snide comments about the boy from this section of the peanut gallery. I hope he makes a full recovery.


11 posted on 06/24/2005 1:59:54 PM PDT by incredulous joe ("We got heaps and heaps of what we sow.")
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To: leadpenny
Naaah! A Bill Clinton joke . . .


12 posted on 06/24/2005 1:59:59 PM PDT by ex-Texan (Mathew 7:1 through 6)
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To: ex-Texan

This has to be a fake...remember:

"One day swimmin' cross Turtle Creek
man, them snappers all around my feet
sure was hard swimmin' cross that thing
with both hands holdin my dingalingaling..."


13 posted on 06/24/2005 2:01:29 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Meldrim

We have a couple of snappers in our neighborhood pond. A few years ago the neighbors put a couple of domestic ducks in it and they didn't last a month. We found one up in the woods dying with a leg bitten off. A week later we found the other one with it's head all mangled.

I ocasionally hook one while fishing down there. A plastic worm looks like it was cut with a red hot razor when they get ahold of it.


14 posted on 06/24/2005 2:02:22 PM PDT by Wristpin ( Varitek says to A-Rod: "We don't throw at .260 hitters.....")
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To: ex-Texan

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15 posted on 06/24/2005 2:02:40 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: ex-Texan
When we were boy scouts, our summer camp lake had snapping turtles so that thought was always in the back of our minds. One time the ranger caught a turtle and it snapped a canoe paddle in half!

I feel sorry for the kid, his (sex) life is probably ruined.
16 posted on 06/24/2005 2:06:02 PM PDT by Coleus (I support ethical, effective and safe stem cell research and use: adult, umbilical cord, bone marrow)
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To: rlmorel
Let's see - bitten in your private parts by an animal that doesn't exist exist on your continent.

I'd say that God is very, very displeased with something that you've done. (Usually he just makes hair grow on the palms of your hands)

17 posted on 06/24/2005 2:06:12 PM PDT by lOKKI (You can ignore reality until it bites you in the ass.)
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To: lOKKI

Oh, stop it. I already ruined one keyboard today...


18 posted on 06/24/2005 2:07:04 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: ex-Texan

Buddy had standards. Bubba tried it again and Buddy ran in front of a car instead.


19 posted on 06/24/2005 2:10:35 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: ex-Texan
OUCH!!!!

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20 posted on 06/24/2005 2:13:26 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher ( What was the best thing before sliced bread?)
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