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.
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.
The snapping turtles in New Hampshire survive frozen lakes just fine. I don't think they'd have any problem in Europe.
Late Friday afternoon ping.
Hey, that was a GHWB/Dan Quayle joke.
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.
Shades of nature doing a "Lorena Bobbitt", hmn!
I hate it when that happens.
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.
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..."
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.
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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)
Oh, stop it. I already ruined one keyboard today...
Buddy had standards. Bubba tried it again and Buddy ran in front of a car instead.
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