They may walk slow but snapping turtles have long necks and they are fast with the jaws. I guess that’s why they are called “snapping turtles”.
He’s luck it didn’t get him. They won’t let go until it thunders.
I saw a HUGE snapper on the side of the road a couple of weeks ago. It was easily twice the size of the one in the photo. The legs on this critter were bigger than my forearms. I wish I’d have had my camera. I dubbed it a “Tennessee Triceratops”. I caught a smaller one, about the size of a dinner plate, last week that was making it’s way towards one of my ponds. I managed to get her in to a bucket with a shovel, all while her jaws were snapping away. I put her in the river on the other side of the property. You don’t want them in your fish ponds. They will wreak havoc on the fish in a small pond.