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Driver Stunned When Turtle Comes Crashing Through Her Windshield
KFOR ^ | MAY 13, 2016 | K. QUERRY

Posted on 05/14/2016 8:57:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway

It’s something that you likely would never expect while driving down the highway.

However, Nicole Bjanes says she is lucky to be alive after a freak accident along I-4 in Orlando earlier this week.

Bjanes told WESH that a vehicle in front of her ran over a turtle in the middle lane of the highway.

Somehow, the turtle ended up crashing through her windshield, hitting the passenger’s seat and coming to rest on the dashboard.

Bjanes walked away with just a few cuts.

Amazingly, the turtle survived and appeared to be uninjured.

Emergency crews looked it over before releasing it into a nearby pond.


TOPICS: Local News; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: accident; caraccident; floriduh; turtle
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To: RegulatorCountry

So do I and it saddens me to see someone intentionally swerve to hit an animal.


21 posted on 05/14/2016 10:19:46 PM PDT by kalee
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To: nickcarraway

I’m guessing it jumped off of a fence post...


22 posted on 05/14/2016 10:24:24 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: doorgunner69

In CT, you’d be arrested and your house & car confiscated.


23 posted on 05/14/2016 10:30:43 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: nickcarraway
It looks like it might be a painted, maybe red slider, it being Florida.

I love to paddle up to a log where there are a dozen or more sunning themselves ... and ploop....they all slide into the water in unison. Sweet critters.


24 posted on 05/14/2016 10:39:00 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: HerrBlucher; RegulatorCountry
WWTD


25 posted on 05/14/2016 10:44:33 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: kalee

I hate people who would deliberately drive over a turtle. I like turtles, although I would not want a snapping turtle take a bite out of me. I have carried little turtles that were in the middle of the road. Once I came upon this big old turtle in the middle of the road. I stopped and got out of the car (it was not a busy road). As I approached the turtle, it made an angry hissing sound. I backed off and fortunately I guess I annoyed the turtle enough that it started walking away and it got itself off the road.


26 posted on 05/14/2016 10:58:40 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Daffynition

If such a creature exists outside of Photoshop, I’d leave it alone, lol.


27 posted on 05/14/2016 11:06:27 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Robert DeLong

“The turtle was too small to go on the Disney rides, “

As a teenager, my buddy and I caught snapping turtlles, butchered them and sold the meat to delis in Cleveland. The biggest one we caught was 48 pounds.


28 posted on 05/15/2016 12:17:12 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: RegulatorCountry
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em


29 posted on 05/15/2016 12:24:34 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: exDemMom

True story:
Back in the early 70’s, I was riding with my granny in her Ford Pinto heading home on a Texas dirt road. We came around a corner and there was a HUGE snapping turtle in the road. Granny held onto the wheel and drove over the monster. We almost high centered on the monster. My grandmother was screaming, I was hanging on for life!!
We stopped and went back and looked at the beast. It had drag marks across the top of the shell, and there was a big crack running across the width of the shell. He kept going and we watched him crawl under a barbed wire fence headed for a big pond. I was 10 years old, it’s a great memory.
The day a snapping turtle almost totaled my granny’s Ford Pinto!!!


30 posted on 05/15/2016 1:00:05 AM PDT by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: berdie

I have stopped to help snappers across the road, but I have pushed them along with a lacrosse stick once and with long stick the other time.


31 posted on 05/15/2016 1:29:23 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: exDemMom

I moved a snapping turtle not long ago...held out a stick, it bit the stick and I was then able to lift the stick with the turtle dangling off the edge and move it. I must have been crazy, but I didn’t want it to get smooshed by a car.


32 posted on 05/15/2016 2:38:31 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: nickcarraway
Driver Stunned When Turtle Comes Crashing Through Her Windshield

If you think the DRIVER was stunned, what about the turtle ?

33 posted on 05/15/2016 3:54:14 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Wow. That was a big one. They can be fast on the snap too, and if they get your finger they do some real damage as well.


34 posted on 05/15/2016 4:21:53 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: George Washington Axe
Because of climate change, turtles are evolving wings

Or evolving into ass-blasters.....

35 posted on 05/15/2016 4:34:42 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

“Or evolving into ass blasters...”

Bert Gummer can help with that.


36 posted on 05/15/2016 5:01:21 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Barackolypse How?)
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To: freepertoo

I guess that would be an option if I were in the habit of carrying sticks around in the car. But, alas, it never occurred to me to put a stick in the car on the off-chance I would find a snapping turtle in the road that I would want to rescue.

I found a normal turtle in the road once, and that little guy went into my back seat while I drove to a stream where I could release it. Of course, normal turtles don’t bite, they just hide in their shells.


37 posted on 05/15/2016 5:04:16 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: MikeSteelBe
Bert Gummer can help with that.

Exactly - I envy his "toolkit"....

38 posted on 05/15/2016 5:11:50 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I got a turtle while driving a bus one day. I thought it was just a small pile of leaves until I was about ten feet away. With 35 kids in the back, no way I’m swerving at all.

I actually heard the crack when the front tire rolled over it.


39 posted on 05/15/2016 5:15:28 AM PDT by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

“...because they move so slowly that they’re very likely to get run over.”

Which one...the turtle or the “tender-hearted” Samaritan?

(Yes, I too am guilty of stopping and helping creatures across the road.)


40 posted on 05/15/2016 6:04:15 AM PDT by moovova
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