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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: trebb
Oh that happened in the 1960s with Gamera.


41 posted on 05/15/2016 6:10:00 AM PDT by xp38
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To: nickcarraway; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks nickcarraway.
...a vehicle in front of her ran over a turtle in the middle lane of the highway... ended up crashing through her windshield, hitting the passenger’s seat and coming to rest on the dashboard... survived and appeared to be uninjured.
When I was a kid we ran over an adult snapping turtle, on hard pavement, 1960s highway speed; the old man backed up, got the still feisty bastard (the turtle, not dad, although...) to grab hold of the end of a window scraper (wood handle), and frisbeed him off into the adjacent marsh. They're tough (snapping turtles, not marshes).


42 posted on 05/15/2016 9:40:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: Robert DeLong

We usedto catch them over 20 pounds all the time. They’ll take your finger off easily/


43 posted on 05/15/2016 10:05:26 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
Said they patched them up all the time, most often due to encounters with lawn mowers.

The dog or the turtle?

44 posted on 05/15/2016 10:10:43 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yeah that is what I thought, but wasn’t sure. I have caught a couple of them but I always returned them to water and let them go. One came very close to actually getting me, LOL.


45 posted on 05/15/2016 11:27:59 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: nickcarraway

She was lucky.

I wouldn’t want a deer - or a moose collision.

I once hit a deer broadside man - it just flew over the roof after it dented the front hood.

Weirdest thing I saw in my life.


46 posted on 05/15/2016 12:43:00 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: exDemMom

I found a stick on the side of the road. They were sort of everywhere. Trees, y’know.


47 posted on 05/15/2016 2:55:36 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: freepertoo

Sure, there are trees on the side of the road... right behind the buildings...


48 posted on 05/15/2016 4:16:24 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

Beg pardon?


49 posted on 05/15/2016 4:27:31 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: freepertoo
Sorry, I was responding to your comment but I didn't copy/paste your comment. It was a lapse on my part, I usually copy/paste so that the other person knows what I'm referring to.

Your comment: I found a stick on the side of the road. They were sort of everywhere. Trees, y’know.

to which I responded: Sure, there are trees on the side of the road... right behind the buildings...

Which I said because there are not always sticks around when you need to move a snapping turtle.

50 posted on 05/15/2016 4:38:28 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

Ah. Well, good thing is, it doesn’t happen often. ;-D


51 posted on 05/15/2016 4:50:03 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: RegulatorCountry
I admit I once stopped on a busy highway and helped a turtle across.

It must have helped my karma because a few day later I found a $100 bill on the floor of a bar, and I lost my clip on sunglasses in a large open space preserve and returned the next day, and found them!

As an aside I have a new musical obsession: Covers of rock and heavy metal songs performed by bluegrass-type people. It's a lot of fun, and Pandora linked me to this odd/interesting band called Trampled by Turtles.

52 posted on 05/16/2016 12:58:23 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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