[texas booster]

"Seeing [the turtle] in person is totally different than seeing it in a picture or video," Broomhall admitted. "I mean photos and stuff like that don't make justice to how big his head was and how big his mouth and body was. My hand, from the tip of my pinky to the tip of my thumb measures nine inches, and it still wasn't big enough to cover his head."

[texas booster]

That is one big turtle ...

[Fai Mao]

One of the reasons you do not swim in Texas lakes and rivers

[texas booster]

Justin Broomhall said the alligator snapping turtle's head was bigger than his hand.

Memo to self - do not put my hand anywhere near this alligator turtle's head.

[Jim W N]

Why does it seem like the lakes and rivers east of the Rockies have monsters whereas west of the Rockies lakes and rivers seem comparatively benign?

[crusty old prospector]

That’s a whopper.

[UNGN]

The Stuff of Nightmares, right there.

On wrong move and your new knickname is “Hook”.

[lee martell]

The Fisherman is very lucky Old Senor Tortillo didn’t snap his hand off with that beak. That is a huge and heavy beast.
Little Junior wanted nothing to do with that dinosaur looking animal.
Best part after the pictures were taken and the fishing hook was removed from the turtle, was to read that the animal was set free afterward.

*Wonder what all that black stuff was coating the tops and sides of turtles’ head? Maybe it is what it looks like, mold.

[Clay Moore]

A buddy of mine tells me alligator snappers are good eating.

[43north]

Sign him up for the Border Patrol and release him in the Rio Grande with much fanfare and news stories!

[ConservativeMind]

That is just a little bit bigger than what we (rarely) caught in our family’s lake, when I was a kid.

I had no idea the age could have been so high, but they tasted good.

[Track9]

Looks like maxine waters.

[Ezekiel]

"My three-year-old son started panicking. He thought it was a dinosaur and kept saying, 'Let it go. Let it go. Put it back!'"

Perhaps not the first time he said that!

[Chainmail]

I hesitate to mention this, but I saw a bigger one, walking down the middle of the street on the Quantico Marine Corps base in 2006 or so. It was huge, the shell was about 3 feet across, the head was about 9 inches long.

It walked to the Chopawamsic creek as it forms a shallow lake leading into the Potomac River and nobody tried to get in its way. Looked like a dinosaur.

[Who is John Galt?]

Murder Turtle! Run For Your Life!!

[Irenic]

Boy that’s ugly and it looks like it would smell horrible. Ick.

[LibertyWoman]

Should have killed it

[HereInTheHeartland]

“The turtle weighed around 200 lbs and was likely over a 100 years old, angler Justin Broomhall estimated.“

The turtle is said to have voted a straight Democrat ticket in every election since 1922.

[Travis McGee]

That monster would snap your arm clean off. Gone.

[Mashood]

Kinda looks like Stacey Abrams, though smarter.

[Paal Gulli]

Snapping Turtle Sauce Piquante

Tastes like crocagator.