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Legend of monster of Laguna Lake comes to life
Orange County Register ^
| 9/10/04
| BARBARA GIASONE
Posted on 09/10/2004 8:21:32 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
FULLERTON Rumors swirled around Laguna Lake for 40 years that a vicious snapping turtle named "Old Bob" lurked beneath its water lilies.
Turns out the talk was not some exaggerated fish tale.
On Thursday, dredging company workers snared the 100-pound snapper near a park dam in the north-central part of the city.
A Santa Monica contractor, hired to scoop out fish during a $2 million restoration of the 7-acre lake, netted the 50-year-old, 36-inch alligator snapping turtle along with catfish, crappie and bluegills.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: California
KEYWORDS: cryptobiology; godsgravesglyphs; lakemonsters; lochness; paleontology; strangesightings; turtle
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A real life lake monster from my home town! Hey, it's the OC, what did 'ya expect, a plesiosaur?
To: SoCal Pubbie
ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE
Latin name: Macroclemys temmincki
Size: Upper shell can be more than 26 inches long
Record weight: 219 pounds
Habitat: Deep-water rivers, lakes, sloughs; occasionally found in brackish waters
Range: East Texas to Florida panhandle; north to Iowa and Indiana
Characteristics: Largest freshwater turtle in the world; has pink, worm-like structure on its tongue used as fishing lure to attract prey; massive head with strongly hooked beak; very long tail; carapace is gray or brown and serrated.
Source: The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles & Amphibians
To: SoCal Pubbie
There is a much more ferocious looking photo on the front page of the paper. Weird looking thing!
To: SoCal Pubbie
> Read more at ocregister.com ...
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I didn't bother, nor check bugmenot.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:26:27 AM PDT
by
Boundless
To: SoCal Pubbie
"Luke, fetch me my rifle"
"Yes Sir, Boss"
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:30:30 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(Illegitumi non carborundum)
To: SoCal Pubbie; WestCoastGal
Heck that's a baby compared to the ones We used to see in Houston in the drainage ditches.
Better keep an eye on the Jack-A-Roo!
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:30:38 AM PDT
by
ChefKeith
(Life is GREAT with CoCo..........NASCAR...everything else is just a game!(Except War & Love))
To: SoCal Pubbie
I've got a great recipe!
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:30:49 AM PDT
by
FreedomFarmer
(Less carrot, more STICK!)
To: SoCal Pubbie
Beautiful creature!
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:31:04 AM PDT
by
StoneColdGOP
(Nothing is Bush's fault... Nothing is Bush's fault... Nothing is Bush's fault...)
To: SoCal Pubbie
Wow. His shell really looks like armor.
To: ChefKeith
Of course, everything's bigger in Texas.
To: SoCal Pubbie
Any bets that the envrio-nazis will demand that this turtle be returned to it's former home??
To: socal_parrot
"Ol' Man Bob", at first I thought they were talking about you, but then I saw the picture.
You don't have any of those in your pond do you?
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:36:59 AM PDT
by
OC_Steve
(Choc-full-o-nuts is that heavenly coffee, better coffee a millionaire's money can't buy)
To: SoCal Pubbie
For now, the transplanted Fullerton resident will be heavily fed with chicken, rodents, shrimp, fish and smelt, then placed in double burlap bags and hosed down until his transcontinental journey. "We will put him in a pet carrier, then in a crate to be shipped on a red-eye flight in the cool night air," Paquette said.
I am very happy that I will not behind all this at the securtiy inspection line when the turtle flys. Funny thing is that they will take away your nail clippers but not your 100 pound snapping turtle! But it is nice to see hat the turtle gets the same airline food as the regular pasengers.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:37:25 AM PDT
by
pikachu
(The REAL script)
To: An.American.Expatriate
Actually, it looks like that's what they are going to do anyway.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:38:03 AM PDT
by
StoneColdGOP
(Nothing is Bush's fault... Nothing is Bush's fault... Nothing is Bush's fault...)
To: Boundless
You didn't miss all that much. The story tells how the lake is being worked on to reduce decaying vegetation at the bottom. The lake is actually a reservoir created in 1916 for irrigation of the nearby Bastanchury Ranch. In fact, my family, old timers in Fullerton, still called it Bastanchury Lake. That's pronounced Bass-in-cherry, not Bast-an-chury, by the way. Talks about how the critter lives, and how they're shipping it back east to a reptile preserve, and chronicles some run ins with "Old Bob" over the years.
To: SoCal Pubbie
Looks a little like Helen Thomas.
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:49:26 AM PDT
by
Callahan
To: pikachu
LOL, "same food as regular airline passengers "
I'm flying this weekend
To: SoCal Pubbie; SortaBichy
Hmmm...Orange County....."vicious snapping turtle named "Old Bob" "
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posted on
09/10/2004 8:59:32 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)
To: SoCal Pubbie
They make great pets!
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posted on
09/10/2004 9:01:05 AM PDT
by
evets
(God bless president George W. Bush)
To: Boundless
Use the following, it works:
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posted on
09/10/2004 9:06:37 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(God is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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