“I will use any opportunity to defend the defenseless.”
I’d say the turtles are pretty defenseless here.
I agree with you totally about abortions. I’m also pro-Second Amendment, as well as pro-the other 9. But you are not advancing your efforts by trying to tie EVERY discussion into the same topic. If we did, we should change the entire Free Republic Forum into just an anti-abortion forum.
One day I came upon a huge snapper in Vermont in the middle of my lane. He was more than knee high (I'm 6"1") and over 3 feet in diameter.
I immediately set a road flare before the curve I'd just come around.
Had the same experience as an earlier poster with it snapping off a broom handle.
It just wanted to remain in the road. Finally enough people stopped so 3 of us could shove it off the road.
It was amazingly fast, lunging at us to try to snap us.
I have run over thousands of toads on Guam during mating season. You can't miss the huge things, they pave the road like moving cobblestone during mating season.
Despite probably huge amounts killed by vehicles there seemed to be an endless supply of them.
In all that driving, I've hit 2 deer, last year. A black bear and I hit each other. I saw him coming at a diagonal at about 40 MPH toward where I was going to be. I slowed from 50 to 40 and went across the oncoming lane and into the other breakdown lane to try to avoid him. No traffic, a mile strait in front. He ran into our right front fender and tire and the rear tire went over him, spinning him back across the highway into the ditch.
Somewhere on one of my web sites there's the pic I took of him laying there twitching at my feet, he was probably around 300 pounds.
Our daughter and a friend were in a car behind us, so they stayed to watch the bear while my wife and I went for a game warden. Couldn't get one, when we got back the girls said as soon as we went around the corner the bear got up and bolted into the woods.
I never got the front fender fixed as the cracks with the bear fur stuffed in them looked neat. The rear wheel alignment was off so far it took the max shimming possible to re-align it.
Somehow I've had over 3000 moose encounters and haven't hit any yet.
Couldn't avoid a blacksnake in Pennsylvania as it stretched from in the oncoming lane to the guardrail on the right. There was a very noticable thump-thump as we went over it. In the mirror you could see the two flat spots in it. It was on a corner with oncoming traffic.
For some reason, two foxes have run into my hubcaps.
Have managed to miss several Pine Martens.
It is obvious that you have not read all of my posts here at free republic... if you had you would know that I have not posted about abortion in “EVERY” discussion. In fact far from it. Before you make an accusation you should have your facts straight.