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Man finds turtle with son's initials on it [after 47 years]
UPI.com ^ | May 5, 2012 | staff reporter

Posted on 05/06/2012 3:25:51 AM PDT by Daffynition

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'Round here, box turtles are protected...and you'd probably be arrested and fined.


1 posted on 05/06/2012 3:25:53 AM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

Around here we plink them with .22’s by the hundreds.


2 posted on 05/06/2012 3:28:56 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: SJackson
Give credit where credit is due.


3 posted on 05/06/2012 3:29:16 AM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: DainBramage
Box turtles? I can't imagine doing that...they are among the prettiest and sweetest critters in the woodlands. :(


4 posted on 05/06/2012 3:31:53 AM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: DainBramage

Why?


5 posted on 05/06/2012 3:42:56 AM PDT by panaxanax (Voting 'Third Party' will ensure a Communist-Marxist-Socialist dominated Supreme Court!)
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To: Daffynition

Young Jeff should have had hit bottom whooped.


6 posted on 05/06/2012 3:44:33 AM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: panaxanax

Cause there so fast and elusive but more so,
This is why...DainBramage


7 posted on 05/06/2012 3:49:58 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: panaxanax

Harmless critters.


8 posted on 05/06/2012 3:53:11 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Daffynition

47 years...That’s almost as long as massive alcoholic, 3rd world immigrant enabler and woman drowner Ted Kennedy was Senator.


9 posted on 05/06/2012 4:06:40 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Daffynition

They probably weren’t protected 40 years or so ago when the initials were carved in it.


10 posted on 05/06/2012 4:09:42 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: cripplecreek; t1b8zs; DainBramage

“Harmless critters.”

I’m gonna’ give DainBramage the benefit of the doubt and say that he posted without thinking. We’ve all done that in the past.

If that’s not the case, then he’s got a serious ‘manhood’ issue to deal with.

Nobody will deny that they make easy “targets”, sitting out there on a log basking in the sun......for a ten year-old kid that just got his first .22 for his birthday, that is.


11 posted on 05/06/2012 4:17:19 AM PDT by panaxanax (Voting 'Third Party' will ensure a Communist-Marxist-Socialist dominated Supreme Court!)
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To: Daffynition

I got Box turtle that live just behind my property.... for the past 3 years I have had remove it from my yard as my dog thinks its great fun to play catch and fetch with... no doubt I will have to do so again this year... And yes I know its the same box turtle, my son decorated the edge of its shell with a silver sharpy marker the first year we found it.


12 posted on 05/06/2012 5:13:39 AM PDT by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: panaxanax
Because in our stock tanks there are hundreds of turtles . You guys obviously didnt grow up in Texas. lol.

We actually shoot them when they pop thier heads up out of the water. Much harder to do than you think.

13 posted on 05/06/2012 5:17:22 AM PDT by DainBramage
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BS

Many years ago I worked on a large cattle ranch and we also had stock tanks. They were about 3’ high and made of corregated metal.

Climbing turtles? C’mon, my FRiend, we’re not that stupid. Besides that, I would think that the rotting carcasses of “...hundreds of turtles” would poison the well, so to speak.


14 posted on 05/06/2012 6:01:07 AM PDT by panaxanax (Voting 'Third Party' will ensure a Communist-Marxist-Socialist dominated Supreme Court!)
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Climbing turtles? C’mon, my FRiend, we’re not that stupid. Besides that, I would think that the rotting carcasses of “...hundreds of turtles” would poison the well, so to speak.

You must be that stupid and never been out west. Stock tanks and ponds are the same,, DUH

15 posted on 05/06/2012 6:17:59 AM PDT by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: DainBramage

I honestly can’t think of a reason I’d shoot a turtle.

They’re one of the good guys.


16 posted on 05/06/2012 6:41:18 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
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To: panaxanax
Its not like you shoot hundreds at once Ever try fishing and everything you throw out there gets eaten by turtles before a fish can get to it?

And there literally are hundreds of them. BTW what is a climbing turtle?

17 posted on 05/06/2012 7:03:33 AM PDT by DainBramage
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Those are snappers in the tanks- they are a pest species, and can be quite dangerous. Everybody shoots them. I once saw one in the middle of a road near a lake that was big enough to be a traffic hazard- and two teenage girls standing right by it wanting to help it. I pulled up and told them to get away from the thing before they lost some fingers or toes- and then called the cops to get animal control out there and dispose of the thing.

This article is about a box turtle- they are a harmless, helpful species, and nobody shoots them. In fact, if I see one in the road, I’ll pull over and put it off the road.


18 posted on 05/06/2012 7:34:48 AM PDT by TexasBarak (He who pays the least- wins!)
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Well then, obviously you are unknowing about tortoises and turtles. Must be one of them city slickers who come out in the country and shoot at everything.

The story is about tortoise “Box Turtle” not what those of in Texas know is the water turtle called a “slider”.

Secondly, its pretty lame to be shooting a rifle at a low angle on the water, the damn 22 can fly a mile from glancing off water surface. Want to shoot, go to a range, we don't need to be dodging your whizzing ricochet bullets every weekend!

19 posted on 05/06/2012 8:38:30 AM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: panaxanax

In West Texas they call a pond a “stock tank”, even though lots of ranches do have a “steel or concrete tank” next to a windmill for cattle.


20 posted on 05/06/2012 8:42:47 AM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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