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Authorities Looking For Person Who Tied Turtle To Balloons
CBSLA.com) ^ | August 22, 2012 11:50 PM

Posted on 08/23/2012 9:00:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: Ezekiel

Oh, memories!


41 posted on 08/23/2012 10:22:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin
Don't turtles withdraw their limbs and head into their shell when they're frightened?

This one didn't seem to do it. Puzzling.

42 posted on 08/23/2012 10:22:39 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: lefty-lie-spy

never did that one lol


43 posted on 08/23/2012 10:24:48 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: KeyLargo

Thanks for making me spit my beer all over the curtains. The animal rights whackos should be very happy over this. The first turtle free flight should be commemorated on a postal stamp!


44 posted on 08/23/2012 10:31:40 AM PDT by gr8eman (Ron Swanson for President!)
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To: BenLurkin
I can still remember their voices, and I haven't even wandered over to Youtube [yet] for a trip down Memory Lane.

Touché Away!

45 posted on 08/23/2012 10:32:40 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: gr8eman

The POTUS had a 'Flying Turtle' once.

46 posted on 08/23/2012 10:49:38 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: BenLurkin

And that is exactly why my parents would cut off their own legs before letting a can of helium in our home in the sixties. A turtle would have been a good start if my brothers and I got ahold of it.


47 posted on 08/23/2012 10:53:50 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am NOT from Vermont. I am from MA. And I don't support Romney. Please read before "assuming.")
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To: BenLurkin

In the early days of the space program all sorts of critters were sent up, including chimpanzees, and a dog. The chimps, we are assured made it back. Not so the dog (USSR). This was a much shorter flight...


48 posted on 08/23/2012 11:10:30 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: HamiltonJay

Mmmmm, coconut frog! With a splash of Jamaican salsa!?! just delicious.


49 posted on 08/23/2012 11:17:59 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: TigersEye

"We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose."

50 posted on 08/23/2012 11:20:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DallasDeb

I know it was cruel, but I can just see in my mind a very curious 9-year old doing an “experiment” without thinking of the consequences to the turtle. He may not have even believed the balloon could cary the turtle’s weight.


That was my first thought, too. How many kids have done silly things to animals without thinking about how it might hurt them. My sister flushed her live fish down the toilet when she was little, and then bawled and bawled when it didn’t swim back. (She said she was putting him on the waterslide or something). This kid might have thought the turtle was going to have fun. Seriously, somewhere a little kid is watching the news and thinking... “They are coming for me and putting me in jail...”

As someone else mentioned, no one put a fire cracker in its shell or anything; this was non-malicious intent, if you ask me.


51 posted on 08/23/2012 11:22:01 AM PDT by Conservaliberty (I've written over 200 pages for a novel. But I didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.)
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To: Conservaliberty

“As God is my witness, I thought that Turtles could fly.”


52 posted on 08/23/2012 11:22:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like something an overly-curious eight year old boy might to.

For sure the kid deserves a talking to. Not 18 months in solitary at Folsom.


53 posted on 08/23/2012 11:23:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: dfwgator

I’ll have a double order of that, some turtle soup and a waffer thin mint please!


54 posted on 08/23/2012 11:26:59 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Buckeye McFrog
For sure the kid deserves a talking to. Not 18 months in solitary at Folsom.

It is sheer insanity to treat the dumb things kids do like capital crimes against the state. That is true abuse perpetrated by highly neurotic adults.

55 posted on 08/23/2012 11:31:52 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Rebelbase

LOL!!! That is too funny. I used to do model rocketry all the time. My sister and I would stick little fisher-price people in the payload. I’m pretty sure a few grasshoppers took the expedition, too. And all of this was under my father’s watchful and exuberant eye. (He only had daughters—so the fact we liked rocketry was one of the only things that saved him from all of the barbie dolls lying around.) We asked my dad to put all kinds of wacky things in the payload, most of which he refused because of simple physics.

Putting a turtle on a ballon is pretty mild compared to lizards in a payload, if you think about the turbulence of it.

But it’s pretty clear that Disney-Pixar is a guilty party in this animal cruelty case. Where do you think they got the idea for ballons????? “Up” will be a banned movie soon.


56 posted on 08/23/2012 11:31:52 AM PDT by Conservaliberty (I've written over 200 pages for a novel. But I didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.)
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To: BenLurkin
There’s lots of agencies for turtles

I learn something every day.

57 posted on 08/23/2012 11:31:52 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
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To: Fundamentally Fair
There’s lots of agencies for turtles

And not enough psychiatrists apparently.

58 posted on 08/23/2012 11:35:03 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: SolidRedState
This story smells fishy, might be some sort of a shell game.
59 posted on 08/23/2012 11:37:55 AM PDT by RavenLooneyToon (Tail gunner Joe was right.)
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To: BenLurkin

or to anyone—this was probably a kid who wanted to give the turtle a ride and had leftover birthday balloons—so while stupid not necessarily malicious—


60 posted on 08/23/2012 12:14:12 PM PDT by lauraw
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