[Dysart]

This file photo released by the Ventura, Calif., Police Department, Friday, July 13, 2007, shows Bob, an endangered African spurred tortoise, who was slashed, stabbed and mutilated after being stolen Saturday from his home in Ventura. The 42-pound pet tortoise is home Friday, Aug. 17, 2007 following more than a month in a rehabilitation center. The tortoise, Bob, heartily ate a meal of hibiscus flowers and roses, its first since having a feeding tube pulled from its neck, owner Dorothy Sullivan said Friday. (AP Photo/Ventura County Police Department)

[Larry Lucido]

How do you repair a tortoise, anyway? Bondo?

[lawgirl]

what is a private family doing owning an endangered animal?

[Jaysun]

This guy brought a turtle to my Mother at work and she brought it home for my brother to keep as a pet. It turns out it was a snapping turtle. One day he was handing it off to one of his pals and it extended its neck and bit my brother on the stomach then quickly extracted itself into the shell. It stayed clamped on his stomach and we couldn’t get it off.

He was passing out because when he breathed it clamped down harder. They called an ambulance. Meanwhile he’s in a recliner and one boy is holding the turtle in the air so it wouldn’t fall over and rip the meat from my brother’s stomach. Another guy was stabbing it with a knife but it didn’t let go. Then the neighbor came in with a garden hose and started spraying it (he was a nutcase).

Anyway, my brother’s friend finally grabs a hammer and knocks a perfect hole in the shell. Then the nutcase jambs the hose into the hole and the turtle’s legs and neck came out and blew up like a balloon. It finally let go. The ambulance got there a short time later and one of the paramedics, a young girl, refused to help my brother because she was mad about the turtle being killed. The other paramedic gave him a shot and loaded him onto a gurney and took him to the hospital.

[mefistofelerevised]

If Jose “tony” is convicted hope he gets 3 years.

[ChurtleDawg]

the guy who did this is sick. he is definetly a serial-killer in the making. most of them start by torturing and killing animals

[stinkerpot65]

Cooter pie:

First you take a live cooter and wait for him to stick his head out from under his shell. When he does this, you grab it and whack it off. Take a hatchet to the underside so you can get to the meat and remove it along with the liver, tripe, and eggs (if any). Set aside.

1/2 cup of chopped bacon 1 stewed tomato, chopped
2 medium onions, chopped 1 teaspoon of thyme
2 toes of garlic, crushed 1/4 cup of flour

Fry all the above down until it’s brown, then add the cooter and continue to cook. It’s best in a black iron dutch oven. Don’t forget to salt and pepper it to your taste.

Brown the flour in an iron frying pan. Stir it constantly to avoid burning. Make sure you brown it good. Then add it to the cooter with enough water to make it soupy. Stew down til meat is falling off the bone and the liquid is thick.

Now make biscuit dough and drop small-sized biscuits over the top of the stew. Stick it in a preheated oven at 400 degrees and bake until golden.