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Clemson student's turtle project takes dark twist
Herald on line ^ | December 27, 2012 | Jeffrey Collins

Posted on 12/30/2012 9:17:31 AM PST by ZULU

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To: ZULU
In over 2 million miles and over 50 years of driving, I've never hit a turtle.

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.

81 posted on 12/31/2012 4:49:18 AM PST by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: ZULU

ditto


82 posted on 12/31/2012 5:58:43 AM PST by kanawa (FB-- Save George Zimmerman from racial onslaught)
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To: ZULU

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.


83 posted on 12/31/2012 10:06:09 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Hot Tabasco

There was a biography about a remarkable woman named Grace Wiley. She really existed and was a reptile fan. She had pet crocs which knew their own names and came when she called.

She tamed cobras also.

See http://hclib.tumblr.com/post/4501763269/grace-wiley-snake-lady-when-minneapolis-opened.
Died of a cobra bite.


84 posted on 12/31/2012 10:06:54 AM PST by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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She tamed cobras also.

Not very well it seems........LOL!

85 posted on 12/31/2012 11:02:09 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: ZULU

I believe they are the spiny softshells.


86 posted on 12/31/2012 1:43:10 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: ZULU
Suppose people ran down elks that crossed the road at every opportunity and elk country was criss-crossed with highways driven over by idiot city people and big trucks.

The elk might be injured or die but the vehicle that impacts the elk and the people inside are more than likely to die. Imagine a 2,000 lb. animal crashing through your windshield at night. For some reason, they get out of the way of moving vehicles at great speed during the daytime.

87 posted on 12/31/2012 2:20:25 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Hot Tabasco
There are threads for babies and the occasional thread for turtles........THIS one is for turtles....

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88 posted on 12/31/2012 2:28:50 PM PST by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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That’s just darn cute! What kind of a turtle is that?


89 posted on 12/31/2012 2:57:14 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: ZULU
Not meant to lecture, but "elk" is both singular and plural. It is possible to encounter one elk, or a herd of elk. There are no "elks".

A mature male elk is a "bull". A mature female elk is a "cow". A pre-pubescent elk, regardless of sex is a "calf" (plural = "calves"). A post-pubescent male generally ineligible for harvest is a "spike".

90 posted on 12/31/2012 3:02:29 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Hot Tabasco

That I don’t know. It’s a cutie though.


91 posted on 12/31/2012 4:18:35 PM PST by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: ZULU

I’m a small female in a tiny pink car. Every rare now and again someone decides that means “fun to hassle”.


92 posted on 12/31/2012 5:55:56 PM PST by Fire_on_High (RIP City of Heroes and Paragon Studios, victim of the Obamaconomy.)
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To: Fire_on_High

Try an NRA sticker!


93 posted on 01/01/2013 8:46:49 AM PST by ZULU (See video: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-first-siege-of-vienna.html)
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