Watch out. It could be a dry run.
According to the Port Authority, the turtles measured about 8 inches long and weighed 2 to 3 pounds.
Turtle 59er clear to taxi to 27 right.
Gee, I thought the saying “a herd of turtles’, was some kind of joke.
Reminds me of an old MAD Magazine cartoon - "What You Heard, and What It Really Is":
What You Heard:
--- thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump ---
What It Was:
A triple column of turtles crossing the road
, these turtles exhibit an attempt to evolve into flying creatures as the try to escape the man made global warming of New York by catching flights to more socialist countries where global warming is taken more seriously
The article identifies the turtles as Diamondback Terrapins, about eight inches long and two or three pounds. Two weeks ago I was driving home and had to swerve to avoid a snapping turtle. He was hugh and it could have been series if I hit him.
-PJ
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't turtles amphibians, and tortoises reptiles?
Tangentially related: In 2005 or so, I took a drive up to Antietam, for their 'Artillery Hell' weekend. I saw a very large turtle(?) cross the road in front of me at a speed I never would have believed, if I hadn't seen it.
I thought the Turtles broke up in the 70s.
Being the kindhearted person that I am, I would always stop and put a crossing turtle off the road, so that some nitwit didn't come along and play kamikaze, as some are wont to do.
(Rednecks and "hold muh beer" types, not the turtles.)
Anyhow, I would occasionally come back along the same route and there would invariably be more turtles crossing.
It took me quite a while before I realized that I was most likely helping the same turtles back and forth across the road, especially after I stopped, got out of the truck, placed a turtle on the shoulder of the road, and as I drove off, watched the damn thing turn around and proceed back into the road.
After that, I would just play crossing guard for them...sitting in the truck in the roadway, guarding them from what little traffic was on the rural back roads.
Needless to say, I did have a very boring job.
Rewarding, but boring.
Aww, jeeez. Not another ‘why did the turtle cross the runway?” joke...
thank god the Stimulus bill provided few billions for the turtle overpass funding. that’s absolutely essential for the future of this planet.
also, as others here have smartly concluded, this is absolute 100% proof of Global Warming. That’s why we need to raise taxes and destroy the economy.
Back in the 1970’s a moose on runway 26 shut the Helena Regional airport dow. We now have fence around but antelope can still bound over it.
Maybe the turtles were protesting.
