Tried to Save a Turtle

So my girl and I are returning from Steak & Shake when we see this huge ass turtle in the parking lot of my apartment. I'm talking like 1.5-2ft in length. And a heavy motherfucker at that. I decided to move it because he wasn't able to crawl very well on the concrete and I'm sure he didn't really want to be there. So I pick him up and he freaks out and goes into his shell (obviously). There's a pond nearby next to a forest near my apartment so I just set him on the ground next to the pond. Then the stupid ass makes his way back into the parking lot! I picked him up again, this time with the intention of actually putting him in the woods, but homeboy hissed at me!

I didn't even know turtles could fucking hiss! Scared the shit out of me. So I just set him down again and let him be. I guess he knows where he wants to go better than I do, and I didn't feel like being bitten by a turtle.

And yeah, I washed my hands a couple times before I hit my pipe. Apparently turtles can carry salmonella(sp?). I got a pretty cool pic out of it though with my phone.

lets see dat shit haha

I wanna see the big turtle too show us show us.

I thought for sure you were gonna say you dropped him when he hissed at you.
I am so glad you didn't.

Dat a man

Rep for you for such a cute story/

A turtle hERO!!!

I used to live at a place like that.. North carolina at a place called green field lake..

big ass aligators and turtles..

Hehe you got hissed at lol!

kinda of reminds me of the Sienfeld episode where jerry and kramer decide free this huge ass turtle and take it on a boat into the oceon and throw it off, they find out later that it was a desert Tortis lol...................I'm not saying it wasn't a turtle, but we have pretty big gopher tortisis that live here in florida and dig burrows

I see'em occasionally out here too big to even move on the road.. lol you hit one of those and your car is getting some damage.

You have to be careful with those turtles too, cause odds are it was a snapping turtle and well if it got your hand it could have taken a finger off.

Those huge turtles I've found can take and snap through 5" branches like nothing.

i found a 5' box turtle in my yard while mowing my grass a couple of days ago...i live in the middle of a residential area so i dont know where he came from but i just let him do his thing...next day i found a 40 gallon aquarium tank, oh well

and fuck any turtle that hisses, i dont know if it was an alligator snapping turtle or not but those things have the 2nd most powerful jaw next to the alligator-discovery chanel

damn he could have lost his hand

that was a funny video

Lacy said:

I wanna see the big turtle too show us show us.

I thought for sure you were gonna say you dropped him when he hissed at you.
I am so glad you didn't.

Dat a man

Rep for you for such a cute story/

A turtle hERO!!!

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I'd love to show you guys, but apparently my computer is not Bluetooth compatible, so I don't know how I would upload it. Any ideas anyone?

And thanks for all the comments, it was quite an adventure.

Pseudonym said:

I'd love to show you guys, but apparently my computer is not Bluetooth compatible, so I don't know how I would upload it. Any ideas anyone?

And thanks for all the comments, it was quite an adventure.

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can't you send it to your email from your phone.

I made a turtle explode once ** UNINTENTIONALLY, DAMN IT!!!**

on my way to a family canoe trip

I thought my car was high enough that i could clear it with out any problems... WRONG!!!

I clipped its shell with the very bottom of the exhaust header at about 55-60 mph...

Big mess... both underneath the car and on the road... i did feel bad though...

I was messing with a snapping turtle last year.. as big as a toilet seat.. he snapped a 2 1/2'' round stick in two ... I left it alone ...