White men can’t jump…but turtles can!
So there we were driving our way back home from La Crosse (previous night being bachelor and bachlorette parties) when out of no where there was this odd object in the middle of the road. We pulled over because as we drove by we saw that it was a turtle. One of the largest, if not the largest turtles we had seen. It was probably at least a foot wide in diameter. To add to that it had a tail about a foot long.
Looking both ways to make sure that no hily billy was going to run me over I made my way to the turtle and looked at him. I then proceeded to crouch down over him and grab him like I had grabbed any other turtle. The stupid thing jumped around and hissed at me and then snapped. That should have been my clue to leave the dumb thing in the middle of the road, but it wasn’t. So I went and go my camera tripod and attempted to push him off the road with it. Nope. He didn’t like that either. So I left him there in the middle of the road.
I was a bit puzzled with what kind of turtle it was so I did some research yesterday. Yeah it was a freaking snapping turtle.
So just remember that turtles can jump…and hiss…and snap!
