I Committed Testudinacide
@BelleStarr (61047)
United States
May 30, 2016 8:31pm CST
Yes, I know, you find it hard to believe that I could have done this, me too!! But I am guilty!! Oh so guilty.
It started out simply enough I left my home on the way to water exercise. We were driving down the road and there was workmen cutting trees along the road and we had to move over.
I saw something in the road but I thought it was just some debris. At least I did until I was almost on top it and then I realized, it was a turtle. I had nowhere to go and then I heard the crunch, oh no, I had run over the turtle with my car. That crunching sound told the whole story.
I feel really bad, I never like to kill any animal and I have no aversion to turtles even though in our area it could very well have been a snapping turtle.
I need to talk to @thehorse about this, I may have to turn myself in. I have now gone from plantacide to turtle killing!! Who knows where this is going next!! You might not be wanting to meet me for tea!!
Have you ever turned your car into a lethal weapon? I am sure there is probably a picture of me on the wall at the turtle post office, most wanted woman!!
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I killed a deer once that launched itself at my car. Not pleasant.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
@jaboUK Oh yes, I don't know if you remember but I did write an article about the deer that killed my Chevy Prism, my son-in-law John had borrow my car and he hit a deer. My car was a total loss.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
No it is never pleasant to kill a living creature but on the positive side the turtle didn't damage my car!!
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@jaboUK (64362)
• United Kingdom
31 May 16
@BelleStarr My car had the radiator caved in
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
31 May 16
I have and felt bad too. I was out fishing in my boat with my girlfriend and we left the lake at dusk. Apparently it was frog mating season and they were all over the road leading out. I mean hundreds. I had a boat on the back of my car. I drove really really slow and tried to dodge all the frogs. Not to be. I ran over a huge bullfrog and that sound will haunt me forever. That was probably 20 years ago and my girlfriend and I still talk about that.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
Oh yah, awful sound. It really is hard when they make it unavoidable.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
31 May 16
@BelleStarr I would have had to have sat there all night there were so many frogs on that road leading out from the lake.
@marguicha (215179)
• Chile
31 May 16
I have run into a couple of posts, but that does not count.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
No but it is easier to deal with fixing your car rather than knowing you killed a turtle.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jun 16
I certainly repent I may even have to go to confession, I think I need to check those commandments!!
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@akalinus (40432)
• United States
1 Jun 16
I ran over a raccoon once. It was in the middle of my lane. There was a dropoff on one side and oncoming traffic on the other. I had nowhere to go. On the way back, I saw another raccoon standing over it, weaving back and forth. I felt so bad but there was nothing I could do. It still makes me sad to think about it.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jun 16
That really is sad I wonder if it was a family member? Or are racoon scavengers and it looked like its next meal?
@akalinus (40432)
• United States
2 Jun 16
@BelleStarr I think it was sad. Maybe it was its mate or child. I felt so devastated. I just cried all the way home and the rest of the night, too.
@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 May 16
For shame! (That was just for the public to see.) I'm sorry this happened to you. I may have committed Bambicide once in Montana. If need be, I will harbor you until the case blows over. I'll send you directions to my compound in secret code.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
I am expecting to see a YouTube video at any moment with people clamoring for my head!! I will be on my way into hiding soon!!
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jun 16
@TheHorse One if by land 2 if by sea?
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@TheHorse (205263)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 May 16
@BelleStarr That was the image I had too. Here are the directions: ^*&))((%$#^&. Look for the red lantern hanging down above my balcony.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
31 May 16
I have actually stopped to avoid hitting, yes you guessed it, a butterfly. I did hit a chipmunk once and it made me sick knowing I ran it over.
Don't know what I would do if I hit a deer.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
31 May 16
@BelleStarr Oh, I can feel your pain. But, it happens. Just try not to beat yourself up. And watch out for the TMNT patrol.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
I came very close with the deer but somehow avoided it, I didn't realize it was a turtle until too late and I did feel sick about it.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48890)
• United States
1 Jun 16
Oh no.....poor turtle and poor you.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
31 May 16
bless yer heart, though most humorously penned, i can feel yer pain. sometimes there's no way to avoid such a mishap :( i split a dove in two once with the antenna'f my car...sure broke my roommate't the time from ridin' with the window rolled down. she was not too thrilled to've one'f the halves land'n her lap.
p.s. guess what i got'n the mail today? yepperz! they arrived - many thanks!!
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
23 Jun 16
I am so glad that you got the jeans and I look forward to hearing what you create when you get to it.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
24 Jun 16
@BelleStarr i've put the sewin' 'way fer the time bein'. too busy tacklin' weeds't my place, mamaw's 'n the neighbors...a most dauntin' task'n's made't so i've not e'en much pony time. the latter which really gets under my craw. i'll be sure to keep ya posted though, when i've the time to whip somethin' 'p. i've got several folks wantin' one'f my attempts't a quilt, so we'll see, lol. big hugs!
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@Dragonairy1 (1722)
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
31 May 16
We once had a cute frog that lived in our shed, until one wet day it turned up squashed under where we park our car, I don't know if it was me or my husband but we were both gutted.
On a side note, you have wide turtles near you, wow.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
23 Jun 16
I would have felt quite gutted about the frog as well, I certainly was over the turtle.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
31 May 16
As a teen who drove like a crazy women living in the country I did kill a few woodchucks and one skunk. I became very careful after the skunk... Sorry that happened to you, I would feel really bad if I hit a turtle... My daughter who I renamed Mother Nature stops on her road and moves the turtles off the road into the swamp. She is in a swampy area and the babies are born in the dirt on the side of the road. She makes sure they get back into the water when she sees them. Once she tried to move a full grown off the road and it tried to get her hand, (snapping turtle) now she had a broom in the back of her car.. to make them get off the road...
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
If I had known it was a turtle I would have tried to get it off the road as well but by the time I saw it , it was too late.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
31 May 16
@BelleStarr crap happens at times, I know you would have moved if you saw it ...
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
31 May 16
Oh lordy no @BelleStarr . It's a heart-breaker to smoosh a critter. In my 54 years of driving, I accidentally killed 1 rabbit and 1 cat. Both incidents were at night and the critters ran in front of me and I couldn't do anything but cry all the rest of the way home.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jun 16
Yes I have cried after hitting animals at night too, it is hard to avoid them some times.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
I made it up from the species and the act of killing it. It may or may not be real lol I did feel terrible, if it was a snake I would have screamed and pulled my feet up off the floor of the car lol I loath snakes.
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@thelme55 (76477)
• Germany
1 Jun 16
Oh my! I don't drive and so I have not experienced that. But you know what? I have eaten a turtle when I was a child. My parents killed the turtle and the meat was forced to be eaten by me ( I cried while eating it) because they said in my home country that turtle meat can cure asthma. Maybe it was true because I did not have asthma attack after that.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jun 16
Well turtle is made into soup here and is considered a delicacy.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
I did once have a pet turtle as a child but that didn't end well either.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
Yes I certainly felt like crying I can tell you. It was very sad.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
Yes especially when they seem to want to place themselves in hards way
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
31 May 16
oohhh no.... it's horrible when that happens.... poor you...
once when I was on my motorbike a pheasant flew out of the hedge, straight into my front wheel... needless to say it did not survive... and it made me wobble and skid a bit...and both me and my bike were covered in blood and bird innerds...yyeeeuuccchhh.... but I still felt bad....
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
I know it gives one a sick feeling in the stomach. It was innocent but if it just would have moved a little faster!! lol sorry no no I feel bad!!
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@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
31 May 16
Although it's quite a sad state of affairs for that poor turtle of whichever variety it was, you are a funny lady, Belle.That turtle should have known he should have been elsewhere while men are working on the road. If he'd had a smell like a skunk he cold have warned everyone of his presence.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
31 May 16
lol Thanks for the compliment yes I like to see the humor in life but of course I really am quite sad about hitting it, I will never forget the sound!!
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