This week has felt like a barrage of crappy news due to crappy people. So it seemed this was really needed this week. And I had a few queued up, so wasn’t too much trouble to put together.
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My nieces are both obsessed with turtles and tortoises and I became favorite Auntie when I stopped in the middle of a country road so they could relocate this HUGE snapping turtle. They of course knew to send it on its way going in the direction it was already traveling and successfully moved it out of the road.
Runaway Tortoise Leads Cop On âSlowest Foot Pursuit Ever
He has no regret đ
By Stephen Messenger
Published on 3/3/2023 at 5:31 PM
Sure, slow and steady may win the race. But unfortunately for this tortoise named Seashell, it wasnât quite enough to escape the law.
For the past 15 years, Seashell has been the cherished pet of Mayda Garcia and her family in Texas. There, heâs provided with plenty of love and treats, and a spacious backyard to call his own. One thing is lacking from his cozy domestic life, though â and thatâs unbridled adventure.
But it hasnât stopped Seashell from seeking it out.
Over the years, Seashell has seized the opportunity to slip away from home on a number of different occasions.
One notable incident occurred in 2021 when he managed to break through a wooden gate to explore the world beyond.
Fortunately, Seashell didnât get too far. A neighbor spotted him and reported it to the police, who then picked him up and returned him home.
This, however, wouldnât be Seashellâs last brush with the cops.
Earlier this week, Deputy Joe Garza of the Bexar County Sheriffâs Office was on patrol when he spotted a tortoise wandering down the street. Garza knew just who to contact.
â[He] reported it to his supervisor, who was the same Sergeant that had found a tortoise roaming in the area over a year prior,â the sheriffâs office wrote online. âThe sergeant knew this had to be the escape artist, Seashell!â
And sure enough, he was right.
Seashell evidently tried to make a break for it â but was soon apprehended. Yet again.
The fugitive tortoise had racked up quite the criminal record for a reptile. But in the back of the squad car, he showed little regret.
Thanks to Seashellâs prior run-in with the law, authorities knew where the tortoise lives, and returned him home just as they had done before. Read the remainder here
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Alison Rose sent this to me, sweet duck story:
Direct link if you can’t see the embed: Gertrude the Duck
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My new favorite follow on twitter;
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đ”: Another one bites the dust – @QueenWillRock @DrBrianMay @OfficialRMT
đ: Galway, Ireland #queen #dance pic.twitter.com/W6cQ3hCdk9
— Gardiner Brothers (@Gardiner_Bros) January 19, 2022
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I’ve had this one tucked away for awhile.
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If you need a place to kill some time, several people have sent me this guy and his obsession with clearing drains, making the world a better place, one clogged sewage drain at a time:
the people who want to ban tiktok would think differently if they followed my favorite account, which is called @unclogging_drains pic.twitter.com/UQITvURxdN
— Scott Nover (@ScottNover) March 5, 2023
I don’t do TikTok, but his videos can be found on tiktok here
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This was just straight-up fun:
These Mexican girls had a âdress like your dadâ party and itâs silly as hell pic.twitter.com/P3SL8r84jq
— timmy janâs. (@OGxJAN) March 5, 2023
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And finally, Miss Bianca sent puppy pictures which I neglected to post in a timely fashion! Here is Susi. Get your squee ready:
Those two are from when she was a wee thing. Now she’s out exploring:
That’s it for now. Share any good news stories in the comments.
Old School
Sorry for rough week. I hope it gets better.
I’ve got to work on either coming up with a better look or growing facial hair. I don’t think my daughter would be able to have a costume identifiable as me.
sab
Very brave and not for the uninformed. Snappers have long necks, sharp teeth, and generally a bad attitude about being handled.
Quiltingfool
Thank you for sharing the cheerleader video! Â It got a bit dusty in the room.
Inclusion is good for everyone.
TerryTime
Lawmakers in Michigan have passed a bill to expand civil rights protections to the LGBTQ community, with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) expected to sign the measure into law when it reaches her desk.
Alison Rose
I did tap when I was 4 and 5 and I was basically as good as those guys. Har har.
raven
Me and a tortoise at the San Diego Zoo, the stamp says 1966 but this was more like 56.
raven
Look at sus!
TaMara
@sab:Â Luckily, it wasn’t my first snapper, so I was able to give them some pointers on what to watch out for – both are big animal lovers and my oldest niece is now working on her master’s in marine biology.
TaMara
@TerryTime: In similar good news, CO:
sab
@TaMara: You are good people. I don’t hate snappers. Poor little guys wandering a hostile world. I do hate them chopping friendly fingers off at random.
KrackenJack
Reptilian recidivism! I’m for tough legislation.
No, not three strikes and you’re soup.
TaMara
@sab: My nieces took it as a badge of honor that it peed on them both.
sab
@TaMara: I agree. Lol.
WaterGirl
I wanted to watch that video about the amazing 17-year-old, but then she said the word “equity” so I knew it was bad and scary, that it should be turned off and no one else should see the video. //
Seriously, she is awesome, I love her laugh, her style, her attitude.
TaMara
Also, I think we should use this post to DEMAND Cole give us an update on Maxwell’s integration.
Alison Rose
@raven: ADORABLE
sab
OT I just gave a sustaining membership to my local public media stations. One PBS, one NPR, one just random exfellent classical music.
Somehow they got there shit together, talked to each other and merged under one umbrella. Also too brought our local classical station back from the wilds of Lorain County to unspellable Cuyahoga County (and its environs.)
That classical station had been gone for two decades and I have missed it deeply every day. I blame Gore for driving them out. Why I had to hold my nose to vote for him. Tidying up government by selling stuff.
Spanky
@TaMara: We can’t handle the truth!
Matt McIrvin
@TaMara:
I read that phrase and immediately flashed back to trying to teach pre-meds about electromagnetism.
Alison Rose
Wow, Dasia is amazing. What a brilliant young woman, and I love that she’s using her intellect in such a compassionate and helpful way.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: I know! Â Science is her thing, but she’s going to study political science in college so she can figure out what it will take to turn equity into a reality.
Very inspirational!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Matt McIrvin:
Did any of them ask if magnets cure cancer?
sab
@sab: My spelling were not good there in that coomment.
Dan B
Newsom announced that CA will not renew a $54 million contract with Walgreens because of their caving on selling abortion meds. Let’s get more states to follow suit!
Jackie
@Dan B: I can see WA doing that. Maybe OR.
Geminid
There’s some more good Navy news. Some days ago Navy Secretary Del Toro announced that the cruiser Chancellorville would be renamed for Union ship’s pilot Robert Smalls, and today he said the Navy oceanographic research ship Maury would be renamed to honor geologist and marine cartographer Marie Tharp.
Tharp was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1920. Her professional career spanned from the 1940s to the 1980s. Although she was not credited at the time, in the 1950s Tharps research and analysis of the Atlantic Ocean floor contributed to the novel theory of plate tectonics.
Up until April, 1861, Matthew Fontaine Maury had an illustrious career as a pioneering oceanographer. Then he quit the U.S. Navy for the Confederate, and spent most of the rebellion in Europe trying to drum up support for the Confederate States. His statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue was removed in the Spring of 2020.
Amir Khalid
Susi! Squeee…
kalakal
When your new house comes with special conditions
Buy a tortoise, get a house
WaterGirl
@Dan B: $54 million? Â That’s real money. :-)
Miss Bianca
@Amir Khalid: IKR? :)