December 28, 2012
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Running Over a Turtle
A student at Clemson University was putting together a project to try and help turtles get across the road without getting run over.
He put a realistic-looking rubber turtle in the road and found that people tried to run the turtle over on purpose. Here is the link: LinkIf you saw a turtle in the road, would you try and run it over?
Comments (59)
No, and anyone who would is a souless dick.
No. I’d gladly run over the people who tried to run over the turtle though… or at least drag them out of their cars and bash their heads in with a flashlight.
I’d get out and stomp on it. Then I’d kick the shell and eat a mushroom.
The people who do that on purpose are cruel and heartless. I have come across turtles on the road and gotten out to move them.
I wouldn’t run it over but I’d roll down my window and yell at it to get in the slow lane.
The first animal I ever ran over was a turtle the size of a dinner plate. It was just there as I turned at an intersection and I couldn’t avoid it in my humongous ’74 Monte Carlo. The crunch was terrible; I’d never do that on purpose. I don’t understand why anyone would deliberately try to run over any kind of animal. Except maybe a snake.
No. But, I’m not a soul less.
Nope.
Nooo! My dad and I always stop to pick up those slow turtles and help them to the other side
He keeps a net in the trunk for this very purpose
I once saw some dickhead in a fancy SUV swerve just to hit a turtle. He clipped the shell and this turtle flew up maybe 3 feet in the air and the little bastard lived without even a crack in his shell! (and yes I moved it to the other side of the road so another jerk couldn’t hit it)
I would love to kick people in the face who do intentionally harm animals
I only run over rabbits.
I’d most likely be the idiot pulling over to save it. n_n; Like the guy’s wife. Haha. I read that article, then signed onto xanga to see your post! How neat. But yeah. I can’t believe people would be so mean! That’s just sad.
My eyes would have been wide with shock. Like, when they guy went over the line to hit it, with the researcher just, what… 20 feet or yards away? How crazy. Some people. -_- What would YOU do?
Absolutely not! I’d stop and carry him over. Well, unless it was a snapping turtle. I like wildlife, but I like having all of my fingers more.
nah
That would be a sick thing to do. I’d stop.
@steph843 - hope you’d have steel toe boots on. Are you getting notes on who to watch here?
i’d swerve around it
No, of course not. But I’ve heard the same thing
No. Anyone who intentionally tries to run an animal over deserves to have their underwear infested with fire ants and then be dipped in rubbing alcohol.
yes if it were in the path of my tires I would run it over rather than swerve that’s more dangerous however I would not aim for it hate to blow a tire
No I would pick it up and put it in radioactive ooze. Course I’d have to do the same thing to a sewer rat so that the rat could help teach it martial arts.
No. However I just hit a bird recently on the highway. I did not swerve thinking that evolution gave the stupid thing wings to evade danger. Long story short, it’s carcess is still stuck behind my grill.
No I would try to avoid it running over a turtle is a good way to have a blow out if the shell hits the treads wrong…besides turtles are cool I have pulled over and picked up turtles many times and taken them to the side of the road so they wouldn’t get hit
we have a lot up here and I have a friend who hit one and it did a lot of damage to his car.
I’d instinctively drive around it for fear of my car spinning out of control. Thanks, Super Mario Kart.
Only if that turtle is Mitch McConnell.
No not at all but then you always have the sick jerks who would try to run over it.
Nope cannot drive.
Nope, but if I did, i really hope i wouldn’t be subject to the ridiculous torture some of the other xangans suggest. Shit happens.
We see turtles in the road a lot in the spring and summer, and no we don’t try to run over them. We try to avoid them, and then stop and help them the rest of the way across the road. Unless it’s a snapping turtle…….then we stay far away, and hope someone else runs over them. I don’t think you could kill one of them by running over it anyway.
The first animal everyone in our family killed with a car was a turtle.
We are now referred to as “The Turtle Mafia.”
“Come here, Tooter. We have a proposition for you.”
That is fucking disgusting, maybe some of these people need to be ran over and see how funny be run over really is. I would never run over a animal on purpose, they have nerve endings which means it hurts them and they have families. Poor turtles!
No. But I’ve had turtles stalk me scuba diving before.
absolutely not. I did run one over on accident… i went back and it was gone… thank goodness!
I nearly got into a wreck trying to avoid a turtle in the road I didn’t see till I came around a corner. I try my best to avoid animals in the road, whether dead or alive but I can’t say I’ve never hit one. I hit a dog once that came out of nowhere one night. I pulled over and cried for a good 5 minutes. I don’t like hitting animals >_<
@bclmj - It’s only more dangerous to swerve if you’re in super crowded traffic and you swerve a LOT. Its a turtle…its not like it can change direction and move quickly, and most likely you can see it from far away. Adjust the wheel to move your tires a foot and you’re most likely still in your lane, and haven’t hit the turtle. win-win
I would never run them over. Whenever me and my family get the chance, we set them on the other side of the road.
@wildchildofthebluemoon - Good tip!
Nope would do it, and you can’t make me. Actually hit a dear this morning, but he/she had it coming. Actually tried to avoid it, but, you know, “dear and headlights”, like they are true loves or something. Ran right out in front of me after it was standing on the side of the road. Like, what the hell dude/dudess. Anyway, wasn’t sticking around to get pummeled with its hooves if I tried to do anything with it.
No. If I ever hit a turtle or any animal, I’d feel horrible. =[
The study never mentioned what type of vehicles tried to run over the turtle. Something tells me most of these were obnoxious vehicles.
A squirrel used a car I was driving to commit suicide. It bothered me that he chose my car to off himself. It felt funny when the tire ran over him. In the rear view mirror, I saw the little guy roll over a couple of times. Not to sound cruel, but that little guy became the breakfast for turkey buzzards.
When I found a turtle in the road, I moved it out of the way. Took a while to do so because of the heavy traffic on a two-lane backroad that, generally speaking, was rarely busy most days when I used it.
I have probably run over small critters over the years of driving without me knowing.
I remember when I was heading home and turning to our street. There was also a car in front of me. For some reason this bird, probably a common brown bird you see everyday, flies across and in front of the vehicle. The driver never saw the bird. The next thing I see was a poof of feathers that came out from under the car I was following.
Genetically-engineered turtles with retractable shell cannons. Like a Blastoise but in real life. Then drivers will think twice before running ‘em over
Nope. I go around animals.
I actually read the same thing just a few hours ago, No I would not try to hit the turtle. that is horrible, I might accidentally hit it though because I might suck at paying attention, but if I saw it, no. I would never run over a turtle on purpose.
no, i would not. i respect all life. here in florida, we will stop traffic and risk our lives to save a turtle. turtles are awesome.
nope…i don’t drive.
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I can’t even begin to wrap my head around someone who would deliberately run over a innocent creature just for kicks. Ugh.
@TheSutraDude -
How cruel that would be. Who ever does such a thing needs to be staked out in the middle of rush hour traffic himself. I’d be one of those drivers creating another hazard because I’d be out in the middle of traffic trying to scoop the little guy into my car.
LOL…
I’d be the idiot holding up traffic trying to pick it up and get it some place safe. But there are some really sick folks out there that think that’s a funny thing to do. The human race is a strange one often times. *sigh…
Never. (and I’m not even a big fan of turtles) MzSilver just thinks humans are strange, I think half of them are nuts! Seriously, what kind of normal person does something like that? Jeez.
I try not to run over any living thing, including snakes and cougars.
it’s not always because people want to hit the turtle on purpose but sometimes people are drawn to things that they see on the road and find themselves subconsciously driving toward them. it’s why car accidents on highways cause other little accidents because people are so busy watching it that they actually start to drive towards it a little without realizing it. i dunno man we do weird stuff all the time
I move not only turtles, but snakes and other critters off the road when on the bicycle.
-netnguy
course not..
Can’t make no stew out of it that way. Ya gotta plunk it with a .22 in the bootie what so you dont mess up the neck. Neck the best eating.
no way. i would STOP and carry the turtle to the other side.
what? whyy do people do that???
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No way I would hurt a turtle, I would move it out of harms way.
I also move little wooly caterpillers and snails out of harms way as well.
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