Ungrateful little (insert explicative here)!!

[hrh_disney_queen]

Hmmm....I wonder if a higher percentage of former Chrissy doll owners are present day turtle savers?

maybeeeee...

 

[raysnkaysmom]

Wait, you held up traffic to try and get a turtle out of the road? I'm sure the other people in those cars were not laughing.

I'd think it a noble deed
I've done it before...but these turtles were smaller, and nicer in Ga

 

[drag n' fly]

Op what goes around comes around and your good deed will not go unoticed and be returned back to you one day

 

[binny]

On my way home from shopping today, I turned off the expressway on the exit ramp. A little way up I could see a lump in the middle of my lane. I slowed down-at first I thought it was a sweatshirt or piece of clothing. When I got closer and started to go around it, I saw it was a turtle trying to cross the road. So I checked in back, and backed up so I could block traffic in that lane, waiting for the other lane to clear. I was going to toss him back down the hill he had come up-we live in marshes, so there was probably a body of water down there.

Anyway, one of the cars next to me stops, so now all traffic is stopped. I have a big truck in back of me, so I get ready to go save this little guy's life. The woman in the stopped car hops out of her car to do the same. We go up to him, I nudge his behind, and the little *&#$%@^% SPINS AROUND and tries to bite me. Yep, he isn't one of those nice turtles that just mosey around all day, he is a big ole' snapping turtle, and he is snapping at my Birkenstock clad (unclad) toes!! I then tried to reach down and push him from behind with my hand-bad idea, have you ever seen a turtle SPIN? It's funny to see, but not when your hand is where you thought it should be safe..but it's not! So we are ready to just leave and let Mr. Pissy Pants go ahead and get run over, because he certainly won't let us help him. The other woman runs to her car and returns with an empty box. I am thinking.."are you kidding me, you are going to try to put him in that box??!!" Then she starts to push him with it, and he is moving ever so slightly towards the side of the road, snapping and biting at the box all the way..and BTW, this thing wasn't really "little" he probably weighed about 10-15 pounds, and I am guessing he was about 18 inches long. And he wasn't going down without a fight. Finally after what seemed like an eternity (cars are really piling up now, and I am sure the folks that could see us were laughing their butts off at us.), the little SOB finally gets to the side of the road. One good push would have sent him flying down the hill to his previous residence. But we were so ticked off at him by then, and he was facing us with his mouth wide open(could have fit a golf ball in it easily.), so we let nature take over and left him there. He was on his own.

It doesn't pay to be an ingrate. Remember that..

Too funny! We did the same thing with a momma duck and her babies. I saw them coming up the hill, the guy in the oncoming lane saw me stop so he did too. We both got out of our cars to scoot them along a little faster. We were blocking traffic and I am sure the people in the other cars were laughing hysterically at both me and this big burly guy trying to scoot a duck family out of the way.

The mama duck quacked at us the whole time and the babies did too. The guy and I were cracking up by the time they crossed the road. People were clapping though, it was hilarious!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

binny, we've got ducks and ducklings here, too. Right in front of my kids' school, where it's supposed to be 25 mph, but the cars fly down that road. I stopped once for a momma and about 10 babies (I actually stop if I even see them coming, not just when they are right on the street..) and the oncoming traffic stopped, too. While we were waiting, someone about three cars back was beeping their horn. Yeah, like we all just stopped simultaneously for no reason, jerk..

We don't have to herd our duckies, though..they get going in their little line and move on along.

I told my DH about the nasty turtle. He said he did the same thing on another busy road here. He tried to pick it up, but it kept trying to bite him, so he tried prodding it with a big stick. It bit the stick in two!! He finally got it somehow and moved it across the street..(He thinks he is Steve Erwin.. always catching snakes and critters in our yard..)

 

[binny]

LOL!

We have some really smart ducks in this area. I have seen 3 different duck families cross in the crosswalk. Cracks me up! One was on a busy highway 5 lanes across. I was at the light when this momma came up and actually waited for the cars to stop then lead her little family across the highway IN the middle of the crosswalk! Everyone just stayed through a set of lights, you could see people in their cars grabbing their kids to show them and taking pictures with their cell phones.

I told my mum I wouldnt be surprised if she had flown up and hit the cross button




We obviously were dealing with a slow learner in the previous post. She was a ways from the nearest crosswalk

 

[disney1990]

On my way home from shopping today, I turned off the expressway on the exit ramp. A little way up I could see a lump in the middle of my lane. I slowed down-at first I thought it was a sweatshirt or piece of clothing. When I got closer and started to go around it, I saw it was a turtle trying to cross the road. So I checked in back, and backed up so I could block traffic in that lane, waiting for the other lane to clear. I was going to toss him back down the hill he had come up-we live in marshes, so there was probably a body of water down there.

Anyway, one of the cars next to me stops, so now all traffic is stopped. I have a big truck in back of me, so I get ready to go save this little guy's life. The woman in the stopped car hops out of her car to do the same. We go up to him, I nudge his behind, and the little *&#$%@^% SPINS AROUND and tries to bite me. Yep, he isn't one of those nice turtles that just mosey around all day, he is a big ole' snapping turtle, and he is snapping at my Birkenstock clad (unclad) toes!! I then tried to reach down and push him from behind with my hand-bad idea, have you ever seen a turtle SPIN? It's funny to see, but not when your hand is where you thought it should be safe..but it's not! So we are ready to just leave and let Mr. Pissy Pants go ahead and get run over, because he certainly won't let us help him. The other woman runs to her car and returns with an empty box. I am thinking.."are you kidding me, you are going to try to put him in that box??!!" Then she starts to push him with it, and he is moving ever so slightly towards the side of the road, snapping and biting at the box all the way..and BTW, this thing wasn't really "little" he probably weighed about 10-15 pounds, and I am guessing he was about 18 inches long. And he wasn't going down without a fight. Finally after what seemed like an eternity (cars are really piling up now, and I am sure the folks that could see us were laughing their butts off at us.), the little SOB finally gets to the side of the road. One good push would have sent him flying down the hill to his previous residence. But we were so ticked off at him by then, and he was facing us with his mouth wide open(could have fit a golf ball in it easily.), so we let nature take over and left him there. He was on his own.

It doesn't pay to be an ingrate. Remember that..

I have been known to stop and take turtles out of the middle of the road (but not on a highway). But, you are braver than me -- I'm not messing with a snapping turtle.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I have been known to stop and take turtles out of the middle of the road (but not on a highway). But, you are braver than me -- I'm not messing with a snapping turtle.

I can't take too much credit..if I had known the little sucka was gonna try to bite, I may have just kept on going. Good thing for him, I didn't know. He was one ugly dude..

 

[GothTink]

That was such a great story! Thanks for rescuing Mr. Pissy Pants.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Cut Shelly some slack. Froggy told his pond pals that humans like turtle soup.

 

[FSUDisneyGirl]

You're great!

I rescued a parakeet in a parking lot. It had obviously escaped from someone's house, and it was hopping around in the POURING rain! I moved it to a safer, drier place!

 

[CajunDixie]

Saving animals can be profitable!!! There's a lady somewhere in Michigan offering a reward for anyone that finds her tortoise!! The article was on CNN US News and came out of a Detroit link. The reward is $500!!!!!!


Found the article: http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/17664565/detail.html

 

[chisnpeke]

Wait, you held up traffic to try and get a turtle out of the road? I'm sure the other people in those cars were not laughing.

I've done it. I don't give a damn if people behind me are mad about it. They can get over it.

 

[EMom]

maybeeeee...

HEY!!!! That is the exact dress MY Chrissy wore! I loved that doll, even though I inadvertantly torched her.

 

[Stitchfans]

It happens all the time here in Florida, and every time I have "rescued" a turtle from the road, everyone always stops, then once the rescue is over, they usually pass slowly and give me a thumbs up!

Whats wrong with taking 30 seconds out of your life to save some poor turtle from getting smashed by a truck?

And I too am usually snapped at or at least hissed at!

Can't tell you how happy it makes me feel to hear something like this, and the OP story. Lately it has been starting to feel like a every man for himself world. or in this case turtle.

 

[jen0610]

Wait, you held up traffic to try and get a turtle out of the road? I'm sure the other people in those cars were not laughing.

I sure wish someone would have held up traffic to help get the 2 gray and 2 red foxes off of the road, instead hitting them. In the last 3 weeks, we have seen a huge increase in dead animals. These 4 made us mad, as they were not small foxes and who ever hit them had to have seen them and just didn't care.

 

[missj1975]

I sure wish someone would have held up traffic to help get the 2 gray and 2 red foxes off of the road, instead hitting them. In the last 3 weeks, we have seen a huge increase in dead animals. These 4 made us mad, as they were not small foxes and who ever hit them had to have seen them and just didn't care.

You don't know that. Sometimes it is impossible to avoid animals. I have accidently hit a racoon and a deer and trust me I would have avoided the animals if I could have.

 

[MN Vikings Fan]

I sure wish someone would have held up traffic to help get the 2 gray and 2 red foxes off of the road, instead hitting them. In the last 3 weeks, we have seen a huge increase in dead animals. These 4 made us mad, as they were not small foxes and who ever hit them had to have seen them and just didn't care.

Do you remember the poll on here a few weeks back about whether or not you would swerve to avoid hitting a dog or a cat? Some sickos posted that they would try to hit the dogs or cats on purpose. Pathetic minds some humans have.

 

[Mel6197]

Yup, Driving down a main road, There is a momma goose, and her babies..You Bet I stop my car and the other 3 lanes stop to let them pass. Might take 5min for all the little ones to get across,

 

[Mellie2162]

Oh my this sounds like DH. He is always moving turtles, frogs, snakes or whatever out of the road. He's been hissed and snapped at so many times now. He usually takes his foot and moves the snappers along and then gets in the car and fusses all the way down the road about how ungrateful it was. Once he stopped for a bull frog that was so big it took up the entire line in the middle of the road. He said he wanted to keep it and play with it for a while but he had to go to work so he just moved it and went on.