Turtle Flat

Badger_South wrote:
:: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:47:47 -0400, "Roger Zoul"
:: wrote:
::
::: Mike Kruger wrote:
::::: From my brother in law:
:::::
::::: "Oh sure, while on your bike you've been hit by police cars and
::::: downpours, but can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a
::::: big snapper very, very slowly making his way across the road.
::::: With all the traffic he's a definite goner. Me, I pull up and try
::::: to prod him along with my front wheel, until he bites the tire
::::: and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he
::::: ****es all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as
::::: I can throw the ******* and start walking home."
:::
::: How would you like it is someone tried to prod you along with the
::: front wheel of a bike?
:::
::
:: I'm prodding myself along with the uh, wheels of a bike.

Yeah, but how would you like if I prodded you along? You'd be in "kick his
ass" mode really quick.

"Roger Zoul" wrote:

Badger_South wrote:
:: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:47:47 -0400, "Roger Zoul"
:: wrote:
::
::: Mike Kruger wrote:
::::: From my brother in law:
:::::
::::: "Oh sure, while on your bike you've been hit by police cars and
::::: downpours, but can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a
::::: big snapper very, very slowly making his way across the road.
::::: With all the traffic he's a definite goner. Me, I pull up and try
::::: to prod him along with my front wheel, until he bites the tire
::::: and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he
::::: ****es all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as
::::: I can throw the ******* and start walking home."
:::
::: How would you like it is someone tried to prod you along with the
::: front wheel of a bike?
:::
::
:: I'm prodding myself along with the uh, wheels of a bike.

Yeah, but how would you like if I prodded you along? You'd be in "kick his
ass" mode really quick.

That's why you should never let anyone catch you from behind...

Mark "not that there's anything wrong with that" Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame

Mike Kruger wrote:

From my brother in law:

"Oh sure, while on your bike you've been hit by police cars and downpours, but
can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a big snapper very, very slowly
making his way across the road. With all the traffic he's a definite goner.
Me, I pull up and try to prod him along with my front wheel, until he bites the
tire and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he ****es
all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as I can throw the
******* and start walking home."

No good deed ever goes unpunished.
That is funny!

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado
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"Mike Kruger" wrote in message
...
From my brother in law:

"Oh sure, while on your bike you've been hit by police cars and downpours,
but
can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a big snapper very, very
slowly
making his way across the road. With all the traffic he's a definite
goner.
Me, I pull up and try to prod him along with my front wheel, until he
bites the
tire and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he
****es
all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as I can throw the
******* and start walking home."

I'll remember to bypass these fellows when I meet them on the trails!

I'm not so concerned about the turtles as I am the snakes who like to sun
themselves on the trails. I always have visions of these things getting
wrapped up in my tires.

I have been involved in 3 turtle rescues over the past few years. Two horkin'
big snapping turtles and a box turtle. Those snappers are impressive, aren't
they? It still amazes me that they live in relatively suburban areas.

Joel

Subject: Turtle Flat
From: mmm (Mike Kruger)
Date: 10/26/2004 9:55 PM US Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

From my brother in law:

"Oh sure, while on your bike you've been hit by police cars and downpours,
but
can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a big snapper very, very
slowly
making his way across the road. With all the traffic he's a definite goner.
Me, I pull up and try to prod him along with my front wheel, until he bites
the
tire and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he ****es
all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as I can throw the
******* and start walking home."


I just slide turtles off the side of the road with my foot....Duh

By the way you don't want to handle turtles, they are salmonella carriers.

On 06 Nov 2004 17:35:40 GMT, Fx199 wrote:
Subject: Turtle Flat
From: mmm (Mike Kruger)
Date: 10/26/2004 9:55 PM US Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

From my brother in law:

"Oh sure, while on your bike you've been hit by police cars and downpours,
but
can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a big snapper very, very
slowly
making his way across the road. With all the traffic he's a definite goner.
Me, I pull up and try to prod him along with my front wheel, until he bites
the
tire and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he ****es
all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as I can throw the
******* and start walking home."


I just slide turtles off the side of the road with my foot....Duh

I wouldn't recommend that with a big snapper. They can inflict some
major damage!

By the way you don't want to handle turtles, they are salmonella carriers.

That's a good point!

--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry
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Subject: Turtle Flat
From: Neil Cherry
Date: 11/6/2004 1:46 PM US Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

On 06 Nov 2004 17:35:40 GMT, Fx199 wrote:
Subject: Turtle Flat
From: mmm (Mike Kruger)
Date: 10/26/2004 9:55 PM US Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

From my brother in law:

"Oh sure, while on your bike you've been hit by police cars and downpours,
but
can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a big snapper very, very
slowly
making his way across the road. With all the traffic he's a definite
goner.
Me, I pull up and try to prod him along with my front wheel, until he bites
the
tire and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he
****es
all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as I can throw the
******* and start walking home."


I just slide turtles off the side of the road with my foot....Duh

I wouldn't recommend that with a big snapper. They can inflict some
major damage!

By the way you don't want to handle turtles, they are salmonella carriers.

That's a good point!

--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry
http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ (Text only)
http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II)
http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog

I feel good about rescuing turtles. I scoot them across with my foot at the
tail end.
Usually they will tuck in and glare at you, and let you scoot them across.
Snappers of course posture and hiss more than the other kinds.

On 06 Nov 2004 03:24:33 GMT, ntispam (Joel Solomon)
wrote:

I have been involved in 3 turtle rescues over the past few years. Two horkin'
big snapping turtles and a box turtle. Those snappers are impressive, aren't
they? It still amazes me that they live in relatively suburban areas.

Joel

First time my former wife saw on crossing a road in south Florida, she
thought it was an alien creature. lol

Michael J. Klein
Dasi Jen, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC
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"Michael J. Klein" wrote in message
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On 06 Nov 2004 03:24:33 GMT, ntispam (Joel Solomon)
wrote:

I have been involved in 3 turtle rescues over the past few years. Two
horkin'
big snapping turtles and a box turtle. Those snappers are impressive,
aren't
they? It still amazes me that they live in relatively suburban areas.

First time my former wife saw on crossing a road in south Florida, she
thought it was an alien creature. lol

I see them a lot along the river trail. Much of the geography lines up like
this:

| Sports fields/Parkland| |MUP| |shore vegetation| |old man river|

For reasons known only to turtles they make a trek from the river to the
parkland/sportsfields in rain and at dusk. [someone suggested they might be
going to nest and lay eggs]

And they are BIG bruisers. I'm guessing they probably mass at ~5 kg. Ornery
too. I stopped once and tried nudging one with my shoe and 'he' pivoted with
his back foot swung around somehow and latched on with his forleg and bit my
shoe!

--
elaine: 'It shrinks?!?'
george: 'Like a frightened turtle.'