To: JAMES BALLARD
Subject: Running over turtles :)
JB>Have you ever run over a turtle before??  That's pretty cool because the
JB>shell flips off the turtle and twirls on the road like an old hubcap.  
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JB> have been known to make interesting *THUNK* sounds, but that's uncommon.
  Turtles and I go way back. They were some of my most prized childhood
  pets; so I NEVER run over them. I have been known to risk life and
  limb in traffic  to rescue them, moreso the non-snapper ones. :-)
  OTOH, I deliberately aimed at a groundhog once, then backed up to try
  to hit it again. We were in a high-rabies area at the height of an
  epidemic, and it was acting crazy, attacking cars on the road. I hit
  it once, but it managed to drag itself off the road. Either way, it
  was doomed, but I think I shortened its suffering.
JB>My  dad was a truck driver and he once hit a deer in his semi.  Almost
JB>jackknifed, but he managed to cream the deer and keep on with only a
JB>moment'  stop to check for damage.
  He would have stopped longer for a bull moose. :-) We have deer
  strikes around here every year, and most autos get creamed, along with
  the deer. But at least we're not as bad as PA., where I counted 53
  deer corpses as we travelled the interstate in the fall. Whew!
JB>Pretty cool, huh?? :)
  Nah, I don't enjoy killing for sport, nor like the damage to people
  and vehicles, real or monetary.
                         ...Sandra...
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