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Title: Clemson student's turtle project takes dark twist
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URL Source: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/12 ... tle-project.html#storylink=cpy
Published: Dec 29, 2012
Author: JEFFREY COLLINS
Post Date: 2012-12-29 19:42:22 by Jethro Tull
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CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson University student Nathan Weaver just wanted to put together a project to help figure out the best way to assist turtles in crossing the road. But he also ended up with a peek into the dark souls of some human beings. Weaver put realistic-looking rubber turtles, no bigger than a saucer, in the middle of a lane on a busy road near campus. Then he got out of the way and watched as over the next hour, seven drivers intentionally ran over the turtle, and several more appeared to try to hit the defenseless animal, but missed. Poster Comment: Paging Turtle......
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#1. To: Jethro Tull, Turtle (#0)
Let this be a lesson to you, Turtle. Don't fall out in the road.
Just wow JT. We can hope for a better New Year can't we ? Happy New Year all. Happy New Year to you too.
This Happy New Year crap is way more lame than is the Merry Christmas stuff. So stupid to me. But, I guess that I could be mistaken... “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken I was raised near the largest lake in Illinois, which is so old it's only about four feet deep. Every year snapping turtles would cross a highway to lay eggs. I used to pick them up and carry them across the road. People generally didn't run them over but I've seen more than one squashed one. "Have Brain, Will Travel
When I see snapping turtles crossing the road, we pick 'em up, take 'em home and coat 'em in seasoned flour and slow cook them in a covered cast iron skillet for about 4 hours. Not much meat on 'em, but they sure are tasty.
Don't blame me. I didn't vote.
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."
D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#3. To: tom007 (#2)
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."
D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#4. To: James Deffenbach, tom, JT, 4 (#3)
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#6. To: Turtle (#5)
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