[Corrie22]

Originally Posted by Thundarr457

I looked it up and it was a softshell turtle.

be careful picking them up....they have extremely long necks....can turn around and bite the living daylights out of you

[beach43ofus]

I had one of those burrowing under the mulch in my yard around some shrubs. I figured it was a female trying to lay eggs.

I shooed it away with a rake...but it was stubborn and didn't want to go.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by bale002

One day while driving my car, a tiny flying insect landed on the windshield. Instead of squashing it with the wiper blades, I pulled over onto a patch of grass, found a leaf, let the bug latch on to it, and gently set it down in the grass.

Geez, bugs usually smash themselves on your windshield when they land.

[Thundarr457]

Originally Posted by Corrie22

be careful picking them up....they have extremely long necks....can turn around and bite the living daylights out of you

I wore heavy duty leather work gloves. I think she was exhausted from being out of the water so long and was happy to get a ride back.

[Thundarr457]

Its six weeks hence and I am still recovering. Yesterday I was coming home from the store and a mother duck and her babies were crossing the road. Instinctively I stopped because I didn't want to run them over and a Porsche behind me almost ran into me. I didn't hit them but a car going fast in the other direction flattened them. It was a horrifying sight.

[ben young]

Originally Posted by bale002

One day while driving my car, a tiny flying insect landed on the windshield. Instead of squashing it with the wiper blades, I pulled over onto a patch of grass, found a leaf, let the bug latch on to it, and gently set it down in the grass.

As I write this your medal is in the mail.

[Thundarr457]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bnpgd2Ui8fR3aAHY6

The Turtle

[mojo101]

Once I saved a boy-
In Arizona,some of us were standing around a small stream and a boy was carrying his chubby sister across while their mother was high up the hill watching.
The weight of his sister was too much and he was drowning,as we watched,we thought it was like an underwater show with his mouth open and close and the sister clutching onto his head and cried .
Then I realised it is not funny,so I walked over and remove chubby from his shoulder,so he can get up and breathe.
My colleagues while they did nothing,later told me if I did not act,he could have drowned ,so could chubby girl?
No one thanks me,the mother with a heavy Eastern European accent was still up in the hills screaming.
I saved a life,so it should add to my Karma +

[SanyBelle]

Originally Posted by Thundarr457

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bnpgd2Ui8fR3aAHY6

The Turtle

I don't see a turtle in that picture.

[Travelassie]

I never saved a turtle ( other than driving around one on the road, or stopping to let it get across a quiet street in a residential neighborhood) but I sure startled one, and it startled me in our back yard some years ago.

We think this was a female Florida leatherback turtle ( not sure) as she was very large and the back of her shell kinda draped over in the back, and appeared sort of leathery. The females are larger than the males.

In any case, she had made her way up to the screen around our lanai, and was checking everything out, craning her neck as she stopped, then moved on along the screen, she appeared to be looking in. Well, she moved along the length of that screen and out of our sight. After some time I went out to see if she was still around. I walked around to the back of the house, and came upon her there. We both didn't expect to see the other there- I know I was startled and the turtle sure seemed that way too. Then she tore off down the lawn towards the canal, at a speed I had no clue turtles were capable of! We never saw her after that.