Right after I got married I had borrowed a 5 gallon bucket from work and I was going to work one morning with the bucket in the bed of the El Camino. On a fairly busy road a saw a Box Turtle, or more accurately a Terrapin. I rescued it from almost certain death in the road, and put it in the bucket and went to work.
I knew my bosses wife was into terrapins and had one in her back yard and even made specaial food for it. So I gave her the terrapin and did not think about it anymore. The very next day, just blocks from the office I saw another terrapin heading towards a busy road and certain death. I just put it in the bed of the El Camino and drove the three blocks to work. I handed it to the bosses wife. She was thrilled.
The next day she came in and said she had named the terrapins after my wife and I. They were from areas of town 15 miles apart or more, but they were the same species. She said as soon as she set the second down in the back yard it got together with the first one and went to humping. She said they were having sex like a newlywed couple, which I was at the time.
She had lots of eggs, and in short order 8 babies. She had to really work to keep he back yard escape proof. Those turtles er terrapins lived life on easy street. After a few years she grew tired of the work needed to keep them so she released them in a wildlife area behind their house.
I found out later it is illegal to keep wildlife like that as a pet, but certainly no harm was done and just some more babies were made. They would have surly been killed by traffic so we saved them and a second generation.
They were Red Eared Sliders which are common to Oklahoma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eared_slider