[nynor]

i've seen several unfortunate turtles in my travels.

my father stopped the car in a torrential downpour in kentucky. i was about four. he gets out, dashes across the road, in traffic and about two inches of standing water, runs back with something in his hands, which looks suspiciously like a very large turtle. opens the trunk, closes the trunk, and hops back into the car.

we lived for three days with an enormous snapping turtle in the tub. alive. and angry. my mother finally put her foot down and the turtle was released into the stream by our apartment building.