I was just cooling down from a 3 mile run. I was walking around the lake near my house and I saw a little turtle crossing the street. The little guy was just sitting in the middle of the street, so I walked over to pick him up and put him by the lake when I saw a SUV coming.
I know you see where this is going.
I decided, stupidly, to let the car go by thinking that the driver would go around the turtle. Nope. The bitch ran right over it. I hope her vagina rots until the smell makes even her children not want to be around her. I know she saw the turtle and she certainly saw me. And there are signs everywhere warning of wildlife crossing.
Murderer.
So, now I have some serious guilt. I should have made the woman stop and wait for me to put the little turtle by the lake instead of giving her any fucking credit for having a soul. But, I know I can’t save the world and in these moments I remember The Lion King and the circle of life. The little turtle will feed the birds and other animals.
But, this is a lesson to all. One moment of hesitation can change something. I could have saved a turtle today. And I didn’t.
Oh, and to the lady in the red SUV. Bitch, if I ever see you again I will spit on you. Or throw goose shit at you.
Fresh Air Lover 
Poor turtle. It’s sad I read about something like this and i tear up. I read people’s obituaries everyday (for work) and I’m hardly phased at all. I’ve always wanted to open like a save haven type place for animals. Maybe someday I’ll have the money to do it.
I would love to open up a place for animals. Luckily the turtle was small. We have huge turtles around that lake that are probably really old. If it was one of them, I would have followed the lady home.
I have nearly wrecked my car on several occasions while trying to avoid an animal in the road. There is no reason to run over an defenseless animal when it’s in our power to avoid it. Jerk!
One time, some kids at my old church had a pet turtle that died. They brought the dead turtle to church and I made my husband go to children’s church and do a funeral for it in his robe and all! He loved me so much! Tee hee.
I’ve nearly wrecked my car too. I just have a profound respect for all living things, except flies. I hate flies.
OMFG I’d be so motherfucking pissed! We have so many squirrels in my neighborhood that it makes me a nervous wreck. I don’t even like squirrels, fucking tree rats, but I don’t want to kill anything either so they always give me a heart attack when they run one direction and then suddenly reverse course back to the other side (probably because their home tree is in that direction). But even with that if you pay attention and care, you can avoid them. And a turtle is about a million times slower so she was a straight douchebag. Grrrr.
She is a straight douchebag. I feed the squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, birds, and strays in my yard. The neighbors hate it, but fuck them. I even put water out when it hasn’t rained in a few days. I’m a bit psycho.
I’ve been seeing a lot of dead turtles lately. I never remember seeing them in past years. My husband is a biologist and actually does bog turtle surveys in our area.
I know that turtles are always trying to get back to where they were born. I watch a show about them. I think that people move the turtles or they get swept up in the rain or whatever and then they try to get home.
Oh, how horrible!!! I hit a tiny chipmunk completely by accident on Saturday morning and I couldn’t stop thinking about it all day. I saw it run out in the road, I hit my brakes, and it started to run the other way, and I thought it would make it. I have more compassion for animals than people most of the time. That woman in the SUV will get hers. Karma is a bitch.
Oh yeah, if I saw someone get hit by a truck I would be all like “What the hell were they doing out in the street.” Animals are just living their lives. We’re the ones who are destroying their natural habitat. I hit a rabbit once and you should have seen me. The thing flew out in front of me and hit my bumper. I stopped, but the poor baby was dead. I picked the rabbit up and put it in a field that was across the street. I figured the hawks and vultures would have an easier time eating it without getting hit themselves.
I understand the impulse to save the animals, and in your situation I’d probably have done the same thing… Hell if she was ok with hitting the turtle she was probably too busy talking on her cell phone about her botched tummy tuck while eating a cheeseburger. If you’d gone into the road she could very easily have hit you!
You just carry around goose shit to throw at people?
She probably would have hit me or beeped or something. Oh, and there are geese around this lake and goose shit is everywhere. I don’t carry it around with me, but that might not be a bad idea since so many people deserve to have goose shit thrown at them.
She will pay…karma always makes sure of that.
I hope so.
Hopefully the turtle put a slow leak in her tire and it will go flat when she’s out of cell-phone range.
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I’m still angry about this by the way. Which is probably a sign of mental illness since I didn’t even see it happen!
On my run yesterday, I was dreading going by the crime scene. But, a nice neighbor had cleaned up the mess. He told me that he saw it happen too and the woman lives a few streets down. He said the next time he saw her he was going to “tear up her ass” about it. I told him to bring some goose shit.
K and I were heading to WalMart and saw a turtle trying to cross the road too! I told him we should turn back and help it get across but by the time we got turned around it was already turtle smush.
Stupid SUV – we saw it coming and hoped it would miss it.
Clearly she’s a self-absorbed bitch that probably had Starbucks in one hand and a cell phone in the other! I think many, not all, but many drivers of SUV’s think it’s their God given right to do whatever they want on the road because they drive SUV’s. Make a note, those bitches will tip in a skinny minute and don’t hold a candle to the front end of a semi…maybe that woman will meet one.
It is senseless and unnecessary to harm any sort of life. I can say that I will brake for all animals, but to be honest, if braking or swerving is going to cause me to eat the front or back end of another car, I’m sorry, I have to choose the animal over me and I hate that.
Don’t feel guilty, you gave her the benefit of the doubt and those things happen. Karma is a bad ass bitch and always makes her rounds.
This weekend, seriously, I took my daughter and a freind to the park for a picnic. While we, and several other families and small children ate and played, an old man wandered over, I thought, following a mole. I called the kids over to see the little critter, never imaging the HORROR of what was to come.
The old man picked the mole up by its tail and held it up to the girls, which I didn’t love so I started to call them away. The man then proceeded to SMASH the mole on the ground. Now, I am yelling for all the kids to come away…this is a PLAYGROUND, and the old man puts his foot over the mole’s head to crush it! That sent me into a frenzy, so I am yelling for the kids to get away and the old man to STOP! He was just vacantly smiled the whole time, his foot perched above the motionless mole’s head.
After all the parents swooped in for their kids, he just picked up the mole by its tail and walked away with it. He was obviously not totally there. It was terrible.
I hit a rabbit once. It was just standing on the side of the road and I slowed down but it darted out behind my front wheels and I ran over it with the back ones. I could not get it out of my mind for a few days I felt so freaking bad because I probably should have blasted my horn and scared it back into the woods. Then the other day I stopped to let a mother duck and her little babies cross the street. Very cute. How I wish that somehow we could keep the animals of fof the streets!
You should have picked up that squished carcass and threw it at her car. What a hose bag!
Ahhh hearing stories like these just make me sick!
God put animals here for us to use with respect, enjoy and protect..not carelessly kill!!
Speaking of that mole story reminds me of when I lived in Italy and a guy found a mole and tied a string around it’s tail..then he brought it over to us and thought it was just hilarious to watch the mole burrowing itself into the ground to get away, but then pulling it straight out as soon as it burrowed itslef in.
The guy did this over and over again until the mole got so tired it just quit and gave up.
I love my Italians but they just totally do not have the respect for animals that they are given here in America!
Are you sure she saw it? Poor turtle! One time, this stupid French guy I know went camping with some of our other friends and I heard he stuck a stick right in the center of a turtle and held its body halfway over a roaring fire!
I would have hurt that dude so bad !