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Massachusetts

TexasTowelie

(117,050 posts) Tue Nov 13, 2018, 11:31 AM Nov 2018

Turtle weighing nearly 500 pounds rescued on Massachusetts beach

Volunteers have rescued a massive leatherback turtle off a Massachusetts beach.

The Cape Cod Times reported the turtle was spotted on First Encounter Beach in Eastham at around 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Director Robert Prescott says the juvenile turtle weighed between 400 and 500 pounds. It took six volunteers to take it off the beach.

Prescott said leatherbacks are the largest of all sea turtles, and can weigh up to 2,000 pounds.

Read more: https://www.eagletribune.com/news/turtle-weighing-nearly-pounds-rescued-on-massachusetts-beach/article_9fd0080e-e757-11e8-822b-e3ecb515d873.html

Okay, I gave the setup. I'm waiting for the punchline...

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Turtle weighing nearly 500 pounds rescued on Massachusetts beach (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP

Mitch!! Are you OK?? Man, I was WORRIED about ya! lastlib Nov 2018 #1

Can we gather six volunteers to go down to Washington DC and drown the McTurtle... magicarpet Apr 2019 #2

I wouldn't eat that soup...! (But I'd volunteer for the expedition.) lastlib Apr 2019 #3

lastlib

(24,949 posts)

1. Mitch!! Are you OK?? Man, I was WORRIED about ya!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Nov 13, 2018, 12:07 PM

Nov 2018

but (more) seriously, if it had been Mitch McTurdle, they shouldn't have gone to all that trouble.......

magicarpet

(16,626 posts)

2. Can we gather six volunteers to go down to Washington DC and drown the McTurtle...

Reply to lastlib (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 3, 2019, 08:11 PM

Apr 2019

....in the Potomac.. so his beached white ass is out of the US Senate ? Turtle soup and lobster for everyone with champagne.

lastlib

(24,949 posts)

3. I wouldn't eat that soup...! (But I'd volunteer for the expedition.)

Reply to magicarpet (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 3, 2019, 11:11 PM

Apr 2019

Imagine trying to chew that sh*t?

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