Turtles Eating Things

Snapping Turtles – do they really want to hurt you? do they really want to make you cry?

1968 – detective, Prune Tracey is working on the disappearance of Jimmy Nine-Fingers, a known mob can collector and part time snitch. It’s been two and a half weeks with nothing, not a word. On a hunch, Prune orders a search of the lake. Most likely Jimmy Nine-Fingers has been sleeping with the fishes. Problem is – he’s been down there a while. Not a floater, see. Activate pre-MacGyver-styles.

Body finding kit: 2 avocados, ball of string, lit match and a snapping turtle..

Big Snapping Turtle

Snapping Turtles don’t have teeth, but they have a crazy McCracken style hooked beak that will snap your hands off if you give them half a chance. Anything that gets in the way of their little snappy face and SNAP they grab onto it. Detectives used to tie string around their shells and let them off into the lake until snappy starts munching on old Nine-Fingers and stops moving around. Found.

Little Snapping Turtle

Fun fact – the original plot for Gremlins involved regular pet turtles that get turned into snapping turtles and go around killing all these people. The opening scene was a backyard pool with a little snapping turtle at the bottom that kills the main kid’s sister. But then they wanted to make it PG so they took out the killing and gore. That left them with a microwave and little teddy bear animals that didn’t eat anybody.

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