Taken from [url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090919/tuk-tortoise-safe-after-motorway-drama-6323e80.html]here[/url]:
[quote]A tortoise with a taste for life in the fast lane was rescued from a busy motorway after dodging up to six lanes of traffic against the odds.
The tortoise was plucked from the M23 slip road at junction seven of the M25 by site engineer John Formby of Worthing, West Sussex.
After taking it to the vet, Mr Formby was surprised to discover the animal was micro-chipped in America and thousands of miles from his original home.
He said: "As I got to the top of the slip road I noticed something in the road. At first I thought it was debris, but as I was getting nearer I saw a head and realised it was in fact a tortoise. My initial reaction was 'What the hell is a tortoise doing on a motorway?'
"I thought it might cause an accident with people trying to avoid it so I pulled over, put my hazard lights on and ran 400 yards down the hard shoulder.
"Some other cars were coming up and a couple went round the tortoise. Two cars and a van drove straight over it, straddling it, but it didn't go back into its shell.
"By the time I'd run back, it had got into the slow lane. I ran out picked it up and put it into the foot well of my car."
Mr Formby, 43, stopped off at a supermarket to buy it some tomatoes and lettuce before dropping it into Grove Lodge Veterinary Hospital in Worthing on Wednesday afternoon.
He said: "It was shocking to find it on a motorway, I was really surprised. When I was a child I found a tortoise in a cemetery and it brought back those memories."
Billy Elliott, of Worthing and District Animal Rescue Service said the tortoise had been nicknamed Freeway, the American word for motorway.[/quote]
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[img]http://d.yimg.com/i/ng/ne/skynews/20090918/14/236776688-concern-grows-skateboarding-tortoise.jpg[/img]
Any relation?
Yeah, we were right, that hardcore motherfucker did run away from home.
What a badass.
turtle power
:h:
Nice story.
[QUOTE=Links;17386229]Yeah, we were right, that hardcore motherfucker did run away from home.
What a badass.[/QUOTE]
[I]We?[/I]
:smugdog:
Taking people's credit now, are we?
So where was he 1,000 miles from, they didn't include it as far I can tell..
[QUOTE=Dantai;17386529]So where was he 1,000 miles from, they didn't include it as far I can tell..[/QUOTE]
After taking it to the vet, Mr Formby was surprised to discover the animal was micro-chipped in [b]America[/b] and thousands of miles from his original home.
[quote]He said: "As I got to the top of the slip road I noticed something in the road. At first I thought it was debris, but as I was getting nearer I saw a head and realised it was in fact a tortoise. My initial reaction was 'What the hell is a tortoise doing on a motorway?'[/quote]
This made me laugh out loud.
Awesome tortoise is awesome. I doubt we'll ever know how the fuck it managed to dodge 6 lanes of traffic... that said, statistically it'll eventually happen, so I guess this is the one out of the 100000 that ever have been on a motorway with 6 lanes of traffic and this is the one that wasn't crushed.
Turtles are so fucking badass. This guy deserves a gold star for saving one.
What a badass
:patriot:
I dawed. But, it can always cause a car crash. Everyone tries to avoid it, and ends up crashing somewhere. lol
cool
How did it get across the Atlantic?
:3:
So when my mom told me my pet turtle ran away, it was true?
I always thought he had died.
Fuck, even turtles want to leave our country. :saddowns:
Why do I see a turtle driving a pimp mobile nodding his head at everyone?
[QUOTE=SomeGuest;17392296]Fuck, even turtles want to leave our country. :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
Fuck that he was starting the invasion.
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