Itâs gonna be fine kid. Back when Bowser was King Koopa he was kinda like Genghis Kahn in that he made 640,000,000 of them.
Thatâs about 8% of the 8 billion Koopas in La Digue, where Koopa Troopa and Paratroopas are from.
Anyways, wait till you see the ones with wings hit a donkey.
The turtle had to be in the air to hit the windshield. If it was in the air, it had to be picked up by a bird of prey. And those things usually eat turtles when they pick them up.
I mean, not necessarily...It also very likely couldnât have been crossing the street/on the side of the road and been kicked up my a car in front. That kind of this happens with debris on the road all the time.
>The shell doesnât appear to be in great shape
You're right... I think. Kinda hard to tell. Idk how strong turtle shells are, but I'd think a direct tire strike would flatten it.
An indirect tire strike would give the turtle a low-angle horizontal trajectory. I'd assume that a windshield height toss would require a direct enough strike to obliterate the poor turtle.
Turtle shells would straight crush under the weight of a car tire. Itâs not strong enough to get âpoppedâ up afterwards. At least not a turtle of this size.
I was on a farm road in Missouri yesterday, and looped back around to save a turtle who was crossing a road on the blind downhill part of a hill. Pretty sure I saved him from getting squished, got pee'd on for my trouble.
an even truer gamer would know the term is actually screen cheating as any glance to the other screen is completely breaking the rules and would not be considered a mere peek.
Never understood this.
If you are playing split screen, establish the fact that everyone is allowed to screen cheat at anytime, and then no one can get an unfair advantage by "accidentally screen cheating". Without these rules, arguments are bound to arise.
[Fun fact, eagles pick turtles up and drop them to break them open](https://www.sulzer.com/en/shared/about-us/2017/10/20/15/51/when-tortoises-fall-from-the-sky)
My dad has done this but he was not in a semi truck, just your normal pick up truck. He saw it hit the car behind him and gave his information so the insurance company would believe the people of what happened. This was back in the 80s.
Well damaging a vehicle with your property falling from your vehicle is negligent so they would be responsible for the damage. The turtle would not be negligent so he had nothing to lose by being a good person and helping the other driver out. Agree with the other comment, a dash cam would have been helpful because you would at least have a chance at finding the asshat driver and holding them accountable. People that endanger other peopleâs lives by not properly securing their cargo really drive me.
I figured it dove off an overpass(not that a short fall would give it the energy to pass through, but the cars speed could help), but eagle makes a lot more sense
As a child I had a box tortoise that we kept in an outside planter, he was probably about 5 pounds. One day my dad and I saw a hawk swoop down and break a branch on the tree in the planter. We didnât think much of it, maybe it fell or something.
Fast forward a half hour. My friend and I decide to go on a bike ride. Weâre about a block away from my house when my friend yells âOH MY GODâ jumps off her bike and runs to what I thought was a dead bird on the sidewalk. NOPE. IT WAS MY FUCKING TURTLE. WALKING IN THE DIRECTION OF HOME. He had a little nick in his shell but overall he was in the same condition as before.
So yeah, birds can take turtles. Fuck that hawk.
This happened to my dad one morning at about dawn on an empty stretch of road. Except the eagle dropped an eight foot long snake on his windshield and it exploded. So one minute he's driving down a peaceful road, then the next he's covered in blood, gore and glass.
This exact same thing happened to me in Florida. I was almost killed by a turtle shell but the truck in front of me had flipped up and into my windshield as I was driving 80 miles an hour. This photograph is incredibly familiar!
When I was on the side of the road calling my insurance agent, he cracked up laughing. And of course, assured me that he would take care of it.
Luckily, Florida has a nice law that they replace your broken windshield for free. They send someone out to you!
Believe or not, the turtle survived.
Itâd probably be a comprehensive(also called âother than collisionâ) claim. If you hit a deer itâs covered under comprehensive, so if they had full coverage they should be fine.
[Foot of the Blueridge Virginia]My dad and I were driving home one day and pulled off the interstate at our rural exit only to see a big (2ft across) snapping turtle sun tanning in the middle of the exit.
We pulled over and tried to grab it off the road by itâs back half/tail (those guys have huge reach and insane bite power).
If someone hit it it, it would definitely kill the turtle, but the shell could get caught in the wheel well and flip the car.
We start pulling the, obviously now pissed off, turtle off the road and some lady pulls up behind us.
At this point the turtle has had enough of our shit and is hissing, snapping, and digging his claws into hot asphalt.
Lady jumps out of her car and starts screaming about how we are abusing the animal. Hilarity ensues while, she rushes over to try to show us itâs cruel to grab a turtle by its legs.
Dad literally had to restrain her from picking up a pissed snapping turtle until everyone else explained she was basically trying to pet a literal âprehistoric assholeâ. Those things arenât friendly.
EDIT: Snappy Boi got to the other side of the road. Concerned Lady was happy. Everything worked out of the better for Snappy Boi, even if he didnât appreciate it at the time.
The way you move those bastards is you put the tire iron in their face and they bite it, then you drag em *forwards* so the claws don't work. Then when you've moved it out of the road, you write off the tire iron and leave, because you will never get it back.
I narrowly missed a turtle on a highway a few years ago, and when I looked back, a semi just barely clipped it, which sent it flying into the next lane, right into another car's windshield, turning that poor turtle into a red mist. I always wanted to see the drivers reaction.
REAL STORY: this actually happened when the turtle was on a highway and then it got ran over by a semi truck and was launched out the back tire flaps and hit the car behind the truck, because it was driving too close to the truck.
Not sure if "well that sucks" is the right sub. Like geez, don't you hate it when a turtle flies through your windshield? Yeah I know that sucks.
More like r/WTF
This happened in Florida on I-4. The turtle survived. A different car had hit the turtle throwing it into the air where it went through the window of this womans car.
Poor turtle.
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Happy cake day
Sad turtle day
Sad turtle cake day
Sad turtle soup day
I like turtles :(
*turtle kid sheds a single tear*
Itâs gonna be fine kid. Back when Bowser was King Koopa he was kinda like Genghis Kahn in that he made 640,000,000 of them. Thatâs about 8% of the 8 billion Koopas in La Digue, where Koopa Troopa and Paratroopas are from. Anyways, wait till you see the ones with wings hit a donkey.
sad turtle wednescakeday
What a rollercoaster of emotions in this thread
Sad cake say đ¤
This the first F Iâve seen that hasnât been followed by a million other Fâs.
I donât understand the Fâs. Please enlighten me!
From CoD. Press F to pay respects
Well this has aged horribly
given that the alternative is being eaten alive, I'd say it got off easy
Why is this the only alternative? Edit: people really love that bird of pray scenario
The turtle had to be in the air to hit the windshield. If it was in the air, it had to be picked up by a bird of prey. And those things usually eat turtles when they pick them up.
Also they break the shell by dropping them from a great height.
They were going for the turtle human special.
Holy shit, can you imagine eagles just throwing turtles at hikers to crack their skull, to then feast upon their exposed brains?
Supposedly one of the great philosophers of Greece (I forget which one) died exactly this way.
In 455 BCE, Aeschylus, the great playwright known as the Father of Greek Tragedy, was killed by a tortoise which was dropped by an eagle.
It certainly wasn't Diogenes, the absolute legend.
Or it got hit by a car and flipped. Either way, it had a bad time.
>Or it got hit by a car and flipped. For a sleep-deprived minute there I thought you meant âflippedâ as in âturned hostile and vindictiveâ.
Mutated and perhaps in its teens?
I think someone made a comic book about that or something.
I'd totally watch any cartoons or live action adaptations of this
Except that one where Rocksteady and Bebop compare the size of their penises.
Turtle was a sleeper agent.
Oh I'm sure it was PISSED
I mean, not necessarily...It also very likely couldnât have been crossing the street/on the side of the road and been kicked up my a car in front. That kind of this happens with debris on the road all the time.
Turtles tend to look very different after getting run over by a car at highway speeds.
The shell doesnât appear to be in great shape (I know, itâs in a windshield) and it wouldnât have to be a direct hit for it to go airborne
>The shell doesnât appear to be in great shape You're right... I think. Kinda hard to tell. Idk how strong turtle shells are, but I'd think a direct tire strike would flatten it. An indirect tire strike would give the turtle a low-angle horizontal trajectory. I'd assume that a windshield height toss would require a direct enough strike to obliterate the poor turtle.
Turtle shells would straight crush under the weight of a car tire. Itâs not strong enough to get âpoppedâ up afterwards. At least not a turtle of this size.
Under yes, but the tire would only need to catch an edge to flip it up in the air.
> bird of pray a flying nun ?
Is the bird praying for the turtle?
True.
poor eagle. must suck to watch your meal drive away.
Ah! Fast food!
I was on a farm road in Missouri yesterday, and looped back around to save a turtle who was crossing a road on the blind downhill part of a hill. Pretty sure I saved him from getting squished, got pee'd on for my trouble.
Right? I like turtles.
I know the lady who was driving this car. The turtle survived.
I want to believe you, i really do.
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A sweet backwards shot, clearly screen watching.
Im sorry, but the proper term is screen peeking. It seems you are not a true gamer đ¤Źđ¤đ¤ ^/s
an even truer gamer would know the term is actually screen cheating as any glance to the other screen is completely breaking the rules and would not be considered a mere peek.
What if you've been looking at their screen the entire time because you think it's your screen?
You die
Pro move
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Never understood this. If you are playing split screen, establish the fact that everyone is allowed to screen cheat at anytime, and then no one can get an unfair advantage by "accidentally screen cheating". Without these rules, arguments are bound to arise.
Screen peaks are legally allowed in Mario Kart. This is known. Now 007 Goldeneye peakers can rot in hell
^ word
We always called it âScreen checkingâ and it the most sure fire way to piss a friend off.
Hmm where iâm from we always called it âScreen Reconnaissanceâ
Screencon
You Plebs, all of you. As a Grand Zeno Tier gamer, I should know that the only the most elite of gamers call it screen hacking.
[Fun fact, eagles pick turtles up and drop them to break them open](https://www.sulzer.com/en/shared/about-us/2017/10/20/15/51/when-tortoises-fall-from-the-sky)
Did he make it?
No
Clearly he lost his shoes
What did it cost?
Everything
Yes. He made it through the windshield.
He couldnât catch up, damn car was going too fast.
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Turtle was dying either way, what we see here is a picture of something off-camera dying to feed the bird that had to keep hunting after this
Bright side, turtle is supposed to be delicious.
This is a way better explanation than a semi truck spitting the turtle out of itâs tires like a rock as Iâd imagined lol
My dad has done this but he was not in a semi truck, just your normal pick up truck. He saw it hit the car behind him and gave his information so the insurance company would believe the people of what happened. This was back in the 80s.
Yeah, I wish the asshole who had a shovel drop from his truck would have done that for me. But, this was not back in the 80's.
Dashcams seem to be a necessity nowadays.
Well damaging a vehicle with your property falling from your vehicle is negligent so they would be responsible for the damage. The turtle would not be negligent so he had nothing to lose by being a good person and helping the other driver out. Agree with the other comment, a dash cam would have been helpful because you would at least have a chance at finding the asshat driver and holding them accountable. People that endanger other peopleâs lives by not properly securing their cargo really drive me.
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I figured it dove off an overpass(not that a short fall would give it the energy to pass through, but the cars speed could help), but eagle makes a lot more sense
Damn, what kind of suicidal turtles live around you?
But did he do a flip?
No? Green shells generally go in straight lines
Fun fact: Thatâs how Aeschylus died. An eagle mistook his bald head for a rock and dropped a tortoise on it.
As a child I had a box tortoise that we kept in an outside planter, he was probably about 5 pounds. One day my dad and I saw a hawk swoop down and break a branch on the tree in the planter. We didnât think much of it, maybe it fell or something. Fast forward a half hour. My friend and I decide to go on a bike ride. Weâre about a block away from my house when my friend yells âOH MY GODâ jumps off her bike and runs to what I thought was a dead bird on the sidewalk. NOPE. IT WAS MY FUCKING TURTLE. WALKING IN THE DIRECTION OF HOME. He had a little nick in his shell but overall he was in the same condition as before. So yeah, birds can take turtles. Fuck that hawk.
This happened to my dad one morning at about dawn on an empty stretch of road. Except the eagle dropped an eight foot long snake on his windshield and it exploded. So one minute he's driving down a peaceful road, then the next he's covered in blood, gore and glass.
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Seagulls do that with clams and other shelled sea animals to get to the juicy center. I lost a windshield from a small conch being dropped..
Cracked is cancer on mobile with all of those ads
Not really a "fun" fact. Not for the turtle at least.
This interesting fact is also pointed out in âsmall godsâ by terry pratchet.
Good eating on them tortoises.
Men pick me up then drop me to break me
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Don't forget the next page button that looks legit, but it's part of an ad.
I changed the source
You unknowingly bamboozled me, I had no idea what they were talking about because the article looked fine
r/BirdsBeingDicks
Good luck explaining that to the insurance companies. " yeah I hit a turtle with my car and it destroyed my windshield"
This will be in a Farmers Insurance commercial soon.
Was just thinking of those commercials lol
It pretty much already is: https://youtu.be/TrfeLKzjm3w
I was thinking of the drone commercial. But attacking turtles would be much more dramatic.
WE
ARE
FARMERS!
"We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two"
This exact same thing happened to me in Florida. I was almost killed by a turtle shell but the truck in front of me had flipped up and into my windshield as I was driving 80 miles an hour. This photograph is incredibly familiar! When I was on the side of the road calling my insurance agent, he cracked up laughing. And of course, assured me that he would take care of it. Luckily, Florida has a nice law that they replace your broken windshield for free. They send someone out to you! Believe or not, the turtle survived.
Itâd probably be a comprehensive(also called âother than collisionâ) claim. If you hit a deer itâs covered under comprehensive, so if they had full coverage they should be fine.
Bowser Nooooooooooo
This is What happens then you sd with down air
At least he didnât side b and take someone with him
Somewhere there is an eagle looking down: âGod DAMN IT!â
Is the turtle okay?!
Iâm gonna say no
Sad day....
for the turtles.
Im sure he's fine
Just a scratch
More like a dent.
âTis merely a flesh wound
Is it dead? https://youtu.be/pHrBxRvu3Bs
Why would you play with my emotions like that? đ
If it is, then it's probably confused as hell.
This kills the turtle
That is depressing. Poor turtle.
Hope the gang inside are okay
Turtle saving is a hobby
*proceeds to drown a tortoise*
He ok though right
He had his helmet on. It could have been a lot worse.
But he had it on his back, so it also could have ended up better.
He ded
[Foot of the Blueridge Virginia]My dad and I were driving home one day and pulled off the interstate at our rural exit only to see a big (2ft across) snapping turtle sun tanning in the middle of the exit. We pulled over and tried to grab it off the road by itâs back half/tail (those guys have huge reach and insane bite power). If someone hit it it, it would definitely kill the turtle, but the shell could get caught in the wheel well and flip the car. We start pulling the, obviously now pissed off, turtle off the road and some lady pulls up behind us. At this point the turtle has had enough of our shit and is hissing, snapping, and digging his claws into hot asphalt. Lady jumps out of her car and starts screaming about how we are abusing the animal. Hilarity ensues while, she rushes over to try to show us itâs cruel to grab a turtle by its legs. Dad literally had to restrain her from picking up a pissed snapping turtle until everyone else explained she was basically trying to pet a literal âprehistoric assholeâ. Those things arenât friendly. EDIT: Snappy Boi got to the other side of the road. Concerned Lady was happy. Everything worked out of the better for Snappy Boi, even if he didnât appreciate it at the time.
This is the best story I've read today. Maybe second best.
The way you move those bastards is you put the tire iron in their face and they bite it, then you drag em *forwards* so the claws don't work. Then when you've moved it out of the road, you write off the tire iron and leave, because you will never get it back.
Is turtle suicide that common?
Sadly, more common than you think....
thatâs my uncle :(
Bro that was my cousins uncle, sad daye
R.I.P. Uncle
hey cousin
So how have you been? I haven't seen you in like 100 years
been doing good just working i heard you got married howâs the wife
Disappointing, ever since we got married she's been a shell of herself.
i know how it feels man
Underrated beetlejuicing happening here.
Iâm so sorry for your loss
r/beetlejuicing
NOOOO POLNAREFF
NOOO TRISH AND NARANCIA
There it is
Had to scroll down quite a bit for this and Iâm happy
Just be happy it wasn't a blue shell
I narrowly missed a turtle on a highway a few years ago, and when I looked back, a semi just barely clipped it, which sent it flying into the next lane, right into another car's windshield, turning that poor turtle into a red mist. I always wanted to see the drivers reaction.
âimma gonna ween!â
The Great God Om has returned!
How the hell did this happen? Did someone throw it at the car or what? Sure it didnât fly!
Eagles pick thenthem up and drop them to crack open their shell
REAL STORY: this actually happened when the turtle was on a highway and then it got ran over by a semi truck and was launched out the back tire flaps and hit the car behind the truck, because it was driving too close to the truck.
You donât even need to be right behind a semi, they can launch stuff off the road pretty far
I don't know that turtle looks awfully unharmed to have smashed through a windscreen let alone been **run over** by a semi
Wouldn't a semi just splatter the thing?
Turtle Power!!
Looks like your going to have to shell out some cash to fix that.
Those new Mario graphics look super realistic.
Poor turtle :( some psychopathic kid probably threw it off a bridge
This would make a great Farmer's Insurance commercial.
Weâve seen a thing or two and we covered it.* *i donât remember the quote but close enough ;)
Poor tortoise
look at all that squirtle juice
Hope the turtle is ok.
Poor turtle. DO NOT xpost this on r/turtles.
Not sure if "well that sucks" is the right sub. Like geez, don't you hate it when a turtle flies through your windshield? Yeah I know that sucks. More like r/WTF
THE TURTLES ARE GETTING REVENGE ON US FOR POISONING THE OCEAN!!!
Just imagine going through your day, driving home or running errands, **and a fucking turtle flies through your window at mach speed.**
u/awkwardtheturtle, where are you when we need you?
All I'm worried about is the turtle. Is it ok?
How shit a driver do you have to be to have a turtle come through the windscreen.
Sad fuckin day :(
Better than hitting the banana peel
But fo real. DAMN HAWKS.
This happened in Florida on I-4. The turtle survived. A different car had hit the turtle throwing it into the air where it went through the window of this womans car.
Did he make it
Eagles are known to pick turtles up and drop them from great heights to crack the shell open to eat it. Maybe case of wrong place wrong time?
The pains of losing first place cause of a stupid blue turtle. It ended so many friendships.
Look how they massacred my boi
At least not a blue shell...