On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:38:55 -0400, "Ernest Scribbler"
wrote:

"Nigel Molesworth" wrote
I was told that I'd run over a turtle..

Must have been that one who supports the Earth on its back...

When I was a kid at summer camp I saw a dead snapping turtle that was
about four foot long in the shell. Over two hundered pounds. This in a
small Minnesota lake. I understand some salt water turtles run much
bigger.

Casady