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

(Richard Casady) wrote:
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.


Sure, sea turtles get a little bigger, but a 4' snapping turtle would
be a dangerous beast... probably could drag away livestock!
Considering that they can be aggressive (at least, the ones we have
down here are, but hopefully they don't get that big) they could
bemore dangerous than alligators...

DSK

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:44:17 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

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.

Yes, much bigger.

We once saw a dead sea turtle washed up on a beach on Nantucket that
was about 7 to 8 feet long and at over a foot thick. It probably
weighed over 1,000 pounds.