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thenewgreen  ·  4122 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I found a snapping turtle

Next time find a stick dammit!

One of my odest memories is of this guy named Phillip that was a teenager when I was just 5 or 6 years old. I was walking passed his house on my way home from school and he had caught a giant snapping turtle in a big turtle trap. It was an aluminum box the size of a large microwave. He and his friends had released the turtle in their yard and had surrounded it in a circle. They put a large stick in it's mouth and it had a strong grip of it. They pulled on the stick, elongating the neck and chopped it's head off right in front of me. I remember the eyes still moving in it's head and the body of the turtle still walked around for a bit with it's head chopped off.

It was horrible.

They made soup.