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Title: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Warren on January 05, 2009, 03:27:49 PM
i want one of these some day.  :grin_nod:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3VlyFmemyI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGBSLDZWm0Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3freeYPNSa4

Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Peelz on January 05, 2009, 03:30:03 PM
THose things freak me out! Hit one on the road once. I know a guy that lost a finger when he got bit.
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Warren on January 05, 2009, 03:35:15 PM
are they pretty abundant in your area or what? lol i think they are badass. just have to stay away from the front part. lol
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Krandall on January 05, 2009, 03:36:30 PM
One of my friends lives in the same apt building as me has a little one. not sure how old he is, it's about as round as a basball's diameber for size. nose to end of its tail is about the length of a dollar bill.

they are scary, look like dinosaurs
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Warren on January 05, 2009, 03:44:20 PM
his is just a little one then. they can get as old as 180 years i think and be about 3 feet around. when i get one i want to name it bowser. lol
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Peelz on January 05, 2009, 04:00:54 PM
Quote from: warren on January 05, 2009, 03:44:20 PM
his is just a little one then. they can get as old as 180 years i think and be about 3 feet around. when i get one i want to name it bowser. lol

King Koopa. Yeah, see them alot here. People catch them and eat them. :puke:
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Warren on January 05, 2009, 04:03:05 PM
i would catch one and keep it. i cought a baby one when i was younger. it was only about the size of a silver dollar or so. i let it go in a local pond. the damn thing would be huge if it's still alive now.
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Flynbyu on January 05, 2009, 04:37:48 PM
We've got lots of those down here.

You don't want any part of one of those things. They could easily snap a bone in your arm no problem.

(http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/8/88/Alligator_snapping_turtle.jpg)

~Brian
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Krandall on January 05, 2009, 05:47:22 PM
Quote from: Peels660 on January 05, 2009, 04:00:54 PM
Quote from: warren on January 05, 2009, 03:44:20 PM
his is just a little one then. they can get as old as 180 years i think and be about 3 feet around. when i get one i want to name it bowser. lol

King Koopa. Yeah, see them alot here. People catch them and eat them. :puke:

Turtle soup. 8)

never had it, but per my g-pa it's good eatin.
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Gunz on January 05, 2009, 05:53:45 PM
In the first video, the second turtle was think'n "I'll kill you fool".
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: ctateusa on January 05, 2009, 06:03:39 PM
Yhea I have killed a few my self biggest ive ever seen is about 2 1/2 feet across the shell.

They get really mad when you catch them on a hook and pull it up out of the water.

I pulled a smaller one up ones and bout freaked out cause it looked like a huge frickin lobster claw, all i saw was the tail and i yelled for my cousin to bring me the gun so i could kill whatever the heck was on the other end of the line.
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: AJ RAPTOR on January 05, 2009, 07:50:13 PM
i steped on one at work in the crannberry bog lol it didnt like that and scared the hell outta me when the what i thought was a rock moved out from under my foot and it came up so i took a shovle and scooped it up and put it in the bosses office under his desk lol boy was he surprised when he went in his office :lol:
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: Warren on January 06, 2009, 04:55:44 AM
you would have felt bad if it snapped off your bosses toe.  :lol:
Title: Re: anybody ever seen an aligator snapping turtle?
Post by: AJ RAPTOR on January 06, 2009, 05:34:48 AM
he layed me off just before xmas with no bouns or anything so nah i wouldnt feel bad now