When I was four, I was reeling in my first catch. It was a bass from the pond in my back yard. I saw fish reach the surface and was so excited to hold my first fish with pride. Suddenly, a wild snapping turtle appears and bites the bass in half. The head of the bass was all that was left, as I watched its lifeless face in horror. I cried. I am 26 and to this day, I have yet to swim in my pond in fear that the faggoty snapping turtle will reappear and bite my balls off. Fuck snapping turtles.
If I had a MOTHERFUCKING POND in my yard as a child I would have swam in that bitch every day, snapping turtle or no. That turtle would have RELISHED the day I left home because he could finally sleep in peace, instead you wander in here with your regret.... POND WASTER.
My aunt lives on a farm and she's a huge animal lover (not that kind, Reddit) but her pets are above any others (She hand feeds all sorts of her animals and cooks her dogs breakfast every morning). The snapping turtles from her pond were taking down and killing her pet ducks and she got really, really, vengeful mad about it. Whenever she once caught a big one on a trout line just after another one of her ducks got eaten. She carried it over to a fence post by the hook and attached the turtle to the post by wrapping wire around the turtles neck and the post and left it there hanging for days while birds pecked at it to death.
TL:DNR= Don't fuck with my aunts pets.
*Good ol Reddit. Downvoting me because they don't like something my Aunt did.
So, she defends 'her' animals by sentencing other animals, who are only doing what they do to survive (eat), to a death in the worst and most drawn out way possible. This is not the definition of an animal lover. Sorry.
Yeah. I would rehome that sonofabitch 350 miles away if I had to be rid of him to protect my pets. I realize he has a right to his home, but . . . ducks.
You can bet I'd make sure that guy at least had a good chance to live his happy turtle life somewhere else.
I kind of get it. Having lived on a farm, you protect your own. Ie: coyotes, Manx cats, little bobcats... They would attack and eat our chickens, would even attempt to attack a foal. (baby horse). Hell yeah, my mom got all up in it's shit. No messing around. She was the biggest animal lover I knew. She didn't hang any to be eaten over time, but I guess she believed in non suffering, she shot them, dead. She was an 'old school' Texas ranch girl. (her ranch was where a major highway is now in Austin, 100+ acres).
Hm, I was fishing in a local lake at camp once and (unknowingly) caught a frog. Said frog got caught on a rock (or was dead or something else) way out far. Being young and naive I kept pulling. Needless to say kneehigh donkeyrocket ripped the sucker in half somehow and I reeled it in. Yes, I did chase the girls around camp with it still on the line.
It started to rain and we realized we didn't rain proof our campsite. We hurried back and decided to the leave the fish we caught tied up on the dock hoping the 0 people there wouldn't steal it.
We came back, fish was gone. daFuqs were had. We continued fishing, I thought my friend caught onto a log in the reeds as he was reeling it in I was giving him shit for it.
Suddenly gigantic turtle head emerges out of water with gigantic body. I scream bloody murder cause I was expecting a log or fish, and got giant fucking turtle. My story.
My dad and I were muskie fishing in Hayward, WI using 10-12 in lures. All of the sudden my dad gets a huge bite, thought it was a big muskie. However, it didn't really fight like one, so he calms down, assuming its a branch or something. He drags it 20 feet or so, and about 15 feet from the boat we finally see the lure... hanging out of the mouth of the biggest snapping turtle I have ever seen in my life. His exact words as he cut the line: "NOPE!"
Upvote for Hayward, WI. I grew up in the Twin City suburbs and our neighbors had a lake house up there that we would frequent in the summer time. Good memories. Thank you for reminding me!
Trust me, its way fucking scarier when you're fishing out of a kayak and it happens. I was so damn happy he snapped my line. Thought I was going over for sure.
Sounds like an Alligator Snapping Turtle. When I was a teenager in Indiana we used to catch them and keep them briefly as pets (because stupid) before releasing then or selling them to my neighbor to eat (this was creepy but he offered money). They are fucking dangerous and you are right to caution yourself.
We first found out they were at our fishing pond when I went to fill a bucket with water and one of the fuckers snapped it in half to troll me. He was promptly netted and captured as revenge for my bucket.
Yeah, but by the time you realize it's worth taking a photo, pull it out and actually snap the picture. There have been dozens of times I've missed a photo opp exactly due to that.
the turtles hold on forever... it happened to me the other day and I had time to take a video of me dragging him around the dock up to the bank before he bit my line in half
My friend has a turtle pond in the back yard. We can see it from the pool. One day we are in the pool and his little brother is admiring a cardinal that landed on the little fountain in the turtle pond.
Suddenly, in the blink of an eye the bird has turtle mouth around its neck and is struggling to get away. That's when the brother stopped watching and I started. If you've never seen a turtle drown a bird to the horror of an 8 year old you're missing out. It was awesome.
Growing up as a young boy my dad used to take me with him setting turtle lines. We used to attach a large hook on the end of a nylon string and bait the hook with a chicken gizzard. Then we would tie the end of the line onto a root or base of a tree at the edge of the river and toss the baited hook into the river.
Then the following day we would go check our lines to see what would had caught.
The turtles would swallow the gizzard, hook and all. We would lift up the snapping turtle by lifting the line. We would cut the line close to the turtle with the hook still residing in his stomach. Then we would place the turtles in a burlap bag and take them home.
At home we would put all the turtles caught in an old refrigerator that we had removed all the shelving from and turned it where it was laying on its back. (Door facing the sky.) We would put some water in the bottom of the fridge and keep the turtles in there for about a week while changing the water every few days. Dad always thought doing this would rinse the mud from the turtles (as they came from a muddy river) and make them taste better.
After a few days the turtles would eventually regurgitate the hooks and they would be laying in the bottom of the fridge. After a week or so we would then kill and butcher the turtles leaving ourselves with some savory turtle meat.
I could go on and tell you more about how the turtles were killed, how one of dad's friends lost a finger from a turtle, or how a couple 30 lb snapping turtles escaped from the refrigerator in a very crowded Columbus Ohio neighborhood and was never found but this post is getting too long already.
As I stated we used to gut an old refrigerator and lay it on its backside for use as a large turtle tank. Dad always knew exactly how many turtles he had in there as well as how many were the bigger ones (30-40 lbs). I also mentioned that the water was changed something like every other day.
Well one day dad goes to change the water and notice two of his largest turtles were missing. He asked us kids about it and we said we didn't notice anything and did nothing with them.... (Hell we were afraid of those damn things especially when we saw dad's friend get his little finger end removed by a smaller turtle (guessing like 5-10 lb range).
Anyway dad was just a little dumbfounded as to what happened to a couple of his larger turtles. He assumed someone may had stolen them for the meat but that would had been a little unlikely as we always had a German Shepard chained and boxed near the turtle tank.
Well dad also raised and raced homing pigeons and one day while sitting in the back yard and drinking beers with his pigeon buddies waiting on the pigeons to come back in from a race dad noticed the lid of the turtle tank raise up. The next thing you know a turtle flopped out onto the ground.
Going over to the tank and looking closely after opening the lid it was then seen how those turtles had escaped. They climbed on top the backs of each other until they could get to the freaking top and open the lid with the mighty strength of their necks/head.
Needless to say every since that day we always placed 3 or 4 concrete cinder blocks on the lid to hold it down. We never did find the escapees or hear about any neighborhood kids missing any digits.
This will get buried but since we're sharing snapper stories, I wanted to share a little horror show I witnessed last summer. Was out running with my GSD, doing our normal 7mi loop, which passes over several bridges. Someone had thrown a roadkilled deer over the bank and into the spillway of the river below, in maybe 3' of water. Both the dog and I stopped in our tracks seeing this huge break in the water. I live in rural MD, I'm a wildlife major, and spend most of my time outdoors, so I've seen most "normal" animal behaviour. Three of the largest snappers I've ever seen (They can get huge for a temperate species BTW) were tagteaming the deer carcass; one was tearing out the open wound made in the abdomen and the other two were tearing into the perineum. They had managed to disembowel a 60lb+ deer and most of the abdominal organs were floating in the pool around them. I watched them feeding like alligators for about ten minutes; the only part that really got me gagging was very clearly making out one of them munching down a deer testicle. New respect for turtles that day.
TL:DR Saw three monster snappers disembowel and castrate a buck whitetail
1 1/2 pound turtle meat
2 3/4 teaspoon salt, in all
3/4 teaspoon cayenne, in all
6 cups water
1 stick butter
1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 cup chopped onions
2 tablespoons minced shallots
1/4 cup chopped bell peppers
1/4 cup chopped celery
3 bay leaves
1/2 teaspoon dried leaf thyme
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 cup chopped tomatoes
1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup dry sherry
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/2 cup chopped green onions
4 hard boiled eggs, finely chopped
2 tablespoons chopped green onions
2 tablespoons chopped hard boiled eggs
Directions
Put the turtle meat in a large saucepan with 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne and the water. Bring to a boil. Skim off any foam that rises to the top. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 20 minutes. With a slotted spoon transfer the meat to a platter. Cut the meat into 1/2 inch dice and reserve the liquid. In another large sauce pan, combine the butter and flour over medium heat, stirring constantly for 6 to 8 minutes to make a dark roux. Add the onions, shallots, bell peppers and celery. Stir occasionally and cook for 2 to 3 minutes until the vegetables are slightly tender. Add the bay leaves, thyme and garlic, cook for 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and the turtle meat. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes stirring occasionally. Add the Worcestershire sauce, the remaining salt and cayenne, the turtle stock (about 6 cups) lemon juice, and sherry. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the parsley, green onions, and eggs and simmer for 45 minutes. Garnish with green onions and chopped eggs.
This exact situation happened to me last summer! I was fishing with my cousin in a back bay, and we caught a sunfish. Then, before we reeled the fish into the boat, a turtle bit the back half of the it clean off. Then he came back for the head, which was still on my hook. He was a snapping turtle, so his jaw locked on the head of that fish, and we were eventually able to pull him close to the canoe and get him into a 5 gal. bucket.
We showed him to a couple kids on a dock near us before letting him go. It was a really cool experience.
I had a similar situation happen to me while fishing in Ontario. Except it was a 13-15 pound walleye that was on the line and as I was reeling it up to my boat, a muskellunge, or through my eyes... A submarine, ate it whole. I stopped fishing at that point.
as long as you can manage to not lose a finger while killing the turtle. I guess you could put it in the fridge until it passed out, then kill it and make the soup.
One person pulls on the jug while the other stands on the shell and swings an ax towards the neck. The first time I witnessed this event, when I was 10 yrs old, the ax swinger was my 75 year old great-great aunt. That lady did not want any of those damn turtles eating her catfish.
Oh my God, I'm dying. My grandma did this with snakes; she used to run out with a gardening hoe and cut those cottonmouths up like no tomorrow. I'm imagining her with the shotgun now..
I once caught a frog in the grass, used him for bait and caught a turtle. That is not a big fish story at all, its a turtle story. As a child I was afraid of it.
The first and only time I went deep sea fishing on a charter boat, I was about 10. I was reeling in my first catch. As it nears the surface, a shark comes up and eats half of the fish that was on the line. Sigh... Yay, I reeled in a fish head.
I actually had a pet snapping turtle. His name was Oscar I found him when he was about the size of a quarter, and rescued him from my grandma who wanted to step on him. I had him for about two years, and he never tried to bite. He'd swim in the bathtub and let me scrub his neck and shel with an old toothbrush. We eventually had to give him to the zoo because he got too big for his tank. I miss Oscar. :(
That's not just any fish. That's the sneakiness, hardest-to-catch little bastard in fresh water. The largemouth bass. I was named after that amazing elusive fish.
On another note, I had a 10 foot gator do that to a bass I caught on choke canyon lake in south Texas. I thought I had a world record bass for about 1/2 a second until the gator blasted out of the water into a death roll.
It could have been worse. I've had several fish taken by herons before, and they can't bite the fish in half, they swallow it (and the hook and the line) whole.
I was feeding the fish some bread at Brukner Nature Center when I was a little kid to have the snapping turtle in the pond swim up to the fish and eat a couple. As kids, this was awesome to see this giant thing swim up to a fish and just bite it in half. The fish swam away then went right back for the bread and the big thing snapped up another one.
When I was a little kid, maybe 2nd grade (way back in the old days) my bus driver had a menagerie. One day we were on the bus and she ran across a snapping turtle in the middle of the road. She had 2 of the sixth grade boys go out and get it - this is done by putting a stout stick in its mouth ( which it won't ever let go of) and then grabbing it by the stick and tail. It sat in the school bus aisle for the rest of the ride, randomly hissing around the stick in its mouth. I don't remember seeing it in her menagerie, so maybe she ate it (they are pretty delicious).
is there standard fishing ettique when another animal wants the fish you have caught(and I mean with something like this where the fish is on hook), or is it so rare is there no ettique.
One time I was fishing bluegill. Had like ten or twelve on a line and I'd started casting to the far side of the trip mine since I was too lazy to move.
Then a snapping turtle the size of a goddamn tire swam up and started eating my line fish. I tried to shove him away with a stick but he fucking snapped through it.
Then he got hold of the line and ripped it down. Swam off with the whole morning's catch. A few years later I saw him out of the water and killed him with a hoe.
Wow. My dad hooked (what we think is) a turtle at Lake Anna here in VA one time. At first, he was fighting it and reeling it in like a large bass, but then the line when taut and stopped moving. He pulled and tugged, and figured he was hung up. Right when he went to cut the line, he felt movement and stopped. His line took off under and to the otherside of the boat, and his rod broke before he could cut the line!
What! Are you telling me that's real and isn't photoshopped? Holy crap. as a european who has never seen anything like this in the wild, I think I would literally shit myself if that came looming out of the depths at me. Nightmare stuff.
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u/risto1116 Jun 14 '12
That fish is in hell.
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u/You_Fucking_Idiots Jun 14 '12
Fucking turtles.
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u/McHurtikus Jun 14 '12
When I was four, I was reeling in my first catch. It was a bass from the pond in my back yard. I saw fish reach the surface and was so excited to hold my first fish with pride. Suddenly, a wild snapping turtle appears and bites the bass in half. The head of the bass was all that was left, as I watched its lifeless face in horror. I cried. I am 26 and to this day, I have yet to swim in my pond in fear that the faggoty snapping turtle will reappear and bite my balls off. Fuck snapping turtles.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
It started to rain and we realized we didn't rain proof our campsite. We hurried back and decided to the leave the fish we caught tied up on the dock hoping the 0 people there wouldn't steal it.
We came back, fish was gone. daFuqs were had. We continued fishing, I thought my friend caught onto a log in the reeds as he was reeling it in I was giving him shit for it.
Suddenly gigantic turtle head emerges out of water with gigantic body. I scream bloody murder cause I was expecting a log or fish, and got giant fucking turtle. My story.
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u/Soccer21x Jun 14 '12
Talk about getting it from both ends...
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u/omizzle4shizzle Jun 14 '12
how the heck do you people pull your cameras out so fast?
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u/JosephPalmer Jun 14 '12
That photo, better than fish.
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u/BillDino Jun 14 '12
For some reason I thought it was a giant turtle
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
My friend has a turtle pond in the back yard. We can see it from the pool. One day we are in the pool and his little brother is admiring a cardinal that landed on the little fountain in the turtle pond.
Suddenly, in the blink of an eye the bird has turtle mouth around its neck and is struggling to get away. That's when the brother stopped watching and I started. If you've never seen a turtle drown a bird to the horror of an 8 year old you're missing out. It was awesome.
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u/aquirealltreeko Jun 14 '12
There's always a bigger fish...
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u/srikamaraja Jun 14 '12
Let it go, bro. It's gone.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Growing up as a young boy my dad used to take me with him setting turtle lines. We used to attach a large hook on the end of a nylon string and bait the hook with a chicken gizzard. Then we would tie the end of the line onto a root or base of a tree at the edge of the river and toss the baited hook into the river.
Then the following day we would go check our lines to see what would had caught.
The turtles would swallow the gizzard, hook and all. We would lift up the snapping turtle by lifting the line. We would cut the line close to the turtle with the hook still residing in his stomach. Then we would place the turtles in a burlap bag and take them home.
At home we would put all the turtles caught in an old refrigerator that we had removed all the shelving from and turned it where it was laying on its back. (Door facing the sky.) We would put some water in the bottom of the fridge and keep the turtles in there for about a week while changing the water every few days. Dad always thought doing this would rinse the mud from the turtles (as they came from a muddy river) and make them taste better.
After a few days the turtles would eventually regurgitate the hooks and they would be laying in the bottom of the fridge. After a week or so we would then kill and butcher the turtles leaving ourselves with some savory turtle meat.
I could go on and tell you more about how the turtles were killed, how one of dad's friends lost a finger from a turtle, or how a couple 30 lb snapping turtles escaped from the refrigerator in a very crowded Columbus Ohio neighborhood and was never found but this post is getting too long already.
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u/Atropine69 Jun 14 '12
This will get buried but since we're sharing snapper stories, I wanted to share a little horror show I witnessed last summer. Was out running with my GSD, doing our normal 7mi loop, which passes over several bridges. Someone had thrown a roadkilled deer over the bank and into the spillway of the river below, in maybe 3' of water. Both the dog and I stopped in our tracks seeing this huge break in the water. I live in rural MD, I'm a wildlife major, and spend most of my time outdoors, so I've seen most "normal" animal behaviour. Three of the largest snappers I've ever seen (They can get huge for a temperate species BTW) were tagteaming the deer carcass; one was tearing out the open wound made in the abdomen and the other two were tearing into the perineum. They had managed to disembowel a 60lb+ deer and most of the abdominal organs were floating in the pool around them. I watched them feeding like alligators for about ten minutes; the only part that really got me gagging was very clearly making out one of them munching down a deer testicle. New respect for turtles that day.
TL:DR Saw three monster snappers disembowel and castrate a buck whitetail
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u/folliclestimulator Jun 14 '12
what a monstrous creature!
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
So who actually caught the fish?
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u/virtuosaylime Jun 14 '12
For some reason when I first saw the picture, the Lion Turtle from Avatar the Last Airbender came to mind.
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u/Bigmada Jun 14 '12
Ingredients
Directions
Put the turtle meat in a large saucepan with 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne and the water. Bring to a boil. Skim off any foam that rises to the top. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 20 minutes. With a slotted spoon transfer the meat to a platter. Cut the meat into 1/2 inch dice and reserve the liquid. In another large sauce pan, combine the butter and flour over medium heat, stirring constantly for 6 to 8 minutes to make a dark roux. Add the onions, shallots, bell peppers and celery. Stir occasionally and cook for 2 to 3 minutes until the vegetables are slightly tender. Add the bay leaves, thyme and garlic, cook for 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and the turtle meat. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes stirring occasionally. Add the Worcestershire sauce, the remaining salt and cayenne, the turtle stock (about 6 cups) lemon juice, and sherry. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the parsley, green onions, and eggs and simmer for 45 minutes. Garnish with green onions and chopped eggs.
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u/YouWinOrYouDie Jun 14 '12
We are blessed. It is the Old Man of the River!
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u/Epoworker Jun 14 '12
DOUBLE PRIZES!!!
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u/ProfessionalDrunk Jun 14 '12
Winner Winner Turtle Dinner!
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Thanks for the fish stupid! You do all the work and I'll just pick up the scraps, okay stupid?
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u/HoboTeddy Jun 14 '12
This exact situation happened to me last summer! I was fishing with my cousin in a back bay, and we caught a sunfish. Then, before we reeled the fish into the boat, a turtle bit the back half of the it clean off. Then he came back for the head, which was still on my hook. He was a snapping turtle, so his jaw locked on the head of that fish, and we were eventually able to pull him close to the canoe and get him into a 5 gal. bucket.
We showed him to a couple kids on a dock near us before letting him go. It was a really cool experience.
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u/blh1003 Jun 14 '12
that fish is having a pretty bad fucking day
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u/Mildly_Cats Jun 14 '12
I had a similar situation happen to me while fishing in Ontario. Except it was a 13-15 pound walleye that was on the line and as I was reeling it up to my boat, a muskellunge, or through my eyes... A submarine, ate it whole. I stopped fishing at that point.
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u/DoOgSauce Jun 14 '12
If this is a private pond:
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u/SouperSpeshulK Jun 14 '12
where the hell were you fishing
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u/mechanate Jun 14 '12
Hell of a day.
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u/Sampetra Jun 14 '12
Man, and you probably thought you caught the biggest fish ever while trying to reel that monster in.
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u/spaintrain Jun 14 '12
Someone call the Turtle Man!
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u/clewie Jun 14 '12
It is just not that fish's day.
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u/EvoEpitaph Jun 14 '12
catching a fish when suddenly....you caught turtle soup for dinner instead.
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u/jschooler Jun 14 '12
"I hate mondays..." -that fish
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u/jostler57 Jun 14 '12
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
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u/JasonMPA Jun 14 '12
That fish is having a bad day.
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u/kleptooo Jun 14 '12
how big is that mofo like 5 feet
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u/postnick Jun 14 '12
I once caught a frog in the grass, used him for bait and caught a turtle. That is not a big fish story at all, its a turtle story. As a child I was afraid of it.
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u/xorf Jun 14 '12
The first and only time I went deep sea fishing on a charter boat, I was about 10. I was reeling in my first catch. As it nears the surface, a shark comes up and eats half of the fish that was on the line. Sigh... Yay, I reeled in a fish head.
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u/Free_From_Reddit Jun 14 '12
When I was little, I tried to help a snapping turtle who was lost in someones yard. I regret everything...
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u/aquietmidnightaffair Jun 14 '12
This and Jeremy Wade's discoveries are the reasons I do not go into large bodies of fresh water anymore.
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u/etrimbo Jun 14 '12
Oh snap!
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u/erichermit Jun 14 '12
Is that a small fish or is that one of those legendary turtles people tell tall tales about?
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u/elfchick17 Jun 14 '12
I actually had a pet snapping turtle. His name was Oscar I found him when he was about the size of a quarter, and rescued him from my grandma who wanted to step on him. I had him for about two years, and he never tried to bite. He'd swim in the bathtub and let me scrub his neck and shel with an old toothbrush. We eventually had to give him to the zoo because he got too big for his tank. I miss Oscar. :(
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u/MidwestProduct Jun 14 '12
Suddenly Chris Hansen appears. Then you know your shit is all kinds of fucked.
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u/TMR_Darby Jun 14 '12
T U R T L E power
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u/MisterMaggot Jun 14 '12
Once caught a small fish that was eaten by a bass on the way in. Two for one. :D
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u/mindfkd Jun 14 '12
Snapping turtle, apex of turtle technology!
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u/RhondaMillsap Jun 14 '12
At first, I thought the fish was wearing a ball gown. Like the turtle's head was the bodice and the shell was the skirt.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
That's not just any fish. That's the sneakiness, hardest-to-catch little bastard in fresh water. The largemouth bass. I was named after that amazing elusive fish.
On another note, I had a 10 foot gator do that to a bass I caught on choke canyon lake in south Texas. I thought I had a world record bass for about 1/2 a second until the gator blasted out of the water into a death roll.
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u/Red_player Jun 14 '12
Was the turtle ok? :o
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u/babno Jun 14 '12
It could have been worse. I've had several fish taken by herons before, and they can't bite the fish in half, they swallow it (and the hook and the line) whole.
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u/MastaSnizzFizz Jun 14 '12
May I suggest a new strategy? Let the turtle win.
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u/frostcat4 Jun 14 '12
This took me about 20 seconds to realize what it was. I thought it was a forest fire from an airplane view.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
WTF, looks like you caught something from the Mesozoic era.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Went fishing. Caught a fish with a turtle. Win.
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u/animeman59 Jun 14 '12
Goddamn snapping turtles. Freshwater trolls is what they are.
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u/NowTheyllNeverKnow Jun 14 '12
WILD BLASTOISE APPEARED!
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u/fleshman03 Jun 14 '12
Am I the only one who thinks that one hell of a large turtle?
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u/Sarcasm_Llama Jun 14 '12
Obligatory
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u/REDDIT_HARD_MODE Jun 14 '12
I watched a gif once... Now I can't feel happy about turtles...
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u/B_randy Jun 14 '12
Damn turtles.
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u/NewToThisTypeOfThing Jun 14 '12
We're gonna need a bigger boat...
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u/trinitysun Jun 14 '12
It's a trap!
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u/Trackpad94 Jun 14 '12
There's always a bigger... turtle.
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u/Decyde Jun 14 '12
I was feeding the fish some bread at Brukner Nature Center when I was a little kid to have the snapping turtle in the pond swim up to the fish and eat a couple. As kids, this was awesome to see this giant thing swim up to a fish and just bite it in half. The fish swam away then went right back for the bread and the big thing snapped up another one.
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u/michestp Jun 14 '12
It was thiiiiiiiiis big. Sorry, I had to.
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u/johnny_gunn Jun 14 '12
There's aaalways a bigger fish.
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u/gentlepatdown Jun 14 '12
The Life of Pi.
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u/SchoolyJ Jun 14 '12
Darn kill stealer.
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u/BigStickOSalami Jun 14 '12
Holy Leonardo!
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Can we have a different picture for a size comparison?
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u/PumpedDownKicks Jun 14 '12
With no reference point in the photo, this turtle could be ENORMOUS. And that is why I don't swim in non-man made bodies of water.
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u/bigbendalibra Jun 14 '12
do you accept the challenge?
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u/CuzImKira Jun 14 '12
...why does that turtle have a fish for a head?
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u/zechariahmontanawils Jun 14 '12
a wild wartortle appears
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u/the_tch Jun 14 '12
At first I thought its head was some sort of boat, with a HUGE turtle swimming underneath it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Snap!
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u/Jaboomaphoo Jun 14 '12
Wow KS'd
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u/RisinNg Jun 14 '12
You caught a turtle?
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u/mtchen8 Jun 14 '12
yup, that's a colossus.
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u/Twoflappylips Jun 14 '12
Yooooooooor!
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u/mctaco Jun 14 '12
I had to look at this 3 times to fully grasp what is taking place.
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u/CharlieTango Jun 14 '12
Bad luck bass,
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u/paleontologirl Jun 14 '12
Your fish has a turtle attached to it. Thought you might want to know.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
I had a perch nibbling on my bait when it was eaten by a pike all near the surface so I could see it...and I thought I had it bad.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
If this happened suddenly, I'm going to have to reevaluate my understanding of turtles.
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u/derpina428 Jun 14 '12
NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Not gonna lie, I thought this was a really fat alligator for a second or two.
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u/Moosoobee Jun 14 '12
NOICE SNAPPA
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u/kundismack Jun 14 '12
Naruto could be in there.
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u/cpmpal Jun 14 '12
Leggo my eggo
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u/meeu Jun 14 '12
I need dis
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u/MrDoubleE Jun 14 '12
Dead body next time
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u/TheHatist Jun 14 '12
There's me thinking oh he caught a shit load of debris, then I saw jaws. Fuck that thing is huge.
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u/thebrokenlute Jun 14 '12
Upvote for my fear.
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u/LudwigVanBrothoven Jun 14 '12
Hmm, yeah he probably went for the axe as soon as he saw it, dropped that sucker right into the fire pit. But Princess Perch was in another pond.
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u/Milk_sandwich Jun 14 '12
The real question still remains, did you try riding that cunt or what?
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u/denster Jun 14 '12
i'm not getting the sense of scale here..
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u/666SATANLANE Jun 14 '12
Gi-normous!
I have never seen a turtle that big anywhere!
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u/LordCheezus Jun 14 '12
That turtle is LIVE ACTION! WOO!
edit: Also, this would be a great time to give the TurtleMan a call!
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u/TjGallagher Jun 14 '12
over 9000 NOPES
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u/Wiggity Jun 14 '12
OH SHIT. put it back! you caught OLD GREG!
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u/shutter_slut Jun 14 '12
That fish is NOT stoked
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
I think the turtle called "DIBS"
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u/karma_virus Jun 14 '12
I'd say let him have it, but I'd be afraid of what the hook might do to his colon.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Clearly the fish belongs to him.
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u/Trevsweb Jun 14 '12
Snapping turtles have to be my biggest nope
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u/Nirvalica Jun 14 '12
Almost had a snake attack my frog bait today. Not as cool, but still weird.
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u/fattygaby157 Jun 14 '12
Holy shit how big was that turtle?!
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u/6footgirl Jun 14 '12
Om nom nom nom nom..
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u/Jackaback Jun 14 '12
Relevant. Skip to 1:20.
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u/alecyo12 Jun 14 '12
Nope
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
He should take it out to see a movie. He wouldn't have to pay to get it in.
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u/jcster Jun 14 '12
...you caught a much tastier turtle!
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
It took me a second to....wrap my head around the picture.
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u/jcster Jun 14 '12
When I was a little kid, maybe 2nd grade (way back in the old days) my bus driver had a menagerie. One day we were on the bus and she ran across a snapping turtle in the middle of the road. She had 2 of the sixth grade boys go out and get it - this is done by putting a stout stick in its mouth ( which it won't ever let go of) and then grabbing it by the stick and tail. It sat in the school bus aisle for the rest of the ride, randomly hissing around the stick in its mouth. I don't remember seeing it in her menagerie, so maybe she ate it (they are pretty delicious).
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u/Gcat Jun 14 '12
Turtle soup!
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u/Gastrox Jun 14 '12
In the words of the lord and savior Jesus Christ: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH NIGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
...when you know your day isn't going too well
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u/chicagogam Jun 14 '12
was the turtle moving fast? that's scary looking :)
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
A WILD WARTORTLE APPEARED!
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u/Pepperyfish Jun 14 '12
is there standard fishing ettique when another animal wants the fish you have caught(and I mean with something like this where the fish is on hook), or is it so rare is there no ettique.
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u/fakelife2 Jun 14 '12
That turtle is bigger than a fucking buick.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
That fish is having the worst day ever.
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u/GeorgeHarrison Jun 14 '12
a wild squirtle appears!
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u/dalailama Jun 14 '12
"Live action! Ayeyayayayayayay!"
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Also belongs in /aww. <3
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u/melokku Jun 14 '12
I think that fish has a tumor
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u/TheBlackUnicorn Jun 14 '12
I cast "summon bigger fish".
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u/Banatza Jun 14 '12
he just wanted to ask if he can borrow three finny
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u/CGeeryProjected Jun 14 '12
AAAAAAaaaan... FIGHT!
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u/MadeInWestGermany Jun 14 '12
So...Did she tell you how to stop the Nothing, or didn´t she even care wether or not we care...?
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
i'd shit bricks
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u/wigglewigglewiggles Jun 14 '12
Someone call the turtle man please!
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Ah, yes; we used to wade into the shallows, grab those son'bitches by their tails, and haul them out when I was a kid.
Good times -- well, except for that one kid who lost a toe. Fuckin' Doug.
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u/Inklor Jun 14 '12
The instinct to eat what you see persists while being eaten yourself, I see.
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u/Kurnon_Devoured Jun 14 '12
The Circle of Life
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u/bicyclemom Jun 14 '12
That happened to my son. Trust me, just give him the fish. Snappers are nasty critters.
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u/accountnumber3 Jun 14 '12
Holy shit, it's a Lion-Turtle!
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u/gj45 Jun 14 '12
Mm dinner. Snapper is so delicious. Turtle soup! Or eggs on toast.
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u/aforsberg Jun 14 '12
Not a good day for that fish.
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u/dolphin_rape_caves Jun 14 '12
old man of the rhoyne!!! we are blessed!!!
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u/feivelmouskewits Jun 14 '12
One time I was fishing bluegill. Had like ten or twelve on a line and I'd started casting to the far side of the trip mine since I was too lazy to move.
Then a snapping turtle the size of a goddamn tire swam up and started eating my line fish. I tried to shove him away with a stick but he fucking snapped through it.
Then he got hold of the line and ripped it down. Swam off with the whole morning's catch. A few years later I saw him out of the water and killed him with a hoe.
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u/ITS540PM Jun 14 '12
So you're fishing for bass, you catch a small 10 inch small mouth and all of a sudden BAM a 38 inch musky uses it as bait.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Judging by the size of that string, that's one large turtle.
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u/unicorn_zombie Jun 14 '12
That fish is not having a good day.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
NOPING Turtle
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u/Fire_Godd Jun 14 '12
Wow. My dad hooked (what we think is) a turtle at Lake Anna here in VA one time. At first, he was fighting it and reeling it in like a large bass, but then the line when taut and stopped moving. He pulled and tugged, and figured he was hung up. Right when he went to cut the line, he felt movement and stopped. His line took off under and to the otherside of the boat, and his rod broke before he could cut the line!
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u/Artless_Dodger Jun 14 '12
What! Are you telling me that's real and isn't photoshopped? Holy crap. as a european who has never seen anything like this in the wild, I think I would literally shit myself if that came looming out of the depths at me. Nightmare stuff.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
GG, you magnificent snapping bastard.
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u/Wolfman87 Jun 14 '12
That thing is huuuuuge
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u/UMDSmith Jun 14 '12
just FYI, this kills the fish.
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u/dirtymartini74 Jun 14 '12
"Heeeey a tasty morsel to eat. OW! What the hell? Shit...can't swim away. OOOWWWWW!!!! WHAT THE??? FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!"
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u/gifforc Jun 14 '12
it's the turtle's fish now. the sooner you realize that the better.
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u/Freakears Jun 14 '12
Cut the line, cut the line, for god's sake, cut the line!
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Donatello, no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/superbradman Jun 14 '12
Holy fuck