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Snapping Turtle Bit Boy's Penis

News Edition: 07/07/2005

GERMANY-- Police divers are hunting a snapping turtle that bit a 15-year-old boy on the penis in an alpine lake.
They believe the turtle had probably been dumped in the lake at Grossweil in Bavaria by its owner after it got too big for its tank.

They say the animals, that are natives to North America and are illegal to own in Germany, usually avoid human contact unless cornered.

They are puzzled as to why the turtle should have attacked the teenage swimmer.

The boy was bitten through the swimming trunks on his private parts and then bitten again on the hand as he tried to scramble out of the water.

He realised what it was that was attacking him when the turtle latched onto his finger, leaving a deep wound that needed several stitches.

Snapping turtles can reach a weight of six stone and live for 80 years, but police believe that if they failed to catch the latest turtle escapee it will not survive through the winter when the lake freezes over.

Despite the hot weather locals have been avoiding the lake since the incident, but so far there has been no further sign of the turtle and the hunt by police divers has been unsuccessful.

Dave you said it OUCH!!!!

Makes sure to look into the pool and water sources for turtles now instead of snakes and bugs

OUCH!!!

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

A snapper won't die when the lake freezes. I grew up in Wisconsin, people drive out on the lakes to icefish and there are snappers in those lakes.

Never heard of one attacking someone who wasn't messing with it though. Makes you wonder what that boy was trying to do. Teenage boys can think up some strange ways to amuse themselves.

Mike

If he needed stitches in his finger i'd hate to hear how bad the poor guys * must be heh!

Last edited by Callatya at 08-Jul-2005 02:33

Best story evar. The thing probably assumed the kid's * was a minnow.

Last edited by Callatya at 08-Jul-2005 02:34

C'mon, not too descriptive gents.



For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Ouch

wow, that must have been a wake up call

and no, it wont die when the lake freezes over

we got them all over here, they just hybrinate