Friday afternoon they were expected at our house to stay the night on their way to their vacation in way, way up north Michigan. For what I thought would be a quick moment I took a UPS package down to our daughter's house. In drives our son and his family right behind me. He jumps out of the car looking for help. Out of the car tumbles DIL and all three kids and the dog. Out of the house comes daughter and the two girls. The circus had arrived.
Son says, "There's a turtle impaled on the hood of our car! We need leather gloves!" Excuse me, there's a what? The kids are all excited to see each other and tell the story and show us the evidence.
Indeed. There was a turtle impaled onto the front of the car.
Now, the first thing I thought of was how did it get there? Turtles don't fly. How did it get airborne to fly through the air and land this high up? No one knew for sure how the projection happened but they knew the car in front of them on the highway hit it and it sailed over the top of that car and landed here. There was some splattering involved. We still can't figure it out. Usually if you hit a turtle you squash it right there on the highway.
The kids watched for a bit as daughter-in-law put on her cape and saved the day, put leather gloves on and detached the very stuck and very much still alive turtle. See the orange eggs? It was a momma turtle. The kids then proceeded pell mell in to the house to play for a bit. I don't know how many impaled turtles they've seen stuck to the front of cars but this didn't seem to impress them. Maybe because they'd been riding the last hour with it, maybe they were just glad to see their cousins. My daughter warned the girls to not look at it if they didn't think they could handle it but I told her, "We just finished watching Jaws. They'll be fine."
So. What happened in the end? Well, daughter-in-law detached the turtle and she and daughter put it in a box and took it up the road to an animal rescue place for assessing, son took the car in to get fixed, kids stayed to play for a little, I put the dog into my car and took it home with me.
Son got car the repaired but had to text DIL to send this picture because the guys at the repair place didn't believe him. Kids walked down to our house, DIL was handed a strawberry daquiri upon arrival here and daughter took her kids back home. Not so lucky for the turtle, though.
I am from the It-Could-Be-Worse school of thought. When all is said and done, whatever happens it could have been worse. In this case? As they were travelling 70 miles an hour on the expressway that flying turtle could have hit their windshield. If it did, this would have been a whole different story and we wouldn't be laughing.
There's a story that will be repeated and repeated-a never to be forgotten event! Glad the family was not hurt!
ReplyDeleteSo did the turtle survive ??
ReplyDeleteLife is stranger than fiction for sure. Glad none of your family was hurt. Poor turtle~
ReplyDeleteThat is incredible. No one would expect that. Yes they were very lucky.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a story, you better keep that photo for all those who won't believe it! Glad the outcome was not worse.
ReplyDeleteaww poor turtle, but so glad your family is ok, as you said it could of been much worse.
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