Turtle weighing nearly 500 pounds rescued on Massachusetts beach

[TexasTowelie]

Volunteers have rescued a massive leatherback turtle off a Massachusetts beach.

The Cape Cod Times reported the turtle was spotted on First Encounter Beach in Eastham at around 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Director Robert Prescott says the juvenile turtle weighed between 400 and 500 pounds. It took six volunteers to take it off the beach.

Prescott said leatherbacks are the largest of all sea turtles, and can weigh up to 2,000 pounds.

Read more: https://www.eagletribune.com/news/turtle-weighing-nearly-pounds-rescued-on-massachusetts-beach/article_9fd0080e-e757-11e8-822b-e3ecb515d873.html

Okay, I gave the setup. I'm waiting for the punchline...

[lastlib]

1. Mitch!! Are you OK?? Man, I was WORRIED about ya!

but (more) seriously, if it had been Mitch McTurdle, they shouldn't have gone to all that trouble.......

[magicarpet]

2. Can we gather six volunteers to go down to Washington DC and drown the McTurtle...

....in the Potomac.. so his beached white ass is out of the US Senate ? Turtle soup and lobster for everyone with champagne.

[lastlib]

3. I wouldn't eat that soup...! (But I'd volunteer for the expedition.)

Imagine trying to chew that sh*t?