Turtle in the trash!?

[EightLeggedFrea]

Humans...always something.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Tiny-turtle-causes-taxiing-apf-1122992999.html?x=0

 

[B8709]

Humans belong in the trash. Not helpless animals. :wall:

 

[pouchedrat]

People throw pets away all the time... I've heard from people who have found hamsters, rats, mice, etc. STILL IN THEIR CAGES in dumpsters at apartment complexes and housing developments. It's enough to always make me stop and look every time I go out to the dumpster at our place, just to make sure a tossed out cage is empty (which i find cages from time to time in there.. I leave em, but just want to make sure nothing's INSIDE of it). I even had a ferret dumped off at my own doorstep at an old apartment I lived at, wrapped in his blanket at 6 in the morning.


However, that story is just weird.... why would you bring a turtle on a plane when you can ship it, or anything else like that? Or care so much for the turtle but STILL toss it out?

 

[bugmankeith]

Why even make it known that a turtle wasnt allowed on a plane and the owners threw it in the trash, only to get the turtle back.... I bet it was wild caught too.

 

[Cowin8579]

I read it too. STUPID!

 

[pitbulllady]

One of the best cats I ever had came out of a dumpster at a school where I used to teach. Someone put her in a cardboard box, duct-taped the box shut, and chucked it over the parameter fence into the dumpster. I was having to change classrooms, so I needed boxes to pack up my stuff in, and went outside to see if there were any in the dumpster, and I kept hearing a kitten meowing. I thought it was UNDER the dumpster, at first, since there was about a six-inch space there, but couldn't see anything. The dumpster was mostly empty, but standing on tip-toes I could see some boxes inside, one of which had lots of duct tape on it, and that is where the meowing was coming from. I had to conscript a couple of agile third graders to get the box out, although they were both absolutely terrified of cats. The Principal was furious that I'd gotten the box out, and that I was "threatening" the children with this horrible, evil beast, a little black polydactyle cat whom I thought was a kitten, though she was actually a very small-and very pregnant-adult cat. I nearly lost my job over that and I had to threaten the PRINCIPAL and her District Superintendent boyfriend with calling the local humane societies and putting their names all over the newspaper and the internet. She actually called a local guy to come out to the school and SHOOT the cat! That's how terrified these ignorant people were of cats, even worse than of a snake. One other teacher kept telling me, "you know that thing is the DEVIL, right?" I told her I'd give her my paycheck if she found ONE reference in the Bible to house cats, ANY cats other than wild species like lions or leopards("pards"), and needless to say, I got to keep my check. A year later, the Superintendent got busted taking bribes to keep former employees that had been improperly fired from suing him, AND got caught having the affair with the Principal(he was married to someone else), and when he lost his job, she quit, and eventually got into trouble in another district which cost her Administrative certification, so what goes around, comes around.

pitbulllady

 

[hassman789]

My question is, How did they even get through security with the turtle?

 

[super-pede]

Just one more reason I dig through public trash cans and dumpsters.

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

She actually called a local guy to come out to the school and SHOOT the cat! That's how terrified these ignorant people were of cats, even worse than of a snake. One other teacher kept telling me, "you know that thing is the DEVIL, right?" I told her I'd give her my paycheck if she found ONE reference in the Bible to house cats, ANY cats other than wild species like lions or leopards("pards"), and needless to say, I got to keep my check.

Jeez, where and when did you experience this? Salem, Massachusetts circa 1692?

 

[dtknow]

everyone run in horror as midget turtle escapes and smears salmonella all over the passengers, causing massive diarrhea and bathroom overflow.

 

[B8709]

everyone run in horror as midget turtle escapes and smears salmonella all over the passengers, causing massive diarrhea and bathroom overflow.

LOL. Awesome ;P

 

[spyderlady]

This made me so mad! I thought 'How could they tell a child to throw it away?!'

 

[LeilaNami]

To be honest, her 22 year old sister was with her. The article states that they threw the turtle away so they wouldn't miss their flight. A 22 year old should have more sense and compassion than that. There's no excuse for her or for the airlines.

 

[ZergFront]

If they thought the turtle was such a temporary burden on a plane, imagine how they'd react to the burden of buying the cage it's going to need when it grows up!

 

[pouchedrat]

If they thought the turtle was such a temporary burden on a plane, imagine how they'd react to the burden of buying the cage it's going to need when it grows up!

lol.. it probably won't make it that far with that kind of beginning already in those owners' hands.

 

[pitbulllady]

Jeez, where and when did you experience this? Salem, Massachusetts circa 1692?

Well, you'd probably think so, but it was sadly rural South Carolina, circa 1999. Many people around here are afraid of cats to some degree and the practice of keeping a cat as an indoor pet is still not very common. Most people who have cats just have feral "barn cats" which they claim kill rats and mice, and those same people conveniently ignore the fact that the cats also kill just about every other small animal or bird before becoming a snack for a coyote, owl or other wild predator or being turned into cat pizza on the highway. They could care less. Cats just aren't considered valuable animals like dogs or fighting roosters around here. There are still many myths about animals, not just cats, that are very prevalent around here, from the one about Coachwhips chasing and beating people to death to the one about cats sucking the breath(and souls) from babies.

pitbulllady

 

[Faing]

There are still many myths about animals, not just cats, that are very prevalent around here, from the one about Coachwhips chasing and beating people to death to the one about cats sucking the breath(and souls) from babies.

pitbulllady

Wow, even though I live in Va, I've never heard that myth about cats.
Around here we got those rattlesnakes and black snakes breeding with each other according to a few people I'm aquaitned with Apparently one guy saw one that was HUGE!

also, there are a few more dogs that have no shots here than I'd like... Of course, there are many responsible owners too.

 

[pouchedrat]

Ive heard that myth before... here in Maryland of all places. People keep telling me to get rid of my two cats (as well as everything else) when my baby is born. They said the same thing when my other kid was born as well, didn't happen obviously. And yet they're ok with dogs being in the house around the infants.

 

[proper_tea]

It's really obnoxious to me that PETA is trying to have employees at the airline disciplined. These people never looked into whether they could bring a turtle on a plane... and just decided to do so, and then... even though they were offered the opportunity take a later flight at no extra charge, and to do something responsible with the turtle, instead, they threw it in the trash and got on the flight. Now, you want to tell me that the airline employees are somehow responsible for the stupidity of these people. Come on!

If PETA wants to make a statement about this, it should be that if you are going to own pets, you need to do so responsibly.

 

[pitbulllady]

It's really obnoxious to me that PETA is trying to have employees at the airline disciplined. These people never looked into whether they could bring a turtle on a plane... and just decided to do so, and then... even though they were offered the opportunity take a later flight at no extra charge, and to do something responsible with the turtle, instead, they threw it in the trash and got on the flight. Now, you want to tell me that the airline employees are somehow responsible for the stupidity of these people. Come on!

If PETA wants to make a statement about this, it should be that if you are going to own pets, you need to do so responsibly.

PETA's position on people owning pets is that they don't want people to own pets, period! This is especially true of "exotic" or non-traditional pets like reptiles, and like their allies, the HSUS, they use ever incident like this one to say, "See! This is always what happens when people try to keep reptiles as pets! ALL reptile owners are like this-careless, cruel and irresponsible, so we must ban the keeping of reptiles so people can't treat them cruelly!"
PETA believes that all animals are really better off dead than being kept by humans. In this case, they're targeting the airlines because that is a public entity, and that airline probably does ship animals. They have to blame someone, after all, and just most likely feel that if it's a company, they can get a bit more mileage out of the incident than if it was an individual.

pitbulllady