Originally published at: A car passenger is struck in the head by a flying turtle (in Florida, of course) | Boing Boing
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Where they in first place?
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Lucky turtle! It very likely turtled-up in its shell as it flew through the air!
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Poor lady got a shellacking.
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Was the raptor ticketed for reckless turtle plummeting? (cf Aeschylus)
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So that’s what Om has been up to.
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Sure this is Florida? There is no Interstate 91 in Florida…
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I just saw the headline for this somewhere, shorn of all context: “Passenger survives being hit in head by flying turtle” and I thought, well, every part of that sentence raises questions…
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Could have gone worse.
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Florida Turtle is now a thing, didn’t have that on my Florida bingo card.
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I’m guessing it was a 'glades terrapin. they crawl onto the highway to sun, if a car tire hits them, they fly out like a watermelon seed. they usually don’t survive.
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This is honestly not the first time I’ve heard of this happening. Possibly the last time was on Boingboing even.
Edit: Yup
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Ballistic Turtle is a solid band name.
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I know this couple of jerk-ass plumbers that do this on go-kart tracks all the time.
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And oh, what a story he had to his fellow turtles.
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Came for Gamera and Pratchett references.
Well done everyone. Carry on. As you were.
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I’m guessing they meant 95 or 1.
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Maybe it was stopped by an eagle. That’s what did for Aeschylus. But he was bald, and the eagle mistook him for a rock.
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Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, died in the same way in 456 B.C., according to the legend, by receiving a turtle on the head, thrown by a bird of prey which would have confused his bald head with a stone intended to break the carapace.
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