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[cool][#005028]Have you ever seen an Alligator Turtle? Well while cleaning out Laguna Lake in Orange Cty Calif. the workers were surprise and perhaps a little frighten as to what they caught. Here is the story.
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[font "Californian FB"][size 3]Giant snapping turtle found in Laguna Lake

The legend of a vicious snapping turtle named Old Bob turned out to be true when workers hired to scoop fish from Laguna Lake pulled out the 50-year-old creature.
For 40 years, residents around the man-ade lake had heard rumors about the 100-pound reptile known as an alligator snapping turtle.
"No wonder folks get excited,' Sharon Paquette, vice president of the Orange County chapter of the California Turtle and Tortoise Club, said Thursday after the snapper surfaced.
"It's an awesome sight to see what looks like a prehistoric creature.'
Officials didn't know how the giant turtle, normally found in the South and Midwest, got to the lake.
Alligator snapping turtles are the largest of all freshwater turtles in North America, growing up to 250 pounds and living longer than 100 years. It has a wormlike used to attract its prey, a huge head with a hooked beak and ridge-like shell.
The creature is illegal in California, Paquette said, because they breed and multiply easily with no predator to keep their population in check.
They're also dangerous.
"These are powerful animals,' said Paquette, who plans to send Old Bob to a turtle preserve on the East Coast. "A human could lose a foot or fingers.'
Now heressssssss Bob!
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aww, aint he qute [blush]

that is one is not even half grown yet. but still good sized for what is found these days.

there is one in a lake that is the size of a vw beatle. no joke no exageration.... they get huge up to about 300 pounds and live up to a couple hundred years. we had one of the caliber I mentioned in a local zoo aquarium.

I ate one twice the size of the one in your picture...

but your wornings are not to be shrugged off in jest. they are dangerous by far beond beleif, not only can they remove a limb thay can drown a man 5 times their own weight.

great stroy thanks...
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Beautiful, juvenile specimen of the Alligator Snapping Turtle. I've seen smaller ones in Cali when I still lives there.
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Wow,
He's a big turtle!

I've fished that lake a couple times, great bass fishing! Why are they taking the fish out?
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Hey there guys,

Take Bob away?! No!No! Bob is our buddy how come he's going to be turtle-napped and sent off to the east coast?!

I'm for keeping him in California and maybe finding him a girlfriend. Like....we don't have any aquariums or zoos that could not accomodate him! He sounds like star material to me.

JapanRon
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[][][][]Turtle-Napped (lol) [][][][]
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[cool][#005028]The lake is being drain and then will under go a $7 million dollar renovatation.[/#005028]
[#005028]Hey JR I couldn't understand it either why Bad Bob was being shipped back East. Maybe some restaurant want to show him off.[/#005028]
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ya, I bet, just before next weeks clam chowder[] at 45 slurp bucks a bowl....

I wonder how many more turtles are going to be shipped back east to show off...

we know there has to be at least 100 or more turtles in that lake...
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I'm sure we could show off a couple of nice turtles on the Recipe board.[] But "NOT BOB"[pirate]!!!! There are plenty of other turtles to show off.

I always like to eat the turtle eggs down in Baja Cali. They are rich in protein and Vi..... vitamins.
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I am not much for any other eggs other than chickens, I have eaten guenie, pheasent, duck, turkey and pecock eggs, even tryed pearch eggs once, I realy did not have a taist for them, I dont mind cooking with the other fowl eggs in cakes breads and other baking dishes, but when it comes to fryed scrambled or omlets, nothing but the kackle fruit will do[]

my favorite is kackle fruit served over easy on top of biskets and gravey...[][]
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Hi there theangler,

I'll be watching for his 'sale' on ebay. They try to sell just about anything on that site...... until.... the ebay police find 'em.. that is!

JapanRon
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One of my alltime favorites is eggs over-easy on top of freshly grilled bluegill or other panfish fillets, smothered with sauteed mushroom and topped with a little bernaise sauce.
Yummmmmmy.

Second runner up would be trout and eggs (any style) for breakfast.
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YEP , BOB AIN'T SO BIG .
AS A KID WE USED TO CATCH SNAPPERS IN MAINE USING THE BROKE OFF END FROM A SISSY BAR . SOME OF THE TURTLES HAD DATES FROM THE 1800'S CARVED INTO THEM , SOME FORM OF "THING TO DO " BACK IN GREAT GREAT GRAND PAPPYS DAY .
THOSE COMMERSE LAKE GATORS ARE BIG THOU , BIGGER THAN A SEMI TRAILER TIRE EASILY .
BOB LOOKS A LITTLE DIRTY , MAYBE THEY SHOULD SEND HIM UP OUR WAY FOR A GOOD CLEANING AND A HOT BATH , LOL !
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