Turtle Soup!

[Rocksurfer]

It seems that a vagrant decided to cook a desert tortoise for dinner last week in Joshua Tree, I understand it was a prized 30 yr. old big boy.

http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS01/808200328/1026/news12
Burned tortoise found in Joshua Tree grate | MyDesert.com | The Desert Sun

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hYwKoAkFZPG7k1xGB2Zekt3NXUowD92P6QIG0
The Associated Press: Desert tortoise numbers continue to decline

http://www.blm.gov/ca/forms/wildlife/details.php?metode=serial_number&search=2568

[unclejpl4x4]

so what you are saying is someone cook and  ate a turtle  ..................... ok whats the problem     why should i be forced 2 eat processed crap food from some crappy company   and not hunt / kill my dinner like it has been done for thousands of years.   only the last what 40yrs ?  we have been forced in 2 chemical induced body cell killing food from the gov ?

fing hippies  and nazi law bastards.

Now we got over population and a destroyed environment because of the food industry.  It's them we need 2 ban  so only the strong will survive and the over population will goaway.   and then the earth can heal     

[79coyotefrg]

too many ravens??  sounds like too many tree huggers  crying to mommy when  they should be out on saturday night at the landfill shooting birds with a 22

my God, when i was in high school the city paid  us teenagers  for every turtle we killed at the local swimming hole,     yea  i know them be different turtles  but still

send some kids out to the landfillto shoot some dang birds,  turtle problem fixed

[Rocksurfer]

Desert tortoises are endangered and a protected species, from what I understand this was a big turtle and actually had a name. Seems it wasn't afraid of humans from constant contact. My point here is that it was their own fault it got eaten since a normal wild animal would have avoided human contact.