joeendris
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OK, today I noticed a snapping turtle on the side of the road. Something wasn't right, as I drove by. I turned around and went back. That's when I noticed that whole back half of the turtle was, essentially, blown out. Some jackass hit the thing and kept going, leaving the snapper in the middle of the road (because it was apparently not enough of an impact to notice?)
I put my car in the way...enough to keep folks from this turtle and called my local dept. There wasn't enough left of the turtle to save, sadly. Shell was split all the way from stem to stern, pcs were strewn 15-20 feet downwind of the "hit", jaw was smashed in several pcs (part of it was sticking out of its head), etc, you get the idea. And the damn thing was still trying to get to the river....
With Mass laws the way they are, confusing at best, would I have been arrested if I put a round in its head? I would be "discharging" a firearm right on the road. Sadly, this is the third time this year that I've come upon hit-n-run animals.
To be clear, I did take a snapshot of what was left before my locals shot it, so it's clear there wasn't anything anybody could've done.
As it stands, my locals put one in its head.
I put my car in the way...enough to keep folks from this turtle and called my local dept. There wasn't enough left of the turtle to save, sadly. Shell was split all the way from stem to stern, pcs were strewn 15-20 feet downwind of the "hit", jaw was smashed in several pcs (part of it was sticking out of its head), etc, you get the idea. And the damn thing was still trying to get to the river....
With Mass laws the way they are, confusing at best, would I have been arrested if I put a round in its head? I would be "discharging" a firearm right on the road. Sadly, this is the third time this year that I've come upon hit-n-run animals.
To be clear, I did take a snapshot of what was left before my locals shot it, so it's clear there wasn't anything anybody could've done.
As it stands, my locals put one in its head.