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...make sure you have a Hunting license. [b][color:#3333FF]Link..![/color][/b] ![[Linked Image]](http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20160726-1469572385-terry-washington.jpg.ece/BINARY/1469572385-terry-washington.jpg) An Austin man who is accused of beating a turtle to death with a hammer told authorities he was acting in self-defense, his arrest-warrant affidavit says. Terry Washington, 55, told police that the turtle lunged at him and repeatedly tried to bite him after it had been hooked on a fishing line on the edge of Lady Bird Lake, KVUE-TV reports. According to the affidavit, he said he killed the turtle in self-defense and in order to get the fishing hook back, then dragged it under a bridge to get it out of the view of passers-by. The June 21 incident was captured on video by a runner, who posted it online. The graphic footage shows a man beating the turtle repeatedly with the blunt end of the hammer. Witnesses told police that Washington never attempted to free the turtle from the line and said that the turtle was trying to get away from him, according to KXAN-TV. An officer who went to the site found "a blood trail from the water's edge all the way to the turtle, which was approximately 75 feet away," the affidavit says. Washington confessed to killing the turtle two days later. He has been charged with felony cruelty to a non-livestock animal, as well as being cited for hunting without a license and improper disposal of a carcass.
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Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Killing a turtle is not easy!
A felony?
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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And HRC gets a complete pass!
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I'm just glad (as far as I know) there are no videos of me cleaning a snapping turtle.
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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And HRC gets a complete pass! He might be able to get off if he can prove no intent.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Or if he stored the turtle meat in a private ice chest server. 
Trump Won!
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Takes a hammer fishing? Ain't his first turtle rodeo....
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Blunt end of the hammer? Hammers have a sharp end, do they?
Mathew 22: 37-39
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Blunt end of the hammer? Hammers have a sharp end, do they? Claws.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Blunt end of the hammer? Hammers have a sharp end, do they? Claws. Peens...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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He should have brought a dead-blow...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Hammer is more cost efficient than 22 cartridges and a lot easier to find.  GW
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. MACHIAVELLI
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Good grief, kill a flipin turtle and be charged with a felony?
Something is very wrong with a society that would even contemplate such a thing.
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being the turtle was in his (the turtle's) home, surprised a charge of breaking and entering or home invasion wasn't thrown in.
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The man was "extremely careless" in the handling of this situation and should be let off the hook(no pun intended).
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Don't worry...you live in Texas...oh.......wait........nevermind.
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A rifle or spear is much more functional when dealing with aggressive turtles. Or people.
Turtle Lives Matter
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Good grief, kill a flipin turtle and be charged with a felony?
Something is very wrong with a society that would even contemplate such a thing. I would be prepared to bet money that a clinton wouldn't have been charged...but then it wouldn't have been beaten to death, it would have suicided.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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Bricktop looks a little ragged!
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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