Turtle News/Archive002

Turtle News/Archive002

Tortoise threatens man 2007.11.02 OK, I've heard about siccing your dogs on someone, feeding them to your pet shark / alligator / whatever, but sending in the tortoise is just going too far!! Another bizzare incident has occured on the Copperbelt in which a man has received a letter delivered by a tortoise threatening him for failing to settle a debt. In September, a Kitwe resident received letters from NAKONDE delivered by a tortoise and a dove asking him to pay K50 million he owed. This time the incident involves a Ndola resident, Mumena Mushinge, who allegedly owes a Tanzanian national, Sumba Wanga K26.9 million. The tortoise carrying the letter written in Swahili was found at Mr. Mushinge’s residence on President Avenue Thursday morning. The letter from a Mr. Jean Marie has given Mr. Mushinge three days to pay the money or face serious consequences, which include death. more >> America's latest controversy -- turtle fences Turtle fence along US 31. (Source: WoodTV) 2007.10.25 With American foreign policy in a shambles, our war spending beyond comprehension, this week our elected officials decided to argue about ... turtles. Michigan has started construction on a fence to keep turtles off of US Highway 31. Republican congressman Peter Hoekstra believes it's a waste of taxpayer money[1]. (Perhaps he believes the 300k could be better put to use in buying a bolt for a jet in Iraq. In the state vs federal power debate, I often favor state rights over federal. I love the following rebuttal. -- Tometheus (talk) 13:01, 28 October 2007 (CDT)) Your elected leaders in Lansing have not had the luxury you have had of repeatedly rubberstamping unbalanced federal budgets. In fact, the federal budgets of the past several years have grown at an average annual rate of more than seven percent since 2002, while Michigan's general fund spending was lower in 2007 than it was in 2002. With all due respect, I do not believe your state budget advice would advance our state budget or economic climates. -- Governor Granholm[2] Brian Dickerson points this out[3]: In reality, Hoekstra's alarm is about as genuine as Claude Rains' shock at discovering that gambling was going on in Humphrey Bogart's Casablanca café. As Michigan transportation officials pointed out in a more private exchange of letters with Hoekstra in 2005, federal restrictions he and his congressional colleagues approved require each state to spend a portion of its highway money on nonconstruction projects -- and specifically suggest wildlife preservation as an appropriate use of such funds. more >> Drunken fishermen have all the luck A Rare Albino Tortoise 2007.10.20 Another albino tortoise showed up in India this week. A rare white tortoise was brought by an inebriated fisherman to a person in Warangal, India two days back. People rushed to visit the tortoise saying that it was a sign of kurmavataram (Tortoise posture) of Lord Vishnu. more >> < Previous | Turtle News | Next >