Lacking Ninja Training, Trapped Turtle is Rescued from City Sewer by Police and Firefighters – Good News Network
Fire department officers on Florida’s Sanibel Island were alerted to the plight of a local turtle who had fallen into the sewer.What’s more, it seemed to the first responders that the terapin lacked certain mutations and ninja-like agility known to be common in sewer turtles, and therefore needed someone else to save it.Captain Robert Wilkins and his team received the call from a local on a December day shortly before Christmas.“The call came into the firehouse and the lady was obviously distraught,” Wilkins said. “She was telling us the turtle was in a drain and it had been there for three or four days. She’d called multiple people to help it and no one was coming.”A sanctuary island for species of all stripes, the drain was located in a nearby strip mall. Down below, there was enough water to keep the turtle’s skin moist, but all around were piles of muck and debris.Wilkins and his team told local news that the turtle was armed with neither samurai swords nor nunchucks, and despite the shortsighted decision not to bring any pizza, the turtle surprisingly didn’t ask for any.Opening the grate, two of the fire department officers lowered a third down into the small shaft by his legs. Firefighter Allen Schelm volunteered for the job, and managed to get the turtle out single-handedly.Fort Myers News-Press reports that the trio has earned new nicknames, including “Michelangelo.”MORE WILDLIFE RESCUES: Watch Arizona Firefighters Rescue Entangled Hawk: ‘Humans, Pets, Animals–We Take Care of Them All’“We may or may not have ordered some rubber duckies with that written on them,” Schelm joked. But for the turtle itself, locals on scene drew from a different inspiration than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. MORE WILDLIFE RESCUES: Watch Rope-Dangling Rescue of Young Mountain Lions Before Dam Deluge ‘Likely Would Have Drowned Them’“We held him up and asked them what he should be called,” and some children said, “Mr. Pickles, because he had gotten himself in a pickle.”SHARE This Cute Story, Caring Officers, And Lucky Turtle With Your Friends…Want A Morning Jolt of Good News?You must be logged in to post a comment.Want A Morning Jolt
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