Horst examined the abducted animal and found "no scrapes, fractures or drag marks" showing it had been run over. Linkclump - Chrome Web Store - Google Chrome Create a Google Chrome Extension Part 2: Image Grabber Link Gopher Get this Extension for Firefox (en-US). (During the Great Depression, hungry Floridians ate gopher tortoises, which they dubbed "Hoover chickens," after President Herbert Hoover's promise of a chicken in every pot.) "He admitted making a comment that 'they used to eat them back in the day,' " Horst wrote in his report. He said he had no idea what happened to its tracking device. He planned to take it to a neighbor in Port Orange who is a wildlife rehabilitation expert. The man said he'd seen another car hit the tortoise and had picked up the injured animal out of compassion. The wildlife officer, Joshua Horst, questioned the Murano's driver. The trooper called in a state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer. That's when the passenger, Pamela Hampton, informed the trooper that they had a live tortoise in the back. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper pulled the Nissan over at a RaceTrac gas station in Palm Bay.
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The passenger called 911 on her cellphone to report that the driver had hit her. Sure enough, while driving back out of Archbold, the driver stopped, hopped out, grabbed the tortoise and wrestled it into the Murano's hatchback.Īt some point, someone used a long blade like a machete to chop the radio transmitter off the shell.Īs the couple cruised east toward home, though, they got into an argument.
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