Some laws are designed to protect wild creatures. The protection of people is not nearly as important as a laughing prosecutor signaled in an interview for Philadelphia TV about a man who allegedly had 3,400 or so turtles in his Bristol, PA home.
Even worse is how gleeful some prosecutors get trying to prove innocent people are guilty.
This is a story from back in July about a guy from Bristol shipping boxes of turtles to Canada. The grinning prosecutor explained the man had 3,400 turtles in his Bristol PA home. Presumably they were alive and in great condition. It’s even probable that he collected turtle eggs and hatched them which would have a very high success rate compared to freshly hatched and helpless newborn, defenseless turtles born in the wild where other wildlife, including birds, racoons, even domestic house cats and dogs would catch and kill them.
It’s an easy case to make that he was protecting them even more by taking care of them instead of leaving them to be killed by predators.
For sure they were not going into turtle soup. The snapping turtle, found mainly in the United States and is still found in certain regional cuisines, particularly in Philadelphia cuisine where it’s called simply, turtle soup.
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