CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson University student Nathan Weaver set out to determine how to help turtles cross the road. He ended up getting a glimpse into the dark souls of some humans.
Weaver put a realistic rubber turtle in the middle of a lane on a busy road near campus. Then he got out of the way and watched over the next hour as seven drivers swerved and deliberately ran over the animal. Several more apparently tried to hit it but missed.
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I wonder what the correlation would be between male insecurity, gun ownership and turtle mashing...and going to violent films, playing video games that feature cruelty and death. The abstract man is oh-so-very-macho. The flesh and blood guy is fearful and paranoid. Happiness is a warm gun...or is it?
On a happier note, a number of year ago we saw a turtle crossing the road from a stream to a pond. We and some other passers-by began to warn cars to go around it. Someone must have called the police, who came and had an officer directing traffic around the turtle until it was safely across the road. As for a correlation between gun ownership and turtle smashing, that is really based upon a sterotype of what gun owners are like, isn't it? (I am not a gun owner, btw.) You might as well suggest that male beer drinkers are more likely to run over turtles, or male truck owners are more likely to do so. I would imagine that younger males are more prone to run over turtles, but that is only a guess, based upon maturity level.