Brooklyn Outraged Over Spraypainted Turtle
Filed under: City Living
A few folks in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, found their favorite backyard turtle for the first time this spring -- newly spraypainted.
Being from Brooklyn, they reached out to the blog Gowanus Lounge. They wrote:
We have this turtle that wanders through the different backyards here. She hibernates every winter and comes out every spring. I had been wondering why she wasn't "up" yet , by May 1st; but, I blamed it on the lack of rain in the last half of april. It seems though that she had gotten up and out instead. My landlord passed her through the window to me day before yesterday looking like the photo. Painted. Pepto colored spray paint. It is obviously intentional because she got such a sustained spray that it has drip marks. The face and feet, as well.
The neighbors suspect workers from a nearby construction site, since the paint appears to match a color used there. Me, I'm not ready to make the leap. But I have put a bug into a herpetologist I know for advice about how to clean the critter up.
Bonus: Newsday story on the turtle.
2:15 PM ET | 05- 6-2008 | permalink
