My friend found this turtle while on her internship. Please start cutting these.

iamhusband · 11 months

Cut those things but also don't lie about your friend finding a turtle and taking a picture.

UnholyOsiris · 11 months

Nope. Good attempt at spreading a message though. Try doing your research next time.

James-VZ · 11 months

You want me to cut turtles? What the fuck is wrong with you?

blackpandemic · 11 months

I'm impressed that the shell just grew around it like that. Damn nature, you impressive!

ChadOgea · 11 months

But it's so slimming. I've never seen a turtle with that beautiful an hourglass figure before.

HaxSir · 11 months

Im sorry to say this, but that turtle is going to make a sick Uke one day. Siiiiick.

vornan19 · 11 months

Buy bottled beer, save a turtle!

Kempiet · 11 months

When we buy tinnies we play a game called "Twat" each person puts their hand into one of the rings and then you all pull at the same time, the one person with the plastic left on his wrist is a Twat and they have to wear it for the rest of the night. This turtle obviously lost.

NeonCat93 · 11 months

Or, you know, don't litter. I doubt this made it from a landfill into the ocean.

ArthurRiot · 11 months

Bonsaii Turtles? That's new...

jahutch2 · 11 months

Gives a slightly more amusing meaning to phenotypic plasticity...

thedude213 · 11 months

I can't even remember the last time I bought anything that had those rings.

Auklon · 11 months

Those Curves!

Zeliek · 11 months

Not sure if photoshopped. Looks a little.. odd... also this isn't YOUR photo, as someone else pointed out.

Also thats a painted turtle... they live in awfully swampy areas. How on earth did that plastic stay so clean? I mean it should at least have shit stuck in it, like water weeds... which get on EVERYTHING.

shrapnel09 · 11 months

Research 21 years in the making comes to a sad conclusion - Captain Planet apparently had no effect on my generation. :(

joe7dust · 11 months

Good intentions, but poor advice. Put them with the recyclables, not the normal trash while wasting time cutting them.

Of course if you don't have a recycling program this isn't an option, but most on here would make better use of the above advice.

platipress · 11 months

I would take him home and call him peanut.

mongerty · 11 months

Instead of cutting them, lets just not buy cans of beer/soda in 6 packs. I literally have not seen one of these plastic things in my fridge for almost a decade.

xaturnascends · 11 months

he would be perfect for a turtle shell guitar...

Hoversloth · 11 months

None coming from Canadians - as those are ban here.

magnavita · 11 months

Plastic surgery?

/going to hell.

keepishop · 11 months

Cute face, skinny waist, with a big behind...

Saavy101 · 11 months

I don't drink from cans.
I don't drink soda.
I recycle.

...

Wasn't mine.

backtoaster · 11 months

Better yet: Don't throw them into the sea or the woods. Dispose of them properly.

FatCat433 · 11 months

But how else am I ever supposed to meet that turtle with the hourglass figure that I so long for?

Lafklownlaf · 11 months

I stopped drinking soda a long time ago, so my impact is slightly less. Woo.

MagicalAndrew · 11 months

What the actual fuck.

Tannekr · 11 months

Cutting these would severely hamper my fishing strategy.

Epic_Burrito · 11 months

"Hey turtle, nice belt."

SonOfSamJackson · 11 months

dem curves

misterthirsty · 11 months

Meh, I like the Bonsai Kittens better.

thudwhomper · 11 months

Turtle girdle!

monkeyvselephant · 11 months

Relevant

littmannsteth · 11 months

HEY AMERICA!, stop fucking using these, everyone else uses cardboard!

[deleted] · 11 months

i grew up in florida, where cutting plastic rings is one of the things hammered into your head in school. i've lived in wisconsin for the better part of my adult life and it's still just habit.

stingertorra · 11 months

Where are the other 5 turtles from that sixpack?

Gr4yhound · 11 months

looks like evolution to me.

basscheez · 11 months

I would totally eat that turtle and make a violin out of its shell. Hate away.

lolowhat · 11 months

I haven't seen a 6-pack ring for 10 years in Sweden

pokeylope · 11 months

I think that turtle probably put it on as a corset. And it worked! Look at that va-va-voom hip-to-waist ratio!

Llamapiez · 11 months

I don't care about reposts, but I hate it when people make up stories about the repost, so it sounds realistic.

rubawai · 11 months

Or you could just rip them apart LIKE A REAL MAN!

Turkky · 11 months

Most women would kill to have that figure.

peter-pickle · 11 months

Must be from diet coke - so slimming.

Infinite_Troll · 11 months

The turtle looks fine to me, he obviously adapted to the handicap the plastic rings put on him. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but I mean the guy did make it this far.

hawkeyes732 · 11 months

pretty durable plastic if you ask me.

infiniteslinky · 11 months

Why would I cut a turtle?

[deleted] · 11 months

What? Why would you lie about the picture? I'm speechless... people actually do this? There's a difference between bullshitting, trolling and PLAIN LYING.

People are horrible. Time to destroy the karma system for good pls?

Todamont · 11 months

Also, don't throw your trash in the ocean (or wrap it around baby turtles).

lauranater007 · 11 months

So sad : ( I always cut them.

sammcj · 11 months

I didn't think those things were still legal?!?!
They certainly haven't been legal in NZ for decades :/

benthearthur · 11 months

YOUR friend didn't find anything. YOU found a picture on the internet. I heard it best earlier today. If you found a picture on the internet, it's already been on reddit. But good message none-the-less I suppose...

thebeansdude · 11 months

eat the turtle and sell the shell on ebay... make some money

WilliamEDodd · 11 months

I love how people say start cutting them when in reality you should stop buying anything that comes like that. Don't use plastic that's made to just throw away. Reduce and reuse should be your main objectives.

pottymouthgrl · 11 months

Regardless of who took the picture, it's still an important message!

gliff159 · 11 months

at least this turtle has a nice figure now

robotoverlordz · 11 months

His buddies call him, "Crazy 8"

tdn · 11 months

Bullshit.

MjolnirMK86 · 11 months

I feel both sorry for the turtle and disgusted.

goniss · 11 months

Dude, cutting turtles is NOT cool!

PixieFurious · 11 months

When I was a kid, I would obsessively cut these into tiny pieces. Now I"m glad I did.

Jacob6493 · 11 months

I'm down voting for a lie.

Matt08642 · 11 months

Why can't you shitheads post something like "Cut these, or this could happen"?? Why do you have to lie about knowing the person who took the photo, or claiming it's original?

[deleted] · 11 months

His name should be Peanut :)

RadioHitandRun · 11 months

Hour glass shaped turtles?! we'll make millions!

Beady · 11 months

wow, thats weird, your friend took a picture of the exact same turtle at the exact same angle that some other person did!

sbranson · 11 months

You need to put one of those things on your wife before you marry her! Am I right guys?

Bst1337 · 11 months

That just by coincidence stuck on a violin turtle. Nothing special...

dancinggamer · 11 months

i was cutting these at work the other day and my coworker asked why? she had never seen a picture of an animal with it around its neck or anything, so i will show her this :)

ImNotAWhaleBiologist · 11 months

That has to be photoshopped. There's no way that years of growth would be inhibited by the plastic. The plastic would stretch, even if it would survive the years of UV.

[deleted] · 11 months

That just doesn't look natural.

DionysosX · 11 months

Reminds me of Karl Pilkington's rant on one of the "Ricky Gervais Guide to ..." podcasts where he goes on about a cashier is accusing him of killing two turtles by not buying the carrier bags that cost 5 pence more.

wBeeze · 11 months

I thought it was a "turd cutter" joke until I saw the picture.

syphear · 11 months

I always just used them as duck traps, that's what I was taught in elementary school. They never said anything about being turtles traps

tnethacker · 11 months

I already do cut these things so that no birds etc. will get stuck on them.

HanselGretel · 11 months

I thought at first that this was a picture of the turtle centipede.

DavosSeaworthy · 11 months

That picture's given me a great idea.

RODLOL · 11 months

If we know how long it was on the turtle and the elasticity of the soda thing, we can find the force at which turtles grow.

LGmonz · 11 months

So sad

vapidly · 11 months

Wasn't sure what i was looking at at first....that is really sad and hard to look at.

zxcv73 · 11 months

What for? That turtle looks so HOT in that! I've never seen a better looking turtle in my life!

Lyzdog · 11 months

I always cut these, and at parties I am amazed at how many people ask why. Just fucking do it, people. Even if most animals don't get caught in them.

Xef · 11 months

I haven't personally had anything that came with one of those in years...

mamyt1 · 11 months

I put them in the shredder at work.

frozentedwilliams · 11 months

Looks to me that with all the time they have to scout their way ahead, that turtles should probably, at some point during the thirty five minutes that they're slowly approaching a plastic loop they probably can't fit through, learn to simply turn left.

somagaze · 11 months

Relevant

bf3philly · 11 months

Couldn't find the pic, but this reminds me of the simpsons episode when Lisa shows Mr Burns how dangerous these are to nature and Mr Burns sews a bunch of these together to make the most amazing fishing net.

00rubyrhod00 · 11 months

When he dies, he'll make an adorable violin body

warpus · 11 months

This is actually MY friend, who is also a turtle

zeppelinled99 · 11 months

fuck thats really messed up

Lots42 · 11 months

Imgur is down. What are we supposed to be cutting?

AdamLynch · 11 months

That plastic must be like a decade old.

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