OK, this is one huge cooter!

[Laffy Kat]

Gasp.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/national/creature-with-bear-like-claws-emerges-from-depths-leaving-mother-daughter-duo-freaked-out/ar-AA14fzdJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=28e1604c5d6a45e6b403861639d94d47

[MineralMan]

1. That's a big one, all right.

I had a similar encounter while on a local MN lake in my 12' aluminum boat. I was fishing near an island in the lake when a huge snapping turtle surfaced right next to my boat. It didn't do anything but breathe and then it sank back down. I moved to a different location. I estimated its weight at well over 100 pounds.

[Laffy Kat]

2. Amazing.

I once had a beer with a fellow who owed a river-bottom salvage company. I grew up in Memphis and he worked mostly on the Mississippi River. He reported catfish "as big as cows" and other monsters thriving in the rich, Mississippi silt.

[MineralMan]

5. I used to fish for catfish in downtown St. Paul, MN

Biggest I ever caught weighed 35 lb. One day, though, I had a bite on cut bait. I set the hook, and whatever was on the end if my line took off and stripped all the line on my reel. Don't know what it was, but it was damned big.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. That thing is probably older than the combined IQ of all repug Senators added together.

[Laffy Kat]

6. ......

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Omg is that a 🐢 turtle

[NickB79]

7. Apparently "cooter" means different things in different parts of the US

🤣🤣🤣

[newdayneeded]

8. Yep!

I chuckled reading the headline!