JFK runway closed due to turtles all the way down

New York's JFK airport had to shut down a runway today because more than 150 diamondback terrapin turtles were hanging out and gettin' it on.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Tau’ma

Runaway turtles happy â™¥ together lets get it on…
Anonymous

Where are the elephants?
cjp

Seems like it’s going to be a bumper crop of turtles this year. Here in Eastern Ontario, we’re tripping over them. I’ve seen them digging into lawns to lay their nests and our local creek is teeming with hot turtle on turtle action. I think it’s something to do with the higher than usual water levels in the rivers. It’s been raining here for months. Go turtles!
Tdawwg

Fucking turtles.
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  How do they work?
Anonymous

Just like the man of whom the airport is named; can’t get enough of that funky stuff. This time the Secret Service didn’t need to do the pimping.
Anonymous

Diamondback terrapins *are* some of the sexiest turtles. Those clown lips!
Antinous / Moderator

Not quite as exciting as an orgy of diamondback rattlesnakes would have been.
Anonymous

“The diamondback terrapins were trying to get to an ideal location to lay their eggs…The turtles were primarily female, and the fertilization of their eggs occurs in the water…”

They weren’t mating at the point.
Anonymous

Fear the turtle! http://www.feartheturtle.umd.edu/
Jack

THEY ARE TERRORISTS AND NEED TO BE STOPPED!
transmothra

Thank you, Xeni, for perma-stapling “bow-chicka-wow” music to the phrase “turtles all the way down.” Niiiiiice.