She was 10, I wouldn't blame her. She was in the company of her 22 year old sister. I'd blame her.

The 22 year old is also the one who said that they told her to throw it away. Someone's not telling the truth...

Sure. And I'd still blame her unless she's also denying they offered to put her on a later flight after making sure the turtle was taken care of.

If an employee did suggest throwing the turtle away I'll not like them as well. But I'll still blame the person in authority over actually doing it.

Who are you blaming for this hated thing, though? Large companies that get sued dozens of times per day and so have a certain motivation to just avoid the more obvious stupid suits that could be brought or the people who file stupid lawsuits all of the time?

But I'm curious, if one of your library patrons came in saying "I have errands to run and can't take my turtle here with me. Would you hold him? I promise my husband will be along to pick him up before too long" would you really say "Sure, no problem, I'll just put that guy in the back here I'm sure it'll all work out."

No, I meant rabies...you know, the disease that caused Old Yeller to be put down.

We are supposed to have strict agricultural rules. The reason I put the two in the same sentence is that they current to do not reside in Hawaii (at least that is known about). If you turn in an illegal animal like a snake, hissing cockroach, Madagascar gecko among a small list, you gain amnesty. But, if they catch you it can be up to $25,000 fine and a year in jail. Dogs and cats which can carry rabies used to spend 120 days in quarantine, but now if your animal was immunized 30 days before arrival, then you can take the animal right from the airport.

REALLY?!? Wow, I didn't know they'd changed that rule so drastically.

They changed the rule 2-3 years ago, but they are really strict on the timing. if you go a day + or - outside the allowed range, quarantine it is! Lots of people, esp military didn't have the roughly $1500 to put the animal in for the 120 days. When my cousin moved to Hawaii from Las Vegas I would go up weekly to the quarantine station to check on Kuma since they were living on the Big Island and the only quarantine station was on Oahu.

Four pounds of parmesan?

I say that it was religious discrimination, because he was obviously a Pastafarian. ;)

That is so not my picture.