Turtle Roadkill Experiment Conclusively Proves That Humans are
Assholes  I've been saying this for years, and nobody ever
listens to me: people, en masse, are shit. Like, actual shit.
Believe me, I'd love to be wrong about this, but here's a new
experiment that verifies my theory. It takes a turtle seven or
eight years to reproduce, and a female turtle who lives 50 years
may lay over 100 eggs, but only two or three of those will live
to reproduce themselves. Nathan Weaver, a student at Clemson
University in South Carolina with an interest in animal
conservation, decided to examine the reason behind the declining
rate of box turtles.  Weaver placed a plastic turtle just down
the road from a student-dominated apartment complex and
monitored the 267 vehicles who passed by; seven of them
intentionally swerved to hit the fake turtle. A week later, he
placed a fake turtle in a residential area in the middle of the
lane, as if it had just begun to cross the road. The second of
the 50 cars to pass by intentionally hi