Hundreds of turtles found crammed in one house  Hundreds of
turtles found crammed in one house »Play Video HERMISTON, Ore.
-- A bizarre health hazard was recently uncovered at a house
near the Washington-Oregon state line.  More than 700 turtles
were found living in the same home. And that number just may end
up as an unusual record.  An army of red-eared sliders - 728 of
them, to be exact - were taken from the Hermiston home after
police received a tip that a woman was hawking them at a
festival.  Inside the woman's home investigators found hundreds
of turtles jammed in crates, stacked on top of each other.
"When you find this many, it's unusual and it has you open your
eyes, too, that little problems can be bigger in some areas,"
said Kevin Blakely with the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The turtles are illegal in Oregon and Washington mainly because
they carry salmonella even when they're small. One runs a risk
of being infected simply by holding one of the turtles.  "They
kind of lose their appeal as