Our friends, The Goddards, have a Koi pond full of beautiful fish. And a giant, prehistoric snapping turtle that likely grew to its huge size overnight by decapitating smaller painted turtles and taking all of the Koi Chow. Tonight, using the Snapper’s known susceptibility to a powerful drug also known as raw chicken wings, the turtle was captured and moved, safely, to a larger neighborhood pond. No fingers were lost. Here are the pictures.

UPDATE–According to this interesting and timely article from Slate Magazine, perhaps we should’ve left the turtle alone! Might’ve been a useful pond tenant.