# Box Turle escapes from Inwood Park. Rangers on the lookout! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045 "2011-12-04T18:48:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/1 "2011-12-04T18:48:48Z")
[Cite](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/12/04/park-rangers-on-the-lookout-after-box-turtle-escapes-from-inwood-park/). You know it’s a slow news day when this is the lead story. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/2 "2011-12-04T18:55:39Z")
Slow news, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/3 "2011-12-04T19:39:35Z")
Fox reports that this is a logical consequence of the state’s position on same-sex marriage. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/4 "2011-12-04T22:02:09Z")
Their best move would be to define a circle around his last known location, with a radius equal to hs maximum velocity times the time since his escape. That should give a region small enough to search efficiently. At a glance, you’d think. ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/5 "2011-12-04T22:19:44Z")
My stepfather, who grew up in that neighborhood, said to check the wall at Inwood Park, by the bridge with the big C for Columbia University. That is where he and his buddies used to hang out! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/6 "2011-12-05T12:52:44Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Their best move would be to define a circle around his last known location, with a radius equal to his maximum velocity times the time since his escape. That should give a region small enough to search efficiently. > > At a glance, you’d think. Nahh, all they have to do is look for a sleeping hare and follow him when he wakes up, the Turtle will be waiting there. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/7 "2011-12-05T14:02:40Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Their best move would be to define a circle around his last known location, with a radius equal to hs maximum velocity times the time since his escape. That should give a region small enough to search efficiently. > > At a glance, you’d think. Unless he jumped a ride. In a box car. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/8 "2011-12-05T14:15:14Z")
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. Who better to deliver it then than a turtle? Turtles may be slow to react but when they do… Somewhere out there in the forest a beatdown is a comin’. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/9 "2011-12-07T06:50:50Z")
He didn’t escape. He is stuck to the ceiling. They are nature’s suction cup. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/10 "2011-12-07T06:56:56Z")
He’ll come crawling back when he runs out of money. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/box-turle-escapes-from-inwood-park-rangers-on-the-lookout/605045/11 "2011-12-07T07:33:48Z")
> [@CBS New York](#): > > A neighborhood-wide turtle hunt has been initiated for an eastern box turtle that made a daring escape from the Inwood Hill Park Nature Center on Thursday. “Daring”, was it? So what were the details? Did he pull the old soap-and-shoe polish fake gun trick? Did he make a rope out of bedsheets? Tunnel his way out? Did some confederates from the outside swoop in with a helicopter?