# It's a cooter crisis!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-cooter-crisis/424333>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 28, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-cooter-crisis/424333 "2007-10-28T14:04:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-cooter-crisis/424333/1 "2007-10-28T14:04:32Z")

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I swear I am not making this up:

[Cooter Crisis in Citrus County](http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2007/10/26/298106.html?title=Cooter+crisis+in+Citrus+County)

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> “Cooters,” she said. “They all look the same. So I had no idea that there was a difference.”

Hat tip to Fark.

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**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-cooter-crisis/424333/2 "2007-10-28T14:41:03Z")

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I wish I’d heard about that festival sooner…I would have loved to enter the Miss Cooter spokesmodel competition.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-cooter-crisis/424333/3 "2007-10-28T17:20:57Z")

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> “So that leads to the logical question: How can you find a fast cooter?”

The eternal question.