A pair of California Highway Patrol officers caught up with a tortoise on the run over the weekend and returned the escape artist to its owners, authorities said. The Santa Ynez Animal Rescue center had picked the animal up, so officers headed there to meet him, McCool said. It turned out the “turtle” was actually a 150-pound giant tortoise. Brooks and Serleth had to work together to hoist the creature and carefully place him in the back of their patrol vehicle. After the runaway was securely inside the vehicle, the officers drove slowly — very slowly — to Milton’s Mutts, another animal rescue center the tortoise called home.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 17, 2019 20:54 UTC