A Florida man shot a volunteer in the butt because he doesn't like sea turtles

 By 
Max Knoblauch
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Imagine not liking sea turtles. Then imagine not liking sea turtles so much that you would attack someone who does like sea turtles.

That's what happened on July 17 in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida, when a man approached and subsequently attacked two volunteers watching over a sea turtle nest.

According to WPLG 10, a man walked up to the two volunteers, telling them that he "did not like sea turtles." When the man began aggressively pulling out stakes that were used to rope off a turtle nest, one of the volunteers pulled out his handgun.

Witnesses say that the man then wrestled the volunteer to the ground, shooting him in the buttocks. He was later taken into police custody.

The most inexplicable part of the whole ordeal is that we may never learn what sea turtles did to this man to make him so angry.

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