Tortoise Steals Barbecue

The neighbourhood has really gone downhill

Tortoise Steals Barbecue

Let’s make like annoying drama students for a second and indulge in some role play. Pretend you’re a tortoise. Come on, this is fun. Ok, tortoise persona assumed, what’s the one thing you’d change about your shell-like world?

Us? We’d attach a skateboard or some roller skates to our feet. Anything, anything at all, to make us move faster.

Unfortunately, our reptile friends don’t seem to have acquired such rational thought as yet. For they – if the below video is anything to go by - would rather swipe barbecues. Don’t ask us why. Being herbivores, what are they gonna grill? Grass? Unlikely. Lettuce. Can’t see that one working out.

Maybe we should be grateful for such idiocy. After all, sometimes it’s nice to be reminded that us humans are slightly cleverer than other species.

Marc Chacksfield
Content Director

As Content Director of Shortlist, Marc likes nothing more than to compile endless lists of an evening by candlelight. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.