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Leading Article: Terrapin terror
Independent, The (London), Jul 31, 2002
FEW NOW remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a teenage fad that peaked in about 1989. For those unfamiliar with it, a craze for pet terrapins was sparked by a film featuring four heroic amphibians named after Renaissance artists (viz Donatello, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael). They ate pizza.
But neglected as that phenomenon may now be, its living legacies occasionally surface, life imitating a sort of art, because a few of those red-eared terrapins that were flushed down lavatories across the nation survived in the sewers, eventually to emerge as formidable warriors, rather like the filmic originals. The latest dinner plate sized monster is to be found at Red Pond in Worsley Mesnes, Wigan and goes by the less than renaissance name of Crusty, after his passion for meat pies. His exploits may even spark a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles revival, and the whole cycle can start afresh. Cowabunga!
Copyright 2002 Independent Newspapers UK Limited
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