Turtle ends up in newly poured concrete floor

Stowaway turtle survives a 4 hour ordeal

"You’re in the lakes next to our stockpiles and turtles will crawl out and (sun)bathe themselves on a pile and may fall asleep or something," said Marchi, a 30-year veteran of the concrete business.

Being scooped, dropped and mashed in a violent soup of gravel, sand and concrete was only the beginning for the armored reptile.

The turtle also survived the churning trip inside the concrete truck. And at the job site, the lumpy mixture was pumped up a tube and dumped out. The entire odyssey would have lasted more than four hours.

"It was quite a journey," Marchi said.

Then it survived the trowel machine, which uses rotating blades and its quarter-ton weight to smooth nearly cured concrete.

"The guy thought it was a piece of wire mesh until it started moving," said Marchi, who recalled finding turtles and even a snake on jobs. "It’s not unusual to get critters."

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