Pet tortoise, missing since 1982, found in attic alive and well

[UrbScotty]

Earlier last month, after their father Leonel passed away, the Almeida children returned to help clean out his cluttered storage room upstairs. As it turns out, Leonel was somewhat of a horder, so the room was jam-packed with things that he had found on the street, like broken televisions and furniture. Deciding it was mostly junk, the family set about moving it to the trash out front.

But while son Leandro Almeida was making a trip to the dumpster with a box of broken records, a neighbor asked him if he was intending to throw out the tortoise that was holed up inside.

"At that moment I was white and did not believe," Leandro told Globo TV.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How cool that they found her! Amazing.

[shenmue]

2. Squee!

[leftyohiolib]

3. what does this mean?

"At that moment I was white and did not believe," Leandro told Globo TV.

[MADem]

4. I was gonna say "What, another one?" and then I saw that this is the same story from Feb 2013!

I thought that was far too much of a coincidence!!!

This came around a year and a half ago, but it's a fun story.