Turtle kissing goes awry: snapper bites man's tongue

Calvin "Clicker" Embry, a 41-year-old laborer and turtle hunter from Wayne City, Ill., says he's performed his crowd-pleasing turtle-kissing act about a hundred times--and he'd never been bitten. That is, until he tried kissing a 15-pound snapping turtle on the 4th of July, when something went terribly wrong. "That doctor hadn't ever seen anything like this, so he took some pictures for the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine," Embry said. Evansville Courier & Press columnist Len Wells writes that the snapper's work on Embry's tongue affects his speech to a degree, but he says it won't make him stop kissing snappers' snouts.