Our New Neighbor

This is Gus. He is our new neighbor. It's been a few months since I first saw Gus sunning himself out on the curb near some grass and a small wooded area. Then a couple weeks ago he was out here in the middle of the street. Some other neighbor ladies were "doing their duty", I suppose, in "taking care of it". One of them tried to pick him (or her) up and almost had her arm taken off. Apparently there is a really long neck hiding in that boulder of a shell and some big fangs in the clenched lips (?). The ladies were worried that Gus would get run over, so they were trying to move him. I offered to call the local nature preserve, and they shooed me away, preferring instead to call 911. Mhhhh. I guess that's cool. I mean, what else does 911 have to do on a Saturday morning than move snapping turtles around to the wrong places? (They moved him across the street to a big drainage ditch thing that we have instead of back to the woods where he lives.)