Chinese man kisses turtle, hospitalised

A Chinese man who tried to give a goodbye kiss to a snapping turtle landed in a hospital after the creature bit him on the lip and refused to let go. A set of photos posted on China’s microblogging site, Weibo, showed the turtle clamping its jaws down on the victim.

The man, from Fujian province, was preparing to release the turtle in the wild, when he was unexpectedly bitten on the lips. The turtle refused to release its powerful, beaklike jaws and was dangling from the man’s face.