Whoever stole turtle Sputnik from a Carmel nature center, please give him back
Summary
But that’s not a good thing — it likely means the affable turtle didn’t leave the Cool Creek Nature Center in Hamilton County voluntarily. Hamilton County Parks officials suspect 10-year-old Sputnik was stolen and are appealing to his abductor to return him, no questions asked. He lived in a 50-gallon glass case on a stand, about eye level for small children, and was apparently lifted out and smuggled through the doors. “He’s kind of an iconic figure here,” Patterson said of Chumley, who was found walking on a busy road in Broad Ripple in 2003 and now lives in a waist high wooden box the size of a pick-up cab at the center. Don Nichols, resource development director for Hamilton parks, said this is the first time an animal has stolen from Cool Creek.