Apparently, our legislators have been spending their time debating the need for an official state reptile:
The Eastern Box Turtle slogged its merry way through the General Assembly this year only to die a disrespectful death in the House chamber.
Del. Frank D. Hargrove Sr., R-Hanover, was confounded by the notion of enshrining a species as the state reptile that at the first indication of fear retreats into its shell.
“I don’t know why in the world we need a state reptile,” he said on the House floor yesterday before the measure died 28-69.
At the request of a constituent from Vienna, Sen. Chap Petersen, D-Fairfax City, proposed making the box turtle, which lives in the wooded swamps and grassy fields of Virginia and throughout the eastern United States, the state reptile.
The House preferred to make it road kill.
Why even waste time on crap like this ?
