Limbaugh Wants to Shine Lights on Sea Turtles
As you would expect, that's not a good thing. Sea turtles don't like lights
By TODD WRIGHT
Updated 7:30 AM EDT, Wed, Mar 10, 2010
If you have ever listen to Rush Limbaugh, it would come as no surprise that he doesn't like a lot of things.
But you'd have to be a pretty cold-blooded S.O.B. not to like sea turtles. Limbaugh says: guilty as charged.
The shock jock and political loud mouth is taking time away from his busy schedule bashing Democrats to lob bombs at endangered sea turtles that arrive on South Florida beaches near his Palm Beach home.
Limbaugh doesn't like that he has to cut his back porch lights off so the sea turtles can nest and the hatchlings can safely return to the ocean. So he is taking out full page ads in the Palm Beach Post and other local papers to express his displeasure.
As if a syndicated radio wasn't enough of an audience.
“Imagine if you were told all your street lights had to be off for 8 months to protect the mating habits of geckos and feral cats, or whatever animal,” Limbaugh reportedly wrote to Page 2 Live, a Palm Beach blog.
The Town of Palm Beach requires its residents to turn off their outdoor lights from March 1 to Oct. 31, which is the turtles' nesting season. Scientists believe the lights confuse the large sea reptiles because they mistake them for the moon, which the animal uses to find its way to the beach and back to the ocean.
Too bad, so sad, said Limbaugh, who lives on the beach.
“I love landscape lighting,” he said.
Good thing turtles don't have ears because they have been getting the business on Limbaugh's talk show.
Limbaugh's outbursts have been known to change politicos, but Palm Beach officials said they don't plan on changing the area's lights out rule anytime soon.
First Published: Mar 9, 2010 8:13 PM EDT
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