This was no high-speed chase.
Diablo, a venerable 115-year-old desert tortoise, was returned to his home in a retirement community (for humans) in New Mexico on Friday, after going missing for a week, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
The geriatric reptile had somehow found himself in the possession of some local kids, who sold him to a family in a nearby park. The family returned the shell-shocked tortoise to Manzano del Sol Village, after they saw a news report on his disappearance.
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Millie Tjeltweed, Diablo’s owner, said her “knees went weak” when she was reunited with her beloved pet.
Diablo’s companion, a 91-year-old female tortoise named Delilah, didn’t comment.
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