A turtle is crossing the road when he’s mugged by two snails. When the police show up, they ask him what happened. The shaken turtle replies, “I don’t know. It all happened so fast.”
The Mugging Turtle
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The humor comes from the unexpected contrast between the typically slow pace of a turtle and snails, and the turtle's statement that things happened too fast. It plays on the stereotype of slow-moving snails to create a funny scenario, as mugging by snails would, under normal circumstances, be anything but quick.