Time magazine reported this week the story of a pet tortoise injured in a slum shoot-out in Rio de Janeiro. The 20-year-old pet caught a bullet in its shell paralysing its hind legs. As if that wasn’t bad enough the vet had a bright idea of how to save the tortoise, the wheels from a tv stand. You know, the kind that require a sledgehammer to install, usually at a strange angle, roll like a hopeless shopping trolley before falling off at the least opportune moment. Who could blame the little fella if he was to head back to the slum and ask them to finish him off.