The joke up here is to earnestly ask the Geordies if they heard about the big smash on the A1 by Washington?
Yeah, big lorry full of terrapins crashed and the cargo went everywhere.
It was turtle chaos.*
*The punchline works best with a Geordie accent, in my esteemed opinion :)
A van full of tortoises crashed into a lorry carrying terrapins round here..
It was a turtle disaster