Posted on 12/06/2017 10:14:27 PM PST by cba123
Three hunters caught a 17-foot, 132-pound Burmese python in the Florida Everglades in southern Miami-Dade, a record for the program aimed at curbing the proliferation of the non-native species, according to media reports.
The giant snake was caught Friday at Big Cypress National Preserve, according to NBC 6 Miami.
“That snake could pretty much kill any full-grown man,” said one of the hunters who caught the python, Jason Leon, to NBC 6. “If that snake was alive right now, it would probably take like three of us to be able to control that snake.”
It’s so far the largest snake to be caught under the South Florida Water Management District’s python elimination program.
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They do keep getting bigger there...
Of possible interest ping
I had not heard from James Carville lately?
I have wondered why no one has invented a spiked vest for use in jungles with large snakes.
You know, I just bet there actually is such a thing, and someone might just post a pic.
Maybe.
Brilliant idea. Make federal government workers wear it too. It will keep down the sexual assaults.
Pretty much??? How about definitely...
Well I didn’t find exactly what you mentioned, but this was sort of interesting.
What happens to them if they eat some kind of cow or(gulp)a person?
Do they slooooowly crawl into the bushes and rest for about a year?
Can they even move afterwards?
Kill ‘em all. Let God sort them out.
Hillary visited Florida?
Make a couple pair of boots with that .......
A snake that big could take down a small deer or a pig, and yes, once they finish swallowing (which itself would take the better part of a day), they’ll sit wherever they ended up for the next day or so, then go find somewhere more out of the way to rest for another month or more. I don’t think any of the Florida snakes have been out there long enough to get large enough to actually eat an adult human (give it another 40 years), but that 17-footer could easily eat a child.
Some of the *really* big pythons in Asia (and probably South America) have occasionally managed to down a human, but it usually kills them. There are some photos of a similar event where a Florida python swallowed a small alligator, which stayed alive long enough to tear itself out of the snake from the inside. I think there was one giant that successfully swallowed a small man in India. The other residents of the man’s village found it and killed it.
Snakes (even tropical ones) can handle freezes, unlike most invasive tropicals. The upswing in populated areas means more heat sources, so they’ll find places to hole up until the cold snap passes. Florida is going to have a python problem for a looooong time.
Do a search on the Lambton Worm. According to legend, that’s exactly how it was defeated :)
1) You swing your arms around a lot in the jungle, so you’d gash yourself up pretty badly, and the vest would snag every vine, creeper, branch, and frond along the way.
2) Snakes aren’t very bright. In all likelihood, the snake would only realize that it had been punctured long after you had stopped breathing.
A lot of boots right there!
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