Check out this snake they found wrapped around the axle of a Cube Point fire truck in the Philippines when I lived there as a kid:
Having said that, I agree that these Burmese pythons need to be eradicated entirely. They are a highly destructive NON-NATIVE snake that negatively impacts the native fauna.
This kind of eradication effort may seem superficially cruel, but it's necessary.
And they’ve been mostly bought - and released - by thugs and gang bangers who want ten seconds of impressing their so called friends but have no interest beyond that.
Check out this snake they found wrapped around the axle of a Cube Point fire truck in the Philippines when I lived there as a kid:
They found a enormous King Cobra curled up in the bottom floor of my next door neighbor’s house.
We were waiting for the school bus, and someone ran over and said there was a big snake in this guys house. We all ran up, and bottom floor of those houses was half carport with screens and clear plastic around the lower floor.
There, curled up in a huge coil in the corner was a great black snake, we all peered at it until someone came by and shooed us all away. When we got on the bus, we saw a fire truck and a regular truck drive up to the kid’s house...
I find snakes interesting, but not as pets. I won’t kill them unless I have to.
I wish I could say the same about spiders, though. If they are outside, I don’t mess with them and find them interesting.
If I find one in my house, I will usually kill them. Not proud of it, but can’t help it. And if they crawl on me, it is a certain fight to their death. I can’t take that.
Nothing against them, and it isn’t driven by sadism, but I had a bad encounter in a drain pipe under a road with a spider as a kid. If I knew there was one in the room with me, I wouldn’t be able to do much else.
Well, it wasn’t really a spider I had an encounter with, it was a daddy long-legs, and to this seven year old kid, that is about the scariest thing there is.
I was about seven, and I was trying to crawl through a drain pipe that went under a road. You could see the daylight on the other side, and I don’t know why it seemed like such a good idea, but I was going to crawl right through and come out the other side. Well, as I went in, it got narrower and narrower, to the point I couldn’t go any further, so I began trying to back out.
I tried to look over my shoulder and yell to my brother I was coming back, but as I looked back, there was a big bundle of cobwebs and leaves stuck to my shoulder, with a big daddy long-legs sitting right in it. I completely went berserk in this narrow space, and might have beaten myself to death against the pipe walls, but my brother who was a year older than me crawled in, grabbed my ankles, and dragged me out.
When I exited that pipe, I shot to my feet, running full speed down the street, and pirouetting in the air as I slapped at that mess on my shoulders. But no matter how much I slapped and wiped, every time I looked, that daddy long-legs was still there. I finally ripped off my coat and disappeared down the street with my brother running after me. We both laugh about it now, but I still get a little nutty for a second when one crawls on me.
Brother lives down there says they’ve taken over the swamps areas and killed many of the native animals.....Lots were let loose by people that bought them for pets.