Obama’s fault!
Are they good eatin’?
DAMN! That’s just plain nasty-looking.I say harvest them and sell the skins. Everybody needs boots,belts and wallets,don’t they?
easy solution, declare Open Season on these snakes. Plenty of ‘Glades type folks and good ole boys around these parts that would love to git themselves some of these!
The ballot was too complicated to fill out, so they hit the road.
So you post a pic of an Anaconda with a link to a video about a Burmese Python. Mmmkay....
Where’s the photo of the alligator and python that killed each other?
Sheesh people, just make cowboy boots out of them. Problem solved.
Maybe they’ll eat Carpetbaggers!
Mrs. Taxman and I camped for a week in Flamingo campground this past March. I went snake hunting. Just kidding, but I was on the lookout for those bad boys — didn’t see any.
HST, in conversations with various people in the Everglades NP, including Park Rangers, they admit they are a problem, but there seems to be no serious attempt to eliminate them.
In fact, they do not allow firearms in the Everglades — even the tour boat captains cannot carry a shotgun to whack one of these snakes when they see them (and they do see them, FRom time to time).
What they have to do is tell a Ranger where they saw the snake and then the Ranger will go out and attempt to capture the snake — they can’t killem either!
Oddly enough, just before our trip, I saw a short piece on the news about South Florida communities giving classes to water meter, gas meter and post office workers about capturing these snakes. You will never convince me to try to capture a 20 foot snake!
One man I talked to, a long-time volunteer in the Park, made the best suggestion I have heard — start selling Python meat in restaurants and grocery stores. IOW, create a market for the meat, issue hunting licenses, and very shortly thereafter there will be a shortage of Python meat. Makes sense to me!
FRankly, if I ever see one of the damn things, it is dead, right now! CCW works on snakes as well as other varmits!