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Roadside mower kills 16-foot python in Vero Beach
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | December 21, 2007 | Elliott Jones

Posted on 12/24/2007 7:49:43 PM PST by george76

For the second time in two years, a 16-foot python has been found in the wild west of Vero Beach -- this time killed by a large roadside bush mower on a canal bank along 58th Avenue.

On Friday, Jesse Parker was mowing for the county along a large canal south of 12th Street and hit what he thought was bricks.

"When I backed up, a head popped up. It was huge," ...

"It is lucky this happened," Vero Beach Animal Control Officer Bruce Dangerfield said Monday. He said the snake could have grown 25- to 30-feet long.

Though pythons are constrictors capable of killing humans...

This is the 20th large python or boa Dangerfield has found in the past decade in Indian River County.

Ilka Daniel, with the Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County, suggests people with large snakes should contact the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission or the Humane Society about what to do with them, rather than dump them in the wild.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: burmese; burmesepython; python; verobeach

1 posted on 12/24/2007 7:49:45 PM PST by george76
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To: gonzo; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

16-foot python has been found in the wild west of Vero Beach


2 posted on 12/24/2007 7:51:47 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
Is he going to be charged with murder?

Or at least vehicular manslaughter....errr.....snakeslaughter.

3 posted on 12/24/2007 7:51:59 PM PST by Texas Eagle (Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
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To: george76

Monty! Monty! Monty where are you!


4 posted on 12/24/2007 7:53:26 PM PST by reg45
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To: george76

Mmmmmm. Python. Tastes like chicken!


5 posted on 12/24/2007 7:53:41 PM PST by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: george76

Let’s see now: two snakeskin handbags, three pairs of snakeskin boots, one snakeskin wallet ....


6 posted on 12/24/2007 7:56:17 PM PST by reg45
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To: george76
Let me tell ya.....there's a thrill a minute living in Florida.

Leni

7 posted on 12/24/2007 7:56:22 PM PST by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !!!)
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To: george76; abb

Mmmm ... python - it’s what’s fer dinner ................ FRegards


8 posted on 12/24/2007 7:58:48 PM PST by gonzo (OK! You got it - I'm here! What are ya gonna use yer other two wishes for? ...)
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To: george76

I live here in Vero and unless I’ve had too much nog this happened a couple of weeks ago, but I can’t find a link.


9 posted on 12/24/2007 8:05:20 PM PST by synbad600
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To: gonzo

Python, the other white meat.


10 posted on 12/24/2007 8:06:07 PM PST by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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To: gonzo

Got milk?


11 posted on 12/24/2007 8:08:17 PM PST by synbad600
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To: synbad600

Got antivenom


12 posted on 12/24/2007 8:42:24 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: george76
Sixteen foot long pythons.

Yet another reason not to attend Embry-Riddle.

13 posted on 12/24/2007 9:22:55 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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This comment on the source said 12/13

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Must really be a slow news day. This happened on last week - as in 12/13. “


14 posted on 12/24/2007 9:33:05 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Rudy,Romney,McCain, Huckabee will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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To: Blue Highway
For a python?

I’d say a dry white wine, new potato's and a little salt.

15 posted on 12/25/2007 8:33:38 AM PST by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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To: Blue Highway
Funny but....

You don't need anti-venom for a non-poisonous snake that kills by suffocating its prey. You need muscle paralyzer. ;-)

16 posted on 02/27/2008 6:46:59 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: george76
Speaking of pythons..... here's one that swallowed and will be pooping out the family Chihuahua in a few days.

Python Eats Australian Family Dog

17 posted on 02/27/2008 6:48:32 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: PeteB570

Fava Beans would be nice too, just no Chanti, as it is too acidic to go with Python.


18 posted on 02/27/2008 6:51:19 AM PST by Clemenza (I live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Wrecks)
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