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1st day of Fla. hunt nets nearly 10-foot python
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| BRIAN SKOLOFF
Posted on 07/17/2009 5:27:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A program to eradicate invasive pythons from Florida's Everglades began Friday with a slithering success: Trappers caught a nearly 10-footer within about an hour of setting out, a shock to even the experts.
"It surprised us," said Shawn Heflick, a herpetologist who helped capture the snake Friday. "If you would have told me yesterday I was going to go out there today and that quickly find one, I would have called you a liar."
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TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: python; wildlife
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:28:21 PM PDT
by
madison10
(Prayer is what is remains when we run out of options...when it should have been the first choice.)
To: JoeProBono
Get an axe. That’s some mighty big vermin. (And I like snakes.)
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:29:36 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: madison10
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:29:56 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
That is a big &*^%$& snake!
The trapper got it? The fellow in the picture looks like a FL fish & wildlife officer.
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:31:46 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:31:53 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
“After measuring the snake and collecting data, the trappers severed its brain from its spinal column, he said.”
Does that mean they cut its head off?
parsy, the illiterate
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:32:32 PM PDT
by
parsifal
("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
To: JoeProBono
The teeth on that sucker....! Whole rabbits could go down THAT hole.
(Looks like an ObeyMeCare Plan to me)
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:33:16 PM PDT
by
madison10
(Prayer is what is remains when we run out of options...when it should have been the first choice.)
To: Frantzie
“One of the experts spotted it slithering from a dense cover area. Heflick, along with another trapper, “jumped on it and hauled it out.”
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:33:45 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
I have to ask...
How did he do that?
To: JoeProBono
One down and 149,999 to go.
To: Graybeard58
Can you say ‘Good Eats’? ... Are ya reading, Alton, we got a new entry for your menu.
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:35:34 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: JoeProBono
Another government money pit, it's far too late to stop the invasion now.
To: Protect the Bill of Rights
"One down, 99,999 to go," Nelson said Friday after hearing of the python capture.
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:37:49 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Gator vs. Python: It's a draw, both dead.
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:39:15 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: JoeProBono
To: JoeProBono
Sounds a lot like our illegal alien problem
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:45:07 PM PDT
by
Dacula
(Evil succeeds when good men do nothing. Lets do something.)
To: JoeProBono
jumped on it and hauled it out.I was walking along the other day and saw a foot long garter snake on the road. So I pinned the head and released the snake in the bushes before someone would run over it...
I felt pretty brave until I saw this thread... (mumbling... shaking head).
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:45:14 PM PDT
by
John123
(Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
To: Travis McGee
Is that picture real? I can’t see it too well but it looks like the python tried to swallow the gator and blew up...
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posted on
07/17/2009 5:49:51 PM PDT
by
John123
(Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
To: JoeProBono
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