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1st day of Fla. hunt nets nearly 10-foot python
hostednews ^ | 3 hours ago | 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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1 posted on 07/17/2009 5:27:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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Ewwww.....


2 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.)
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To: JoeProBono

Get an axe. That’s some mighty big vermin. (And I like snakes.)


3 posted on 07/17/2009 5:29:36 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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4 posted on 07/17/2009 5:29:56 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

That is a big &*^%$& snake!

The trapper got it? The fellow in the picture looks like a FL fish & wildlife officer.


5 posted on 07/17/2009 5:31:46 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: Travis McGee

6 posted on 07/17/2009 5:31:53 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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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


7 posted on 07/17/2009 5:32:32 PM PDT by parsifal ("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
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To: JoeProBono

The teeth on that sucker....! Whole rabbits could go down THAT hole.

(Looks like an ObeyMeCare Plan to me)


8 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.)
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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.”


9 posted on 07/17/2009 5:33:45 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

I have to ask...
How did he do that?


10 posted on 07/17/2009 5:34:08 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (I piddy da foo if Jim Thompson zots you!)
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To: JoeProBono

One down and 149,999 to go.


11 posted on 07/17/2009 5:34:41 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: Graybeard58

Can you say ‘Good Eats’? ... Are ya reading, Alton, we got a new entry for your menu.


12 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.)
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To: JoeProBono
Burmese python Pictures, Images and Photos

Another government money pit, it's far too late to stop the invasion now.

13 posted on 07/17/2009 5:36:48 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
"One down, 99,999 to go," Nelson said Friday after hearing of the python capture.


14 posted on 07/17/2009 5:37:49 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Gator vs. Python: It's a draw, both dead.


15 posted on 07/17/2009 5:39:15 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: JoeProBono

That’s just nasty :-)


16 posted on 07/17/2009 5:42:04 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (I piddy da foo if Jim Thompson zots you!)
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To: JoeProBono

Sounds a lot like our illegal alien problem


17 posted on 07/17/2009 5:45:07 PM PDT by Dacula (Evil succeeds when good men do nothing. Lets do something.)
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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).

18 posted on 07/17/2009 5:45:14 PM PDT by John123 (Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
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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...


19 posted on 07/17/2009 5:49:51 PM PDT by John123 (Turn on your teleprompter Obama and read your lips... "No New Taxes!!")
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To: JoeProBono

Snakes alive !!!


20 posted on 07/17/2009 5:52:19 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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