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400-pound 'monster' python seized in Florida
Palm Beach Post Wire Services ^
| September 12, 2009
Posted on 09/12/2009 5:12:02 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
APOPKA — Wildlife officials are putting the squeeze on owners of "monster" Burmese pythons.
On Friday, Delilah, an 18-foot-long, 400-plus-pound python who fed on rabbits in an Apopka-area backyard, was seized.
Earlier in the week, officials, acting on an anonymous tip, uncovered 11-foot-long male Burmese python, dwarfed by its female companion, a 17-foot behemoth weighing more than 150 pounds, at a Lakeland home. The owner did not have a permit and is being charged with two misdemeanors.
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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: python; wildlife
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
What is it with these sick bastards who insist on having massive reptiles for pets?
To: Senator Goldwater
Some guys just want to have the biggest python on the block...
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:14:25 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(Party like it's 1776!)
To: Senator Goldwater
What is it with these sick bastards who insist on having massive reptiles for pets? I dunno. They would seem useful in getting rid of the rat problem, as in democRATs.
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:14:45 PM PDT
by
kromike
To: Senator Goldwater
Hmmmm. I just had an idea of what we could do with all the pit bulls around the U.S,
5
posted on
09/12/2009 5:15:00 PM PDT
by
TruthBeforeAll
(Honesty is like a knife... Used without love, it can do a lot of harm.)
To: Senator Goldwater
Better than turning them loose
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:16:43 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
To: Senator Goldwater
You sure it is not Rep. Nadler?
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:17:54 PM PDT
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: Senator Goldwater
They can’t relate to sentient beings.
;-)
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:22:43 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:23:53 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Where's this tagline thing everyone keeps talking about?)
To: sourcery
I’m a realist, I understand it’s the 21st century and you’ve probably had premarital relations with my daughter. But under our roof it’s my way or the long island express way. Is that understood? Good. Keep your snake in its cage for 72 hours.
Robert De Niro
‘meet the parents’
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:24:48 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
I live in Central Fl - this was on our local news last night and they reported that the neighbors used to let their kids PLAY with this snake- they’d get on its back and ride it like a horse.
Not making it up.
Words fail.
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:26:50 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: UCANSEE2
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:34:04 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
APOPKA? I’ve been trying to get a job there...
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:37:19 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 234 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: savedbygrace
That's what I was thinking. Are they good eatin'?
If so...that's a lot of steak!
To: SE Mom
they reported that the neighbors used to let their kids PLAY with this snakeI'm pretty sure if the snake isn't hungry... then it would be OK to touch... but the question is... how do you know until it is too late?
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:37:39 PM PDT
by
John123
(If Teddy was the lion of the senate... then we were the prey.)
To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; Senator Goldwater
"She is as docile as can be. She's as happy as can be." How do you know when a snake is happy?
After a snake has a meal it finds a place to sleep, that makes it docile.
Sorry to any who have reptiles as pets but I do not believe that reptiles can be domesticated. I do not believe that they have the proper brain development to make it possible. They are creatures of pure instinct.
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:42:55 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(Your message here.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
What makes you think I wasn’t quoting the snake?
;-)
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:43:56 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
To: savedbygrace
Heheh...this lunch bites back!
To: Senator Goldwater
Perhaps they are trying to make up for something else that is undersized.
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:51:57 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: sourcery
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posted on
09/12/2009 5:53:42 PM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(I'm as Mad as Hell, and I'm Not Gonna Take This Anymore!)
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