Posted on 09/29/2009 5:40:53 AM PDT by Kartographer
It's been about two months since Florida issued a virtual open season on giant invasive Burmese pythons gobbling up rabbits, birds and even small alligators throughout the Everglades. Now there's another nonnative stealthy stalker that could soon be taking up residence in the region — Africa's largest snake, the rock python.
Three of these enormous constrictors that can grow to 20 feet and weigh 200 pounds have been found in the last few months in western Miami-Dade County, raising concerns that they could establish a breeding population, just like their Burmese cousins.
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You are talking about bees, right?
If you are with the Secret Service yes that’s exactly what I mean. ;-)
“In July, the state began issuing permits to volunteers willing to hunt them down”
....permits!....classic beaucracy at work...we don’t need no stinkin’ permits...start killing them on sight...and put a $200 bounty on them...those South Florida good ole boys will go to work on the problem real quick....as a matter of fact, they will come up with a better capture/kill method than Fish & Game.
Burmese Python: Large and fairly docile
Reticulated Python: Large and nasty
African Rock Python: Large and nasty
The problem will be brought under control after we see varnished python heads for sale in Florida tourist traps, with jaws open and fangs bared.
No permits, open season, kill ‘em any way you want.
As any reader of Kipling knows, it is exactly this kind of snake, in the bi-coloured variety, that was responsible for elephants having trunks. Imagine if alligators get the same treatment? Or Gov. Christ, in which case his nose would merely be inversely proportionate to his veracity.
Exactly. Put a bounty on the heads and get the kids out there for some fun like we had when I was a kid and we got 3 cents for every gopher tail.
Some of the best Sunday afternoons I spent with my Dad were driving the gravel roads with the 22’s chipping away at the gopher population.
I believe they taste like chicken and are especially yummy in a Szechuan sauce over rice.
I read somewhere that hybrid snakes (such as Burmese/African mixes?) grow extra big and mean. Great. Just great.
Know wonder Letterman was uncomfortable it must have been like looking into a mirror for him!
How about our Kremlin/Kenyan Konstrictor. Squeezing the life out of our country
Could have just spewed coffee all over my keyboard had I not already swallowed before watching that!
I was going to post that.
Poor thing. Hope it got a decent burial.
God’ll get you fer that.
};^)
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