Posted on 10/28/2011 7:08:49 PM PDT by driftdiver
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK — Water management contractors working in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a giant Burmese python that had just consumed an adult deer.
Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, says workers found the nearly 16-foot-long snake on Thursday.
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Maybe just a bit of indigestion?
some dipshit thought it would be cool to keep it as a pet and then let it loose.
Thats big enough to take a small person.
wonder how long before we hear about the snake that et the baby.
the boa at yer babie
If it happens I hope the baby belongs to the slobbering idiot who turned this predator loose in the benign American ecosystem.
That snake had been footloose and fancy free to attain that kind of size.
snork
The PBS “Nature” series just did a program about the Florida Python Snake situation. Its BEYOND out of control!
It probably started out as some druggie's little neck-python. Constrictors were all the rage among a certain segment (in New York, the dudes would strut along the streets with bling, babes [euphemism] and the handy neck-boa) and then I guess it got too hard to send out the babes [euphemism] to buy the mice for the neck-boa. So they'd drop it off anywhere handy.
In New York, these things generally died in the winter, but in Florida, they're doing just fine, thank you.
“some dipshit thought it would be cool to keep it as a pet and then let it loose”
The first large, “wild” python I ever saw in Dade Co. was 35 years ago. These snakes are the descendants of dipshit owners long ago.
But it’s cool! As long as it doesn’t eat me. America, land of the tattooed, pierced freaks. It’s our right to be a hazard to everyone and everything!
State efforts to control the spread will never be successful. The only way to eradicate these bastards is to put a bounty on them and let the public do the job.
As soon as somebody releases some dingos.
Easy fix, have a bounty, year around no limit hunt. Pay extra for baby snakes. Than sell snake skin boots etc... Man vs Food snake on a stick episode from glades. Species eradicated from glades in a few years.
Yes, I saw the PBS special on pythons too. Thousands of them there. They’ll kill off every other animal in the glades, more’s the pity.
Very creative solution, OG, could work. You going to lead the charge?
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