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When Hunting Pythons, It Helps to Dance Like a Monkey—and Carry a Sledgehammer
WSJ ^ | 21 Apr 2017 | Arian Campo-Flores

Posted on 04/22/2017 9:55:03 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The agency pays $8.10 an hour, $50 per python—must be delivered dead—and $25 for each foot over four.

There are dangers at either end: strikes from its head and defensive sprays from its tail of musk and excrement. “They’ll fling white blobs of poop everywhere,” Mr. Rahill said.

Mr. Hill prefers a simpler snake-subjugation tactic: He grabs his Winchester 12-gauge shotgun and fires at the python’s head. “A head shot is considered a humane way” to kill a snake, said Mr. Hill, who said he has been involved in capturing more than 700 pythons.

Novice hunters often don’t realize how difficult it is to pursue pythons, he said. “Some people think pythons are waiting on levees with signs saying, ‘Welcome to Florida.’ ”

Days later, farther north, he was tramping through brush and glimpsed a python pattern on a mound, he said. He lunged at it, grabbed at the snake midbody and pulled it into the open. The snake tried to strike him several times before he subdued and bagged it.

The 7-footer yielded a $125 bonus. “I earned that snake,” he said.

The snake earned a swift end dealt by Mr. Rahill’s sledgehammer.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: everglades; python; wildlife
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I say we lure them with their own kind. Send politicians into the everglades with no weapons but with GPS markers so we can find the snake after it devours them.

1 posted on 04/22/2017 9:55:03 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

There are far more progressives than politicians...


2 posted on 04/22/2017 9:59:32 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
LOL! Works For Me!
However The Pythons may not like politicians.....
Too much crap to swallow doncha know.....
3 posted on 04/22/2017 10:02:42 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: DUMBGRUNT

You would make a poor python eat a politician?

Anyhow, the python would not devour a politician - professional courtesy.


4 posted on 04/22/2017 10:03:31 AM PDT by oldbill (ure wa)
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To: logi_cal869

Mostly, same mother, different brother.


5 posted on 04/22/2017 10:05:31 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: oldbill

Anyhow, the python would not devour a politician - professional courtesy.

Until someone gets hungry.


6 posted on 04/22/2017 10:06:42 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Who said politicians are not useful?


7 posted on 04/22/2017 10:16:31 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Who said pythons are not useful?


8 posted on 04/22/2017 10:22:12 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Fiddlstix

Speaking of politicians, Is it still legal to sell baby pythons in Florida?! How’s about a law to ban the import of baby pythons into the USA. And shut down the pet stores that continue to sell baby pythons.


9 posted on 04/22/2017 10:22:16 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Log in required. Googled the title and login still required.


10 posted on 04/22/2017 10:24:15 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The first one I saw in the wild in FL was in 1977.


11 posted on 04/22/2017 10:29:20 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Dance like a monkey” Isn’t that racist?


12 posted on 04/22/2017 10:32:23 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic woo woo whut?
13 posted on 04/22/2017 10:38:33 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: Rebelbase

The word down in the gutter is, WSJ changed the pay wall.

There is an app for Chrome that is alleged to work.


14 posted on 04/22/2017 11:49:51 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

A bit different than walk softly and carry a big stick.


15 posted on 04/22/2017 12:23:23 PM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Q. What’s the difference between a dead politician and a dead python, lying in the road?

A. The python has skid marks in front of it.


16 posted on 04/22/2017 12:23:43 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Are you sure that the politician won’t devour the python? Think Nancy Pelosi.


17 posted on 04/22/2017 2:50:25 PM PDT by submarinerswife (Allahu FUBAR)
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To: submarinerswife

Only one way to find out.


18 posted on 04/22/2017 3:24:59 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If I hunted Pythons, I would carry a gun and knife.


19 posted on 04/22/2017 3:34:31 PM PDT by sport
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To: sport

If I hunted Pythons, I would carry a gun and knife.

Pythons, very dangerous!
They will creep up on you, just like indian underwear.

And look at the size of them!


20 posted on 04/22/2017 5:04:56 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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