woo woo whut?
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.
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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.
There are far more progressives than politicians...
You would make a poor python eat a politician?
Anyhow, the python would not devour a politician - professional courtesy.
Mostly, same mother, different brother.
Anyhow, the python would not devour a politician - professional courtesy.
Until someone gets hungry.
Who said politicians are not useful?
Who said pythons are not useful?
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.
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The first one I saw in the wild in FL was in 1977.
“Dance like a monkey” Isn’t that racist?
woo woo whut?
The word down in the gutter is, WSJ changed the pay wall.
There is an app for Chrome that is alleged to work.
A bit different than walk softly and carry a big stick.
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.
Are you sure that the politician won’t devour the python? Think Nancy Pelosi.
Only one way to find out.
If I hunted Pythons, I would carry a gun and knife.
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!
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