Posted on 12/06/2017 10:14:27 PM PST by cba123
Three hunters caught a 17-foot, 132-pound Burmese python in the Florida Everglades in southern Miami-Dade, a record for the program aimed at curbing the proliferation of the non-native species, according to media reports.
The giant snake was caught Friday at Big Cypress National Preserve, according to NBC 6 Miami.
“That snake could pretty much kill any full-grown man,” said one of the hunters who caught the python, Jason Leon, to NBC 6. “If that snake was alive right now, it would probably take like three of us to be able to control that snake.”
It’s so far the largest snake to be caught under the South Florida Water Management District’s python elimination program.
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It is my understanding that Florida will not allow firearms to be used to kill these snakes, which is amazing to me.
Apparently the high up officials don’t actually want to get rid of the snakes.
Maybe the fear is that they are next!
Thanks.
Interesting.
:)
In that case the hunter broke the law, because the article says he shot it (the snake, not the law).
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