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Legend has it that snakes are not like indian underwear! They will NOT creep up on you.

IMO, that is an old tale, if the snake is hungry and you are warm; NOT GOOD!

1 posted on 08/20/2025 9:52:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Asylum seeker.


2 posted on 08/20/2025 9:57:28 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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> Massive python wrangled near school in South Carolina <

What a disappointment. From the title I thought they were talking about John Cleese.


3 posted on 08/20/2025 9:57:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

While deployed on MIA-POW recovery missions in 1992 and 1993 to Cambodia, one of our crew chiefs managed to capture and kill a 16 foot Burmese python which he skinned, cooked (yum, there were 110 of us on that particular mission and probably 60 tried the snake), then took the skin into Thailand where he traded it for a pair of Python-skin boots.

One of these days I’ll make stills from the video I shot of that and many other things.


4 posted on 08/20/2025 9:58:38 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: Salamander

Look, they even put it in a handy storage container for you.

Why did the python cross the road?

“These boots were made for walkin’..” ♫


5 posted on 08/20/2025 10:02:47 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I wish Florida had passed a law yeses ago outlawing the sale of snakes not indigenous to Florida. Now we have a python problem we’ll never get rid of...


6 posted on 08/20/2025 10:02:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Superman joined ICE: - - Lex Luthor drinks Bud light, drives a Jaguar and is a registered democrat)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
"...this type of snake is not native to the area."

It will be soon - and not b/c of this pet snake, but b/c the pythons will adapt and move up to slightly colder temperatures.

The only thing they can't stand is sub freezing temperatures. I'd bet that their tolerance for that is increasing just a little bit each year.

A wildlife ranger guy/neighbor tells me the only thing that cures this is sub 32 degrees in Miami for almost a week solid. We may be waiting for that for a long time.

7 posted on 08/20/2025 10:05:41 AM PDT by FLNittany
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Best to conduct a search and if there are any left, kill them all.


8 posted on 08/20/2025 10:12:27 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
My son laughed at me when I told him I carry with snake shot when I walk my wife's dog here in SC.

But ima need a bigger caliber and more capacity.

11 posted on 08/20/2025 10:52:10 AM PDT by onona
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Several missing children reported in local neighborhoods?
13 posted on 08/20/2025 12:30:54 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

One of my favorite songs:

Ray Wylie Hubbard “Snake Farm”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89VR_lZehw4


14 posted on 08/20/2025 12:32:37 PM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
[Massive python wrangled near school in South Carolina]


17 posted on 08/20/2025 2:23:56 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’m a biologist and that’s a male. Or one really pissed off female.


18 posted on 08/20/2025 2:31:18 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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