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Fat python gets caught after eating turkey
Quad City Times (Iowa) ^
| Oct 13, 2005
Posted on 10/14/2005 2:35:18 PM PDT by proud_yank
MIAMI — Once again, a python has been done in by its dinner.
After one python exploded after trying to eat an alligator, a 10-foot African rock python was apparently trapped by the turkey it ate at a nursery. The snake couldn’t slither back through a fence to digest the bird.
Nursery owner Felix Azquz, 77, noticed one turkey was missing early Monday. Then he saw the bulging snake.
“It scared me,” Azquz said. “I ran outside to call the police.”
The snake will be taken to a zoo, said Capt. Al Cruz of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue antivenin unit.
Earlier this month, a 13-foot python burst as it tried to swallow a 6-foot American alligator in Everglades National Park.
TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: everglades; florida; pets; python; snakes; turkey
Pretty funny, though not good for people to get pets like these and let them go when they get big!
To: proud_yank
Hmmm-
A turkey sub sounds good right about now.
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posted on
10/14/2005 2:36:51 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred")
To: proud_yank
That’s sort of how they used to catch and kill those black snakes that used to go in the chicken pen and eat eggs. You’d drill holes in the wood that divides the nest boxes and put one of those ceramic or stone “eggs” in each box.
Snake would come in at night (after you collected the real eggs) and eat the egg. He can’t break it. Then he’d crawl through a hole into the next box and eat another. Stuck. Chop em with a machete to get your fake eggs back.
We used to get four or five a year like that.
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posted on
10/14/2005 2:42:48 PM PDT
by
Who dat?
To: Who dat?
Really? Were the eggs warm, or the chickens on top of them? I used to have a pet boa, and that is how they see their food, is from the heat it radiates in addition to the smell. Interesting!
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posted on
10/14/2005 2:59:25 PM PDT
by
proud_yank
(Socialism is economic oppression)
To: proud_yank
So did the python kill the turkey, or did the turkey kill the python? ;) ;) ;)
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posted on
10/14/2005 3:28:11 PM PDT
by
mosquewatch.com
(Politically incorrect all the time and proud.)
To: proud_yank
Replace "turkey" with "alligator" (Rednecks should limit our time online.......) D'oh!
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posted on
10/14/2005 3:29:41 PM PDT
by
mosquewatch.com
(Politically incorrect all the time and proud.)
To: mosquewatch.com; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
So did the python kill the turkey, or did the turkey kill the python? ;) ;) ;) Sigmund Frued killed them.
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posted on
10/14/2005 3:37:33 PM PDT
by
SeeRushToldU_So
(It is hotter than two rats screwing in a wool sock in GA.)
To: SeeRushToldU_So
Freud? Was the Python in a long dark tunnel?
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posted on
10/14/2005 3:39:29 PM PDT
by
WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
(Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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posted on
10/14/2005 3:41:58 PM PDT
by
SeeRushToldU_So
(It is hotter than two rats screwing in a wool sock in GA.)
To: proud_yank
Earlier this month, a 13-foot python burst as it tried to swallow a 6-foot American alligator in Everglades National Park. I'd have liked to see that on video.
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posted on
10/14/2005 3:59:30 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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