Giant Pythons Invade Florida

Discovery ^ | May 16, 2008 | AFP

[Schwaeky]

just don’t get on any plane in south florida anytime soon...

[matthew fuller]

"Highly adaptable, pythons prey on cats,"

Can't be all bad!

[restornu]

How hateful...

Not if you love Cats!

[Farmer Dean]

Exactly,get them on the menu and the problem is solved.

[Ditter]

OMG! I didn’t know they had teeth, I thought they just squeezed their prey to death and then they ate it. They swallow their prey alive and it dies inside the snake. How absolutely horrible!

I HATE SNAKES! ALL SNAKES!!!!!!!

[Puddleglum]

Let them battle the alligators for dominion of the swamps. Cool but scary story.

[Puddleglum]

This kid loves his python. His parents say the snake is the child's guardian. I really hope the little guy doesn't come up missing.

Next photo - just the python, with a big lump in the middle.

[libstripper]

btw, a python "dresses out" at about 70% of live weight. = CHEAP PROTEIN!

That's really a good yield. Every so often I make a chicken/macaroni salad. The last two times I've done it, I've weighed the boned, skinned chicken and been surprised to see it come out to only about 33% of the weight of the raw, undressed chicken. Add in the weight of the skin for those of us who like to eat the skin, and the yield's still only a little under 40% of raw weight.

[Ditter]

I was thinking about that.

Wife to husband: “Where’s Johnnie? Did you feed the snake like I told you? Have you seen Johnnie?”

[csvset]

This python swallowed a sheep.

[Dusty Road]

“I suggest introducing Cajuns!”

Sine you fired the first shot I’ll fire the second.

All you have to do to eliminate the snakes, is tell all my Cajun buddies, there's only a one week season, the limit's one and they taste like Mud Bug's. Just don't be surprised if they violate the bag limit!

[uglybiker]

Dey are a wonderment! I gar-awn-tee!

AAAIIIIIEEEEE!!!

[xJones]

otoh, where would you find a python BIG enough to swallow FAT AL.

You may be on to something: Ol' Fat Albert could probably swallow any Burmese python, and that's how we'll get rid of them!

[Jeff Chandler]

His parents say the snake is the child's guardian. I really hope the little guy doesn't come up missing.

If he does it's just Natural Selection.

[Titan Magroyne]

“otoh, where would you find a python BIG enough to swallow FAT AL.”

As long as it takes care of the important part, I’m none too concerned if the python’s eyes are bigger than its stomach. ;o)

[TheLion]

Maybe, but they are very quite and stealthy.

[stand watie]

i had no idea.

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[stand watie]

TRUE!!! (FAT ALBERT is a rather large TUB of lard. ====> every time i see him on TV i want to holler : WOOOOOOOOO PIG SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEE!!!)

rotflmRao.

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[stand watie]

me either.

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