Florida set to declare open season on pythons - 150,000 snakes "out of control" and spreading.

.ksn.com ^ | 7 13 09

[dennisw]

MIAMI, Florida (NBC) -- Florida is set to declare open season on pythons.

Biologists have officially declared the south Florida python population of more than 150,000 snakes "out of control" and spreading.

The snakes are squeezing out native predators, and that has many worried.

Florida had considered everything from using volunteers to trap them to training beagles to sniff them out.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Chairman Rodney Barreto wants action.

"We're developing a plan immediately, that we will roll out, that we will allow people who are trained, supervised by us, to go out and hunt pythons and kill them," he said.

The plan would open 750,000 acres of state land to python hunters with permits.

They would be paid a small bounty for each snake.

The problem is state land is closely intertwined with federal land throughout The Everglades, and Everglades National Park where the pythons got their start.

Hunting isn't allowed there, and the borders between state and federal land often aren't marked.

National Park officials vow to use every non-lethal idea to get rid of pythons instead.

[dennisw]

I would also ban alligator hunting for a few years so they can eat the wounded pythons that slither away. Is there such a thing as python cowboy boots?

[WayneS]

Whacking Day!

[John123]

is set to declare open season on pythons.

Let us know when it is "open season" for snakes in Washington D.C.

[WayneS]

Is there such a thing as python cowboy boots?

Yes. They're not as tough as elephant, though.

[Dr. Ursus]

What does a python call a sniffing beagle-LUNCH!

[Frantzie]

Give Charlene Crist a machete and put her to work. She can work on her suntan at the same time.

After she is done she can go after the iguanas and illegal alien Brazilians.

[caver]

“National Park officials vow to use every non-lethal idea to get rid of pythons instead.”

How are they going to get rid of them without using lethal methods?

[clamper1797]

Let us know when it is "open season" for snakes in Washington D.C.

That is one large nest of vipers

[In veno, veritas]

I think this topic has missed the real questions, and they are “Are pythons tasty?” and “How are they best cooked?”

[dennisw]

A radio report also said that Florida would consider training people how to hunt down these critters. Pythons are decimating the indigenous wildlife in the Everglades. It’s a well designed killing machine like in the Alien movies

The entire everglades will turn into the world’s largest snake pit. Florida finally figured out it is either THEM or US!

[John123]

Let us know when it is "open season" for snakes in Washington D.C.

Open letter to the Secret Service...

Don't have a cow man... it is a joke!

Signed... John

[Quix]

Let us know when it is “open season” for snakes in Washington D.C.

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Uhhhhhhhh . . . I refuse to comment . . . on the grounds that . . .

uhhhhhhhh . . .

folks might think I’d changed professions to cheer leader.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

How are they going to get rid of them without using lethal methods?

They plan to destroy their desire to procreate by showing them a pic of Helen Thomas.

[Frantzie]

Hopefully it wiull be open season on RINOs in FL - Mel Martinez, Crist, etc.

Then on morons goober idiots - Bill Nelson.

Bill “we need to go to outer space and give NASA another $100 billion” Nelson. Nelson has about 4 more IQ points than Carl in Slingblade.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“National Park officials vow to use every non-lethal idea to get rid of pythons instead.”

Make sure you read them their Miranda warnings. Then find a country that will accept them. Maybe just release them in Cuba.

[chemicalman]

Do they taste like chicken?

[In veno, veritas]

By a sit-in and major leaflet campaign.

[Quix]

They’ll sell them to

Senators and House members and White House staffers

who’ll fill their bedrooms with them as their brothers and sisters.

[Joe 6-pack]

Just hire 20 Cajuns and tell them that they’re out of season.