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Enormous python killed in Florida is a state record
Grind TV ^
| May 20, 2013
| Pete Thomas
Posted on 05/20/2013 6:59:40 PM PDT by Redcitizen
A Miami man briefly wrestled with and ultimately used a knife to kill a Burmese python measuring 18 feet, 8 inches.
That sets a state record for pythons captured or killed in the wild. The previous record measured 17 feet, 7 inches.
Jason Leon was not hunting pythons but, while driving late at night recently in southeast Miami-Dade County, he and a friend spotted about 3 feet of snake protruding from the brush.
Leon applied the brakes, climbed out of the car, grabbed the visible portion of the snake, and began hauling it onto the road.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: articletitlenoturl; environment; python; wildlife
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To: stevie_d_64
And the Darwin Award for the most stoopid thing to do on a dark road in the middle of nowhere
I dunno about that. When we were young, me and my friends did ALOT of stupid things
But until the "Statute of limitations runs out, I'm not saying nothin'
(wink, wink)
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:14:21 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
To: Redcitizen
Either this guy has
huevos the size of cantaloupes, or he's as crazy as an outhouse rat. Maybe a little of both.
To: Vendome
they come runnin’ just as fast as they can
‘cos every girl crazy ‘bout a sharp dressed man.
ZZ TOP— Sharp Dressed Man.
To: billyboy15
There was no reason to kill the snake. A phone call would have had it placed into local zoo or preserve.Ha ha ha. There are reportedly perhaps hundreds of thousands of pythons now in central Florida. They are wiping out the wildlife much less pets and humans. It is a serious problem down there.
To: plain talk
To: billyboy15
Sure. Wow, you really don’t know about it. With family down there it is sort of a side interest of mine. :-). It is quite hard to believe actually. Do a google on “burmese pythons florida” you will see a lot of articles. The wiki article is a good summary. They don’t know how many - tens of thousands to over hundred thousand based on what has happened to the wildlife, e.g. 99% decrease in raccoons ans 88% decrease in deer. It is so bad they welcome people coming in and killing them.
To: plain talk
88% decrease in DEER?
C’mon, I used to work with exotics. Have you any idea how big a constrictor would have to be to take down and swallow a Deer?
To: billyboy15
Yes. Significant problem down there. Do a google on python florida deer and there are several articles. One indicated a 76 lb intact deer in the stomach. I worry about these things spreading and migrating outwards once they run out of food.
Another article I read once interviewed a everglades park ranger. You would like that one as he described first hand what he has seen happen over the years. With your background you would find it interesting.
To: RedMonqey
Well when you stand before God and he kinda keans in and says, “Hey, you remember that time you did...”
And you stand back and kinda cring at the thought...
You tell him, “You remember that???”
hehehe...I have a good feeling there will be a few uncomfortable moments during that proceding...But hey, I also have a good feeling that a good poke in the arm, or a slap on the butt, and we’ll hear a lot of “Next in line!!!”
I’m not sweating my eternity...I know I’ll screw up again before I shed this mortal coil...
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posted on
05/23/2013 5:05:51 AM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
To: stevie_d_64
Well when you stand before God and he kinda keans in and says, Hey, you remember that time you did...
I think I'm pretty aquare with God, it's the "stink eye" looks I'm goonna get from a lotta relatives/family friends that thought I was a 'little angel" in my youth, I dread. (sheepishly grins)
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posted on
05/23/2013 8:43:55 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
To: billyboy15
Cmon, I used to work with exotics Have you any idea how big a constrictor would have to be to take down and swallow a Deer?
Yes they DO get that big(witness this thread)but I suspect most of the decrease in deers is in fawns or yearlings. Google alligator, python, and burst and you will find a pix of an alligator that burst out of an python that managed to swallow it, in the everglaades(iirc)
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posted on
05/23/2013 8:51:40 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
To: RedMonqey
I know how big they can get. I referred to the ones in Fla.
To: billyboy15
I know how big they can get. I referred to the ones in Fla.
Well, since the article is about "Enormous python killed in Florida is a state record", evidently they do.
(rolls eyes)
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posted on
05/23/2013 12:48:56 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
To: RedMonqey
Listen up “rolls eyes”, what I said was I doubt any Fla constrictors of any kind could take down a Deer.
I stand by that.
To: billyboy15
what I said was I doubt any Fla constrictors of any kind could take down a Deer.
Even with your clumsy attempt at parsing of words you're still wrong.
The python is a constrictor, is large and in Fla.
From Wikipedia:
"Exceptionally large pythons may even require larger food items such as pigs or goats, and are known to have attacked and eaten alligators and adult deer in Florida, where they are an invasive species."
As a "newbie" to FR, you got to learn to get your facts straight here, cuz there's lots of real experts here to correct you when you're clearly in over your head.
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posted on
05/24/2013 11:18:41 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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