Florida Everglades may host massive python hunt

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:43 PM EDT

Article Source: The Orlando Sentinel

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maddad

Sen. Bill Nelson and U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney on Tuesday made separate proposals to recruit volunteers to hunt the Burmese pythons infesting Everglades National Park. And the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is working on a plan to recruit experienced snake handlers to stalk them on state lands and kill them with machetes.

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#1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:44 PM EDT

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RoxyFL

It's about darn time!!. My son wants to volunteer lol.

There are a lot of idiots out there still will get them as pets and when they can't deal with it anymore release it to nature. They are destroying Florida's natural habitat.

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#1.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:17 PM EDT

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maddad

agree, i would like to go too....boots have to be cheaper if i provide the hide....

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2 votes

#1.2 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:25 PM EDT

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RoxyFL

We are Fl resident but residing in MD currently. Sunday we went hiking, my son ( have no idea how he sees it) but found a copper head, and was trying to take pictures of it with his cell phone at close range.. Almost gave me a heart attack. I took a picture by zooming in from a distance. It was a baby (with bite that that doesn't control the amount of venom it injects), and looks like a puzzle among the foliage.

And yesterday he caught a huge racer. He is 12 and thinks invincible.

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#1.3 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:45 PM EDT

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maddad

hope you will upload the pic...

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#1.4 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:46 PM EDT

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Jeffrey Merrill

Those snake handlers better be experienced with pythons. A twenty foot python can take out a 250lb tiger. and that is not very old for a python. Depending on age and food source, some could be rather big, back in the everglades.

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#2 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:24 PM EDT

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RoxyFL

All you say is very true

Image of the carcass of a six-foot American alligator protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python in Everglades is still on my mind, and do not want to see another or hear another child killed by one of those.

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#2.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:40 PM EDT

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US Citizen-658112

Large pythons are very dangerious animals and should be treated with appropriate respect.

I think for safeties sake shotguns should be allowed at least as a backup to other methods. If a snake gets ahold of someone its going to have to be dealt with quickly and surely or the person may well be so injured that they die.

Also, the meat, if possible, should be harvested and used to feed the homeless. It seems a waste to harvest the animals and then just use the skins.

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1 vote

#3 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:14 AM EDT

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Jeffrey Merrill

I hear it is good to eat. Ive eaten rattler, it was delicious. :)

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#3.1 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:44 AM EDT

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Augur Well

Jeffrey, just Google "python meat" and be prepared for a smorgasbord of recipes.

I've had western diamondback a number of times. Pan fried, roasted, in something like a stew. It is quite good! And to me anyway, it really does taste a little like chicken!

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#3.2 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:32 AM EDT

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