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2006-06-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2006-06-15 11:02|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 does Florida really need Burmese pythons?

I've a feeling even Burma would happily do without them.

Posted by Mike 2006-06-15 12:42|| 2006-06-15 12:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, but do they eat kiddies?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-15 12:48|| 2006-06-15 12:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Snake bursts after gobbling gator

Posted by ed 2006-06-15 13:00|| 2006-06-15 13:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, judging from that article, I guess they CAN eat kiddies...

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-15 13:08|| 2006-06-15 13:08|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember that pic, Ed and still wonder if a lil' photoshop was used on that. However, I'm sure they're nasty creatures, and will soon tangle more and more with the Gators. Being an Auburn fan myself, this is the first time I'm cheering for the Gators. And, I agree with Steve...cheapest AND quickest way to get rid of them is to open up huntin' season down there. All the trendies in Coral Gables and Miami Beach would just love some snakeskin boots.

Posted by BA 2006-06-15 13:43|| 2006-06-15 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Outlaw the selling of weird vermin!

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-15 13:48|| 2006-06-15 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 I was horribly traumatized in childhood by a vivid illustration in "Swiss Family Robinson" of an enormous python swallowing a donkey whole. And alive.
*shudder*

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2006-06-15 14:42|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2006-06-15 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Where are the Wombats when you really need them?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-06-15 15:27|| 2006-06-15 15:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I was horribly traumatized in childhood by a vivid illustration in "Swiss Family Robinson" of an enormous python swallowing a donkey whole. And alive.
*shudder*

Not a donkey...

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-06-15 16:17|| 2006-06-15 16:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Having bred and kept burmese pythons for some time I can state these are the most laid back large python. They just ain't wired to hunt primates. Retics and african rocks go after monkeys. Burms seem to like birds but don't like to climb. The article doesn't mention that most likely a big part of their diet in the glades most likely is possums and racoons.
I have always felt that the gator eaten by the burm was a case of the burm putting the gator to "sleep" like the gator wrasslers do by getting it on its backonce in the belly in came to killing the python.
The snake eating the roo is an amethystine python now there is a snake with attitude problems.
Talking about nasty reptiles there is a colony of nile monitor lizards(grows to 6') down in Cape Coral. We had a talk from the person doing the same kind thing as with the pythons. Of course once the news went out that he was going to trap and kill the lizards he was contacted by PETA. They told him surely that there was some other way other than killing the trapped lizards. He told them he had $1500 for shipping in his grant budget, could he ship them to their HQ?
Something about shipping PETA large carnivorus reptiles has a certain appeal, a cause that I feel many rantburgers could support.

Posted by bruce 2006-06-15 18:24|| 2006-06-15 18:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Wait till you guys hear about the giant rats in Orange County that are the size of cats. No lie.

Things grow bigger in Texas, but freakin' HUGE here!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-06-15 18:28|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-06-15 18:28|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 bruce - now that's a shipping charge I'll gladly help pay! :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-06-15 18:58|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html ]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html ] 2006-06-15 18:58|| Front Page Top

#13 We should send the snakes on a plane!

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-06-15 19:19|| 2006-06-15 19:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Thanks for that, Bruce, puts things in perspective.
All those Puff Adders, Gaboon Vipers and Cobras I slotted on the farm in Africa, never mind the boomslangs. I'm trying to tell my Cornsnakes they got nothing to worry about, since Cornelius went awol!

Never mind the Royal Python, Monty. Aint seen him since I go my laser-dot for the .22, lol! And the Korean Rat Snake is real worried, too.

On a serious note, this is irresponsiblity on the scale of letting moslems into Sweden, ie self-inflicted, no sympathy; but if you want to pay me to kill them I will. Just kidding.

Posted by rhodesiafever">rhodesiafever 2006-06-15 19:32|| 2006-06-15 19:32|| Front Page Top

#15 Some timely advice for Florida residents.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-06-15 20:06|| 2006-06-15 20:06|| Front Page Top

#16 As an aside, I don't want to diss snakes, or nyokas, as we called 'em, but, heh, I have long drawn an analogy between them and Mossies, I don't trust none of them, not even the "friendlies".

As I said, I don't want to diss nyokas.

Boesoker, come home.

Posted by As an aside 2006-06-15 20:12|| 2006-06-15 20:12|| Front Page Top

#17 Something about shipping PETA large carnivorus reptiles has a certain appeal, a cause that I feel many rantburgers could support.

I'm in for $20, but only if they're venomous too.

Posted by DMFD 2006-06-15 21:33|| 2006-06-15 21:33|| Front Page Top

#18 train em to eat Nutria

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