Fla. Better Get a Handle on the Python Epidemic

MGTeacher

Hey, if it can in Indonesia it can happen in Fla.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/indonesian-man-found-dead-inside-giant-python/ar-BBz0GCp?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp

Soda Popinski

i saw that. terrible way to go.

tankard

So long, Akbar. Good snake! Shoulda let it continue it's mission...

Dr. Bogas

I checked in to getting permit, state requires big snake handling experience you must capture alive take it to check station they kill it then return it. since I don't have big snake handling experience I was going to put on the application line every time I urinate.

SouthFloridaAngler

Allahu Akbar

Finfinder

Dr. Bogas wrote: »

I checked in to getting permit, state requires big snake handling experience you must capture alive take it to check station they kill it then return it. since I don't have big snake handling experience .

So let me get this straight we have a serious python problem in Florida and the State has found a way to make money off of it and ensure the problem will never be fixed?

Eddy d

http://myfwc.com/license/wildlife/nonnative-species/python-permit-program/

Polar

triple threat has big snake handling experience, just ask the mods here.

Bruce S

Polar

http://youtu.be/NSNgo81f6KI

Finfinder

Eddy d wrote: »

http://myfwc.com/license/wildlife/nonnative-species/python-permit-program/

they make it real easy :rolleyes

knotty boys

if only we could get them to like the taste of cubans

Buford Cletus

Dr. Bogas wrote: »

. since I don't have big snake handling experience I was going to put on the application line every time I urinate.

It wouldn't have been funny there either.

guido4198

Not sure why " big snake handling experience " needs to be a prerequisite.
Coupla rounds from a 12 ga. and all you're handling is dead weight.

Griz

guido4198 wrote: »

Not sure why " big snake handling experience " needs to be a prerequisite.
Coupla rounds from a 12 ga. and all you're handling is dead weight.

Why are there any regulations at all? Wipe them out, or at least try.

dave44

Lotta kids less than 5'2" around here?

MGTeacher

I know I read the article, but you just wait, eventually a Fla. python will kill a human.

JohnnyBandit wrote: »

It happens occasionally over there...... You do realize that the average indonesian man is like 5'2" and 110 pounds....

Plus the snakes that are the culprits are reticulated pythons.... We have Burmese here

tankard

Griz wrote: »

Why are there any regulations at all? Wipe them out, or at least try.

This.

Finfinder

Griz wrote: »

Why are there any regulations at all? Wipe them out, or at least try.

there would be no revenue generated

mustang190

Put a bounty on them and let anyone kill them on sight. And ban all importation/ownership of them. Problem solved.

Bottom Lines

We've killed a bunch in the Big Cypress over the past 10 or so years... Don't really need or looking for a bounty... lol

CountryBumpkin

No worries....most true Floridians already "got a handle on it".....we handle it per the tried and true "SSS" method.:thumbsup