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Title: Python fest 2012!
Post by: fightingquaker13 on December 06, 2012, 04:04:01 PM
Florida is finally getting its act together on the python front. The Fish and game department is sponsoring a month long bounty hunt with a $1500 prize for the biggest snake. Group outing?

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/cerabino-state-sanctioned-python-hunt-could-bring-/nTNnj/
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: lhprop1 on December 06, 2012, 04:24:35 PM
I really dislike the anti-hunting tone of the moron who wrote that "article".  Then again, the history of Floridians doing really stupid shit is long and well documented, so they may have a point. 
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: fightingquaker13 on December 06, 2012, 04:36:20 PM
I really dislike the anti-hunting tone of the moron who wrote that "article".  Then again, the history of Floridians doing really stupid shit is long and well documented, so they may have a point.  
He is kind of a cranky Yankee SOB, put he writes the political satire column down here, so that does tend to make you cynical with all the BS we tend to do. I was a little surprised by the anti-snake killing thing though, since wrote a column about how he'd collected some "dead" iguanas from his back yard after a freeze and drove the bodies to a dumpster so the kids wouldn't be traumatized by the carnage. Its amazing what a car heater can do to wake up a comatose reptile. ;D If I were him, I'd still hold a grudge, of course, I'm not a moron from Jersey either and so I wouldn't have put them in my car.(Sorry Jaybet, it was low hanging fruit). ;D
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: fightingquaker13 on December 06, 2012, 04:50:00 PM
Just to inspire y'all come to come down and participate, here's a "tactical" video on prper snake whacking, I'm sure Pincus and MB would approve. ;D

Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: Ulmus on December 06, 2012, 08:22:34 PM
The fun part comes when you're hip deep in the everglades, focused on pythons when a gator comes up and snacks on your leg!   ;D

Good times!
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: santahog on December 06, 2012, 09:15:40 PM
Florida is finally getting its act together on the python front. The Fish and game department is sponsoring a month long bounty hunt with a $1500 prize for the biggest snake. Group outing?

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/cerabino-state-sanctioned-python-hunt-could-bring-/nTNnj/

It would be fun if I still lived there, and could still move.. Too bad they're about 10+ years late getting started..
It ought to be open season, year round for all those reptiles that these nose-pierced idiots thought would be a cool/goth/creepy pet..
Who gets the meat? The Zoo?
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 06, 2012, 09:17:38 PM
The fun part comes when you're hip deep in the everglades, focused on pythons when a gator comes up and snacks on your leg!   ;D

Good times!

Never happen, the Copperheads, Watermoccasins, and Coral snakes will keep the Gators away.  ;D
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: santahog on December 06, 2012, 09:22:56 PM
Never happen, the Copperheads, Watermoccasins, and Coral snakes will keep the Gators away.  ;D
Reminds me of a "Shroomin" trip down in Payne's Prairie..
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 06, 2012, 09:24:51 PM
Reminds me of a "Shroomin" trip down in Payne's Prairie..

What ever would you be referring to ?  ROFLMAO
Gives "flipping patties" a whole different meaning   ;D
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: alfsauve on December 07, 2012, 05:17:29 AM
Every time we go down I-75 I try to explain to my wife why that's a prairie.   She insists that because it's got water it can't be.

Like trying to tell her Antarctica is a desert.
Title: Re: Python fest 2012!
Post by: Rastus on December 07, 2012, 11:55:13 AM
The fun part comes when you're hip deep in the everglades, focused on pythons when a gator comes up and snacks on your leg!   ;D

Good times!

A friend of mine was in the first team of divers to hit the Valujet crash.  They had real issues with the gators.