Hey Florida, how bout them Burmese Pythons?

http://youtu.be/cKCKXAkYkbI

 

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/30/146088909/invasive-pythons-put-squeeze-on-everglades-animals

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been watching the python explosion and is taking action. On Jan. 17, the agency made it illegal to import Burmese pythons or transport them across state lines. That includes three other constrictor species from Africa and South America: the yellow anaconda and the northern and southern African pythons.

The ban allows people who now own these snakes to keep them, and you can still buy and sell them within a state or export them overseas. Jewell emphasizes that the new rule doesn't mean anyone has to give up his snake.

 

They make Nice belts and they taste like chicken....The best part is you can kill them for fun...

 

I'll put that as a +1 for the northern regions where we don't have 6'+ long snakes

 

alright Floridians, time to eradicate these things!

Until then, I think tourism is going to pretty much stop for you guys lol.

 

Yeap thank GOD for the new laws that have turned them snakes into moving practice targets...

 

psshhhh let'em come to alabama. snake hunting is a hobby here. been lookin for somethin more of a challenge than rattlers


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we don't get them out on the coast around me. just gators and armadillos. dillos could use some population thinning too though. those things are all over the roads.....picture running over a really big water balloon

 

About time somebody did something about these snakes. I saw a large one on the side of a road just outside of Kissimmee (near Orlando) one morning, apparently ran over by several vehicles and later dragged off the road. Darn thing was almost the length of my car. Striking such an obstacle could have easily caused an accident. A motorcyclist would have certainly wiped out.

 

Are they classified as a nuisance animal now? Last I heard you had to capture them first and euthanize them. Would be sweet if they did..

 

Not from Fla., no law says you cant kill them..