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Python hunters bag 37 in Florida hunting season

Full story: TwinCities.com

Expert snake hunters snared 37 pythons in South Florida during a trial hunting season to eradicate the invasive species.

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wow

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Nov 3, 2009
 
Thank goodness they got rid of 37 pythons it will make a huge difference in the tens of thousands that they have down there.
NightRider

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Nov 3, 2009
 
Pythons are an invasive, non-native species. Any that can be captured and eliminated should be. Individuals who own them, should be required to get rid of them. These are NOT pets!!!

Since: Oct 07

Birmingham, AL

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Nov 3, 2009
 
Pythons are our friends. Now if anacoluthons were on the loose ...
DILF

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I wish I had a dime every time a hot chick hunted down my python.......

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wow wrote:
Thank goodness they got rid of 37 pythons it will make a huge difference in the tens of thousands that they have down there.
Last time the idiot from Florida spoke about it there were MILLIONS- and they got 37...hmmm. In the two years before (when he started out saying ten thousand) they got 15. See anything wrong with that? It's all a lie. There are some pythons out there. Professional snake hunters, who abound in Florida, would be coming up with dozens a day if their numbers were that great. Especially since so many of them are morphs- axanthics and albinos with no protective coloration so you can see them 200 feet a way. It's a load.
Leroy

Minneapolis, MN

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Nov 3, 2009
 
SAY WHAT?? Anacoluthons?? That's an abrupt grammatical change within a sentence.

Did you mean ANACONDAS??
Caucasian-Alabamian wrote:
Pythons are our friends. Now if anacoluthons were on the loose ...

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Since: Jul 08

Springfield, OR

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Nov 4, 2009
 
"Expert snake hunters". hahahaha I like that. I've just been promoted.(Like it takes a lot of skill to score pythons.)
Blondie

Hillman, MN

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Nov 4, 2009
 
Don't they taste like chicken?

Since: Oct 07

Birmingham, AL

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Leroy wrote:
SAY WHAT?? Anacoluthons?? That's an abrupt grammatical change within a sentence.
Did you mean ANACONDAS??
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No, I meant anacoluthons. I was trying to impress Opis with my knowledge of pythons and other connochaetes; plus, it was an attempt at a little humor. Evidently, it didn't go over too well.

So tell me, when was the last time you used anacoluthon in a sentence?

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Nov 4, 2009
 
Dr_Dirty wrote:
"Expert snake hunters". hahahaha I like that. I've just been promoted.(Like it takes a lot of skill to score pythons.)
Well, difference between someone out looking for snakes and an expert- A Florida State Wildlife Official said it had been years since he had found a wild Florida kingsnake. I went out with four expert snake hunters and we tagged 130 of them walking around between 8:30 a.m. and noon near Okeechobee. Similarly they said there were thousands of monocled cobras around a snake park there that got damaged by a hurricane. We found none, and no traces. No one ever has, amazingly enough. Officials are funny- "They're nearly extinct!" and you can find 'em everywhere; "There's millions of them!" and people find 37.

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Springfield, OR

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Nov 4, 2009
 
Father Theresa wrote:
<quoted text>Well, difference between someone out looking for snakes and an expert- A Florida State Wildlife Official said it had been years since he had found a wild Florida kingsnake. I went out with four expert snake hunters and we tagged 130 of them walking around between 8:30 a.m. and noon near Okeechobee. Similarly they said there were thousands of monocled cobras around a snake park there that got damaged by a hurricane. We found none, and no traces. No one ever has, amazingly enough. Officials are funny- "They're nearly extinct!" and you can find 'em everywhere; "There's millions of them!" and people find 37.
My point being that it doesn't take a lot of skill to be "expert".
The Golf Guy

Montverde, FL

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I've seen some snakes down here on the golf courses. They try to move the ball when no one is looking. They likely number in the thousands in the winter time, then the snow birds go home.
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