Snakes Alive, Snake Dead

[carr914]

You Panty-waste California guys *****ed because that big Monitor Lizard was killed in URY's yard. How would you like this crawling around the 'Hood? - 17 1/2 feet long, 26 inches in diameter, 208lbs.

T.C.

[syncroid]

I don't think its a matter of where you live. I don't think you would like that snake crawling around in your yard either. As to the monitor lizard, my opinion is that it should have been brought to someone where it couldn't get out or potentially hurt someone... NOT killed! I would feel the same about the snake unless it already had killed or hurt someone. That would be different.

[Rick Lee]

Is that a Retic or an Anaconda?

[Looking_for_911]

This little fellow - approx. 4-feet in length - was knocked silly by a passing car near some houses in our neighborhood. When I stopped to investigate it was still very much alive. I was looking at it through the camera from about 10-feet not convinced that the snake couldn't strike or fly through the air to bite me!
All was fine until some ol' boy in a pickup stopped to investigate and commenced to "poking" the snake with a stick.
This shot was after it uncoiled and started crawling toward the dummy with the stick.
The sound the rattles made was not like what one hears on television. I'll never forget it.

[MT930]

That one is still edible!,get'em fresh

Broiled in Butter mmmmmmmm.

[TheMentat]

Originally Posted by carr914

You Panty-waste California guys *****ed because that big Monitor Lizard was killed in URY's yard. How would you like this crawling around the 'Hood? - 17 1/2 feet long, 26 inches in diameter, 208lbs.

T.C.

I think that's 26 inches in circumference... huge mutha regardless!

[serge944]

Looks like a Rock Python to me. I remember when I was 12 and spent my birthday money on a 6 ft long specimen without telling my mom.

She freaked out.

[vash]

rebar caps! safety first!

maybe a reticulated python?

[juanbenae]

good spot cliff.

[andytheturtle]

It is a yellow Anaconda.

[rnln]

Why wouldn't anyone of you kill the creature? Isn't it dangerous to someone?

Originally Posted by Looking_for_911

This little fellow - approx. 4-feet in length - was knocked silly by a passing car near some houses in our neighborhood. When I stopped to investigate it was still very much alive. I was looking at it through the camera from about 10-feet not convinced that the snake couldn't strike or fly through the air to bite me!
All was fine until some ol' boy in a pickup stopped to investigate and commenced to "poking" the snake with a stick.
This shot was after it uncoiled and started crawling toward the dummy with the stick.
The sound the rattles made was not like what one hears on television. I'll never forget it.

[Rick V]

Some of you, "why kill it" people need to just slow your roll. Here is how the law is written here on my property. If there is a snake anywhere my lawn mower goes, the snake will die. that is the "green zone" and no snake is allowed in MY area. I don't care if it is a harmless (call it that if you want but they still hurt like hell and will make you sick as a dog) black snake. I don't want to hear, "But they help with the rodent population", I have 4 cats, I don't need no help with rodents. snakes here in the land of Rick must, and do die.
That big mother snake I would have shot several times and then used my truck to finish it off. After I got some clean shorts, cause I'da soiled myself having walked up on that thing.

[Leland Pate]

[s_morrison57]

Kill em all, the only good snake is a dead snake, once you get bitten by one you will feel the same way

[URY914]

There is something like 150,000 pythons in the Everglades.

[M.D. Holloway]

I have heard of pythons getting loose but thats a huge number.

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by Rick V

I don't want to hear, "But they help with the rodent population", I have 4 cats, I don't need no help with rodents.

Ok...May help with the cat population.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by URY914

There is something like 150,000 pythons in the Everglades.

Wow! Think of all the neat things that can be made for their skins....pool cue cases, wallets, belts, hatbands...the list goes on.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Wow! Think of all the neat things that can be made for their skins....pool cue cases, wallets, belts, hatbands...the list goes on.

They are now having state hunts for them.. The picture that started this thread is from the hunt.. So yes, that guy was in our woods...

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8116185

Everglades snake hunt gets off to good start
By WILLIE HOWARDCox NewspapersMost-read stories


SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla. — Call it the catch of the day.

Reptile experts captured a 9-foot, 8-inch female python Friday in a swath of the Everglades just after meeting with reporters and wildlife officials to discuss the start of the Great Florida Snake Hunt.

Gov. Charlie Crist ordered the hunt for the snakes this week after years of alarm about the spread of the nuisance reptiles in the Everglades — and weeks after a pet python killed a 2-year-old girl.

Friday’s drama followed a news conference in which the snake experts described how hard pythons can be to find in the wild. Then a posse of airboats glided through the Everglades marsh to Brown’s Camp, a tree island west of Fort Lauderdale.

Walking along a boardwalk around a shack house, snake expert Greg Graziani spotted a python under the walkway.

After he grabbed the tail, another snake expert, Shawn Heflick, grabbed its head, getting a scratch on his hand. The snake hunters had not expected to find a python on this trip.

After the snake’s location was noted with a hand-held GPS unit, the python was placed in a pillowcase and transported back to Everglades Holiday Park.

There, Heflick severed its spinal cord with a pocket knife and examined its stomach contents. Those included rat-toe bones and rat fur.

Rodney Barreto, chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said the commission will push for an emergency rule that allows hunters to kill pythons with guns if they encounter them while hunting.

[pwd72s]

I watched a pay per view pool match yesterday...much discussion on the chat over the wrap used on Scott Frost's custom cue. It was supposedly "albino Cobra"....

Not very effective...It's a 3 day match...race to fifty games won each of three days. 2 days complete.
Current score is Shane Van Boening 100, Scott Frost 64.

Shane recently piced up a lucrative sponsorship deal from Cuetec cues. He's shooting with an R360 cuetec, which can be purchased online for less than $200.

Still...that cobra wrap cue of Frost's is breathtaking..

The point? MORE SNAKESKINS!!!