man kills giant burmese

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/excur...-state-record/

He should have just left it be. No sense in harming animals like this. Although it was in self defense, it was uncalled for to drag it onto the road.

Yeah... no. He was right to have killed it. They're devastating the ecosystem.

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Originally Posted by ChaosAffect

Yeah... no. He was right to have killed it. They're devastating the ecosystem.

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I wasn't aware of their effects on the ecosystem. I just can't imagine killing an animal like this.

If he once owned them, why did he feel the need to kill it? And with a knife? Ten to one says it was his damn snake and he just wanted his fifteen minutes of fame, so he staged the incident to look like a hero.

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Originally Posted by Cortland V.

I wasn't aware of their effects on the ecosystem. I just can't imagine killing an animal like this.

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They're escaped/freed pets that have no natural predators in the Everglades. Big problem. So big that the government actually sponsored a hunting competition for them. It sucks, but as great as they are as pets they're terrible for wildlife.

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Yeah well, all this Burmese noise in Florida sounds more and more like propaganda to me after that monumental failure of a round up they just had where 1600 "hunters" found a whopping 68 pythons out of the estimated thousands. It sounds like these estimates may be incredibly exaggerated.

From my understanding he didn't feel the need to kill it until it started wrapping him up. This is when his friends jumped in with a knife. Seeing as they are an invasive species, maybe he was just trying to catch it not realizing how big it was. I highly doubt an owner who put the time into caring for a snake that got that large would want to depose of it in this manner just to become a hero.

I wasn't there so all of this is conjecture. Needless to say, that is one large specimen.

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Yeah well, all this Burmese noise in Florida sounds more and more like propaganda to me after that monumental failure of a round up they just had where 1600 "hunters" found a whopping 68 pythons out of the estimated thousands. It sounds like these estimates may be incredibly exaggerated.

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I don't think you understand how it works with invasives. You don't wait until there are so many of them that they're a problem. You try to wipe them out before it gets that bad. If only they'd done this same thing with fire ants a hundred years ago...

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I don't think you understand how it works with invasives. You don't wait until there are so many of them that they're a problem. You try to wipe them out before it gets that bad. If only they'd done this same thing with fire ants a hundred years ago...

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And when did I suggest that you should wait to address an invasive species problem? I don't recall, but thanks for telling me what I understand. I understand the incredible range of invasive species Florida is vulnerable to and the importance of maintaining an already delicately balanced ecosystem of native species. All I stated was that I believe the estimates they've been shouting about for the last few years are questionable after their big event and little results. "Little" being relative to the number of animals removed in relation to number of "hunters" participating. I also understand that, hey, if 68 snakes are what they could remove, then great, that's certainly a step in the right direction.