What A Great Place To Live!

Further to the previous post, here is a look behind the bottom article and what the hey is going on in south Florida.

They's having themselves a Python hunt.

Where are we?  Egypt in 2,000 B.C.

What next, plagues of locusts o'er the land?

But you got to hand it to these good old boys from the south.

They shore is up for a challenge.

Apparently, some Burmese pythons were released into the Everglades - either as unwanted pets (No shit, Sherlock; "Ack! It ate Mr. Fluff!") or from the cargo hold of some foreign ship - and now number upwards of 100,000.

With no known predators, they have eaten everything under three feet tall.  And then some.

That's because they can unhinge their jaws.

So you wouldn't catch me wading out in da swamp with only a stick.

A python might, but you wouldn't.

They've even been known to eat alligators.

Of course, turn about is fair play.


Prizes for the hunt are $5,000 for the largest snake and another $5,000 for the most snakes caught.

Considering there are over 100,000 of these suckers in the Everglades, they only caught 59 in the last hunt.  So lots left, boys!



But this hunt is making headlines all over.

Here is a national reporter (in shorts) with a local hunter (in camo).

Since they found no snakes that day, they let him hold a baby croc.

The New York reporter looks to be enjoying that.

 

And Bill O'Reilly also seems to be enjoying that.

Big stuff when something makes The O'Reilly Factor.

Now under the caption "Seemed like a good idea at the time".....

...here a python eats a porcupine.

It didn't end well - for either of them.

When will the madness end?


Can't We Just All Get Along?

I hate to think what would happen if these two teamed up on the same side.

All that would be missing is a shark.

"Mr. Spielberg?"