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by Cro on May 28, 2009
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I would not worry about your tax dollars.
I would just buy a airboat, and set up python hunting adventures for the yankee tourists. For only $5,000 each, you will provide a python hunting liscense, air boat transport out into the Glades, and a free lunch with all the budwizer they can drink.
And for a additional fee, you can provide taxidermy service for the trophy, and for the more adventurist folks, meat processing and dry ice filled shipping boxes to get that python steak back home.
And, for only a few dollars more, professional photos, suitable for framing, of the safari adventure.
But you should act fast on this, as a lot of enterprising Seminole are probably thinking the same thing, and they allready have the airboats !
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John Z
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by Cro on May 28, 2009
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James, not sure what you mean by "For taking my idea?"
I am sure many folks who have read about the bounties on rattlesnakes, wolves, bear, etc., tought of the same solution for the python situation.
If you did so also, that is good. I first started suggesting a bounty on pythons long ago when the problem first cropped up.
A bounty should be obvious, but I guess it is a bit of a old fashioned idea. Most likely the animals rights folks will get all upset about the issue, and say folks are being cruel to the snakes.
I do find it interesting that some of the Florida articles parrot what I said about a bounty here, almost word for word, LOL. I guess that news paper writer reads this website.
What will be nice though, is if they actually try a bounty, and do not booger it up with too much goverment regulation. I can see it working for the pythons and iguanas both, especially in these tough economic times when folks are looking for any way to earn money.
The biggest mistake they are liable to make, is to set the bounty too high. If they do that, the dishonest folks will be buying up pythons and iguanas at pet shops and reptile shows, and turning them in for cash.
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John Z
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by pitbulllady on May 29, 2009
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What bothers me about the whole thing is the people down in Florida and emphasizing the "reptiles are gross, creepy and mean" angle to get across their point, further strengthening the notion that snakes are evil things that are out to get us, and that anything with scales is not deserving of any compassion or sympathy at all. And, how will the officials know if the snakes and iguanas killed and turned in were killed in the wild, or were purchased and killed for this bounty, or even stolen pets? It's already an issue with me that people will do things to a snake, without the slightest twinge of conscious, that if someone did to a dog or cat, the snake killers would want to put those people UNDER the jail. Cats are one of the most destructive invasive species there is, yet anytime a bounty or open season has been suggested for feral cats or dogs, it wound up costing people their jobs and garnered tons of hate mail responses. I find a snake just as appealing as a dog or other furry animal, actually,and I know I'm not alone. It's one thing to allow hunting, but when that activity is backed by a PR campaign that stresses how horrible and evil and disgusting the animals are, it really opens the door for the most vile of human behavior.
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by ChuckHurd on May 29, 2009
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Guys, this is a terrible idea!!!! Ok, the burms do not belong there and they are plentiful in the wild and in captivity, so what will it hurt to kill them? Ok, but consider this….how many of us have taken in these snakes on adoption. Kept them even though we don’t want them. Spent our time and money finding them a home. Guys, if you are a “snake person” you are not going to kill snakes regardless of the reason. The people that will be trying to collect this bounty are going to be snake haters and this would be giving them free reign to kill anything they see. How many Indigos and pines will lose there life over this buffoonic idea, if indeed they pass it. How many of us have responded to calls for a rattlesnake in my yard and get there to find a rat or garter? It’s going to work the other way too. Every EDB they come across will be shot as a python. I hope this lunacy is stopped before the fact, rather then after 1000’s of native snakes are killed and they realize then it was a bad idea.
We have guys on this site and can find the most obscure and “tiny” snakes. We are talking a needle in a haystack. Why don’t they put a few of these guys on the pay role for a few months. Give them a 40 hour week in the glades with only one objective, collect the burms. If we have people that can find a 12 inch ridge nose hidden away on mountain tops, they can dang well find giant constrictors in the glades.
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by FLVenom911 on May 29, 2009
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Hate to say it, but I agree with the bounty. These pythons have caused all the problems here in Florida in recent years with new regulations. Now, they're Exhibit A for federal legislation. Time to get the AR 15 ready! :)
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by brandonsthaman on May 29, 2009
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I agree with Chuck's point about this opening up people to killing non-Burm snakes too from misidentification or just plain ignorance.
But I have to say, these Burms were condemned to death by their owners or by whatever circumstances set them free (huricane etc.). I think these pythons were a big part of the reason for HR669 and doing something like this, although barbaric, might keep future bans and regulations from happening. I'd say as much as we may not like it, to sacrifice these animals might help save the reptile hobby.
"The good of the many outweighs the good of the one." Spock said it, and I think it fits here...
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by viandy on May 29, 2009
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When I was a kid I shot a bow a lot, and thought bow fishing would be fun. Except that the only fish you could shoot that way were not ones you'd want to eat. When I first heard about the "python invasion" (real or imagined) bow fishing immediately came to mind. Seems like a good way to harvest them to me!
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by thenewdisciple on May 29, 2009
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"They've already found grown deer, they've found full sized bobcats inside them. It's just a matter of time before one gets the highly endangered Florida panther." So says a Florida Senator. How stupid is this guy? Does he understand the fundamental size difference between a panther and a bobcat?
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