Tastes like chicken!

This craphole town sure is getting a lot of play lately.

+1 for the old school cliche. How I miss thee

"So what part of the snake would you say I'm eating right now?

Well, a snake don't really have parts, but if I had to guess, I would say it's his knee."

/what's for dessert?

The Grinch: /what's for dessert?

Alligator

How do they keep from snagging their balls?

Snakes, that is.

The wildlife officer planned to let the snake's remains decay in the canal across the street from the First Church of God.

"The buzzards can take over," he said.


Stay classy, Vero Beach!

I've never really understood the urge people have to keep animals that are totally unsuitable as pets. How hard is it to understand that the cute little snake at the pet shop is eventually going to be 40 feet long and have the ability to swallow your children whole? It's the same with people in a 600sq. ft. apartment buying a St. Bernard puppy.

If you're going to play in the grass, always check for lurking pythons first.

Small ones can be legally sold in pet stores? Are these people out of their farking minds?? Little snakes grow-up to be big snakes, or does that fact escape those involved?

I hope it wasn't John Cleese.

As a snake enthusiast, I think that if you don't have, and don't plan to have the resources to care for a pet that will get that big, enjoy them in zoos and the wild. If you simply must have one for a pet, buy a colubrid or a ball python.

reversevampire: Stay classy, Vero Beach!

hey, it saves the taxpayers money.

Aulus: /obligatory

WTF is that?!?!


Is there a story behind that pic? If so, got a link? kthnxbi

What??? no tube steak commentsssssssss????

jackandwater

Alligator vs Python (new window)

d'oh.

"With the help of bystanders and deputies, the snake was put in a body bag and ultimately donated to a serpentarium near St. Cloud."

That ought to round out the mutilated snake exhibit.

At least it wasn't a trouser snake.

FTA:
"It is lucky this happened," Vero Beach Animal Control Officer Bruce Dangerfield said Monday.


No Dangerfield pics yet?

Dangerfield said he thought the snake originally was a pet that grew too big and was released into the outdoors.




"I had a python when I was a kid. When it got too big for me to take care of, my parents released ME into the outdoors!"

That's about a mile away from where I live!

All around us, in the majority of the county, are massive drainage ditches. At one time, we had a lot of Citrus groves and they used to pump water from the ditches for irrigation.

It's also not the wilds, unfortunately. It used to be, until darn near every idiot from up north moved into the city and plowed everything nice and pretty and wild and wooded under to put up over priced, cookie cutter homes.

Between the gators, the poisonous snakes, a whole bunch of irritable, stinging insects and, now, killer bees coming into the state, we have Pythons and Boa Constrictors that absolute morons let loose.

Congress refuses to pass laws, like in England, forbidding the importation and sale of exotic animals for private ownership, apparently forgetting that idiots tend to buy them.

I caught a young Iguana in my neighbors back yard awhile back and took it to the Animal Society. It was small, but they get big and like to munch on the young and eggs of endangered and soon to be endangered birds.

I guess it doesn't matter anymore. Florida is so f&$ked up ecologically and crowded that you have to hunt real hard to find some little patch of land that doesn't stink from or bear the marks of humans being there. My nice little, once sleepy city is rapidly turning into an expensive dump and since the City Leaders seem to be mainly businessmen, relators, major property holders or land owners, we're pretty well screwed.

We have one smart family in Vero. They live in the middle of 50 acres of wooded land their parents bought when it was about $200 an acre or less -- and they've held onto it. Even through the housing boom (s). They're not rich people, but neither are they poor and they like the big buffer zone of land between them and the krappy developments popping up all over the place.

That's pretty determined, considering that a lot was going for $20,000 at the peak of the boom and 4 lots make up an acre, meaning $160,000. (That's $8,000,000 for the 50 acres.)

I think they're cool.

I wonder how long it will be before the piranha some idiot released into the streams of North Florida reach down here? Those Monkeys that movie company left at Cypress Gardens while filming the old Tarzan series have finally found ways to escape the islands and are starting to annoy folks.

Fire Ants are already here. Some royal idiot imported some huge African Snails and promptly lost some, so now folks have to watch out for them since they like to basically eat everything green that they happen across -- like your garden, flowers and hedges.

I suppose no real effort to remove them will be made until they start consuming golf courses.

Don't come down here to Florida. You folks have done enough damage already. Besides, the percentage of idiots per average population has been climbing rapidly ever since the 80s. Imports.

The best python is a Colt Python

Thanks kentriccubed and shiathead. That was interesting reading. My sister lives in Florida, she hates snakes. LOL I think I am gonna email her this pic.

Rik01: That's about a mile away from where I live!

Wow, it's really amazing how arrogant we humans are. This is also happening here in Spring, Texas, once a beautiful area with large stands of piney woods.

The developers, new car dealerships, strip malls, walmart, etc., mow everything down and pave it over. Then they plant non-native trees... They suck.

Have you read any of Carl Hiaasen's books? They take place in Florida and he addresses, in all of his books, the problem of over development in Florida. His books are interesting, and I recommend you read them.

superbovine: This craphole town sure is getting a lot of play lately.

Somehow I knew before checking your profile you were from around here.

Mmmm python cuts. Chock-full of snakey goodness.

New Moon Rabbit: Rik01: That's about a mile away from where I live!

Wow, it's really amazing how arrogant we humans are. This is also happening here in Spring, Texas, once a beautiful area with large stands of piney woods.

The developers, new car dealerships, strip malls, walmart, etc., mow everything down and pave it over. Then they plant non-native trees... They suck.

Have you read any of Carl Hiaasen's books? They take place in Florida and he addresses, in all of his books, the problem of over development in Florida. His books are interesting, and I recommend you read them.

And ironically, Carl lives in Vero Beach!!

Rik01: That's about a mile away from where I live!

All around us, in the majority of the county, are massive drainage ditches. At one time, we had a lot of Citrus groves and they used to pump water from the ditches for irrigation.

It's also not the wilds, unfortunately. It used to be, until darn near every idiot from up north moved into the city and plowed everything nice and pretty and wild and wooded under to put up over priced, cookie cutter homes.

Between the gators, the poisonous snakes, a whole bunch of irritable, stinging insects and, now, killer bees coming into the state, we have Pythons and Boa Constrictors that absolute morons let loose.

Congress refuses to pass laws, like in England, forbidding the importation and sale of exotic animals for private ownership, apparently forgetting that idiots tend to buy them.

I caught a young Iguana in my neighbors back yard awhile back and took it to the Animal Society. It was small, but they get big and like to munch on the young and eggs of endangered and soon to be endangered birds.

I guess it doesn't matter anymore. Florida is so f&$ked up ecologically and crowded that you have to hunt real hard to find some little patch of land that doesn't stink from or bear the marks of humans being there. My nice little, once sleepy city is rapidly turning into an expensive dump and since the City Leaders seem to be mainly businessmen, relators, major property holders or land owners, we're pretty well screwed.

We have one smart family in Vero. They live in the middle of 50 acres of wooded land their parents bought when it was about $200 an acre or less -- and they've held onto it. Even through the housing boom (s). They're not rich people, but neither are they poor and they like the big buffer zone of land between them and the krappy developments popping up all over the place.

That's pretty determined, considering that a lot was going for $20,000 at the peak of the boom and 4 lots make up an acre, meaning $160,000. (That's $8,000,000 for the 50 acres.)

I think they're cool.

I wonder how long it will be before the piranha some idiot released into the streams of North Florida reach down here? Those Monkeys that movie company left at Cypress Gardens while filming the old Tarzan series have finally found ways to escape the islands and are starting to annoy folks.

Fire Ants are already here. Some royal idiot imported some huge African Snails and promptly lost some, so now folks have to watch out for them since they like to basically eat everything green that they happen across -- like your garden, flowers and hedges.

I suppose no real effort to remove them will be made until they start consuming golf courses.

Don't come down here to Florida. You folks have done enough damage already. Besides, the percentage of idiots per average population has been climbing rapidly ever since the 80s. Imports.

Skink? That you?

Rik01: That's about a mile away from where I live...
Excellent rant and well put.

muckin refarkable:
Skink? That you?
Well played!


/invokes the ghost of John D. MacDonald