May 9th, 2010 
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The first-ever public python hunting season wrapped up in Florida last month: Dozens of Floridians tooled around the state in their pick-ups, looking for oversized pet snakes which have escaped into the Everglades. Python hunting is our new national pastime. More »
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Personally, the New Yorker had me at “Do you want a snake…”
Uh, no thanks! Also, am I the only one taken aback at the thought of a urinating and defecating snake? I suppose I always knew snakes did both those things, but I expected something more… genteel? than horse-like behavior.
You disappoint me, toddler-consuming tube of scaly flesh!
Amdesi
@Anrkist: Wow.
jacobestes
@Good Girl Gone Bad: Maybe it has something to do with their failure to outlaw bestiality….
TheClap
@jacobestes: You walk around in river water looking for holes in the riverbed. Stick your arm in one of the holes and a catfish, if available, will grab hold of your arm with its mouth. Basically, the most retarded way to go fishing.
People die of course.
Anrkist
@Anrkist: Can I ask: What is noodling?
jacobestes
The import and sale of pythons in Florida are still legal because pet store owners make $2.5 million a year selling them.
This despite the fact that Florida is now spending $100 million a year killing them…and it is endangering many species.
I am dumbfounded why they still permit pythons to be imported into Florida
Good Girl Gone Bad
Mmmmm boots.
ZOMGOGGLES
@KC2009: You must be from Florida.
raincoaster
I think most pythons only have enough skin for a pair of hot pants. PLEASE GOD NO PYTHON HOTPANTS TREND
raincoaster
@Saya25: But why is there a season at all… its an invasive species, a season implies that we care about it at all….. so ridiculous
Saya25
@Thrillho: hope you can rub one or two snakes out after you polishing your stick. Just look out, I hear they go for the eyes or your neck first…
Not sent from my iPad
They can have sex with the pythons too. Talk about a win/win situation
KC2009
If only we could somehow get them all to board a 747; then Sam Jackson can take it from there.
mk402407
@Saya25: There was a huge void between possum season and coon season.
Sth002000
@TurdBlossom: Yes, and Barry White showed up to defend the snakes.
I don’t think he would approve of toddler eaters, though….
maude_flanders
Wasn’t this an episode of the Simpson’s?
TurdBlossom
@Saya25: No one in Florida will go at it seriously unless there is a “season.” If there’s no season, it’s not a sport.
PersianCarport
@Thrillho: O Whacking Day, O Whacking Day
Our hallowed snake-skull cracking day
We’ll break their backs
Gouge out their eyes
Their evil hearts we’ll pulverize
O Whacking Day, O Whacking Day
May God bestow his grace on Thee.
ReelMissing
Another legacy of Lee Atwater and the southern strategy: python infestation.
Airvault
@#c22795074: I love geocaching. Secretly.
Spider Monkeys are the Bees Knees
Aren’t there plenty of people in NYC with experience hunting for oversized snake-like objects that we could send to Florida to help these poor devils out?
Swifter
What Florida needs is gorillas, snake eating gorillas.
Vulcan Has No Moon
Time for me to polish my whacking stick.
Thrillho
It’s still not as dumb as Noodling. I know, I watched a 2 hour documentary on PBS about it.
Anrkist
There is always room for more innovation. Right now someone is finding a way to combine rats and snakes, python hunting, geocaching, and Russian nesting dolls into a new sport.
intrepid spaniel Stigg
@WillaCatheter: Damn you for beating me to the punch! That’s what I get for slowly going through my tabs.
*shakes fist*
Sticks Calhoun
And sometimes they both lose! [news.nationalgeographic.com]
Sticks Calhoun
In case someone missed this story…
[www.snopes.com]
If a “feral” python will go after a six-foot alligator, we’re all potentially on the menu.
WillaCatheter
Nobody caught one? That is idiotic! I see them all the time down there. Another thing why do you need a season? Why not kill them on sight regardless of the time… FL put down the cocaine and lets try thinking a bit…. This is a huge problem down here! Idealy the gov should have a bounty on them, that way they will get cleaned up faster…
FYI gawker the real pastime in FL “Gator hunting” Now that is ridiculous to witness
Saya25