Python Challenge: Florida Snake Hunters Compete for Cash Prizes

The challenge is DUMB, instead put a bounty on the python all year around. $20 per snake should do it. Look what bounties did to the wolves. Let the hunter keep the carcass and remove the head to prevent scams. Let the hunter be liable for himself. Make training available but not mandatory.

i am rooting for the snakes to win the contest

Reading these comments make me shake my head.

Should burms be in the Everglades? No.
Is this the right way to go about trying to remove them? Maybe.
But are these snakes horrible monsters, out to spread all over the US and eat you? No.

Read up on some facts about these giants before you accuse them based on fear and lack of knowledge.

These snakes aren't going to move up out of Florida. The chances of encountering one are minimal and more then likely even a 20ft snake just wants to get away from you. If anything now that we'll have a bunch of untrained people trying to jump on 6-17ft snakes like the Croc Hunter... we might end up with someone getting killed. A 6ft burm can EASILY overpower a full grown, in shape man.

However as pets and when worked with correctly, these animals are amazing. I'm a 5'1" 110lb female. My burm is almost 3x as long as me and weighs about 50lbs more than I.

She's a great ambassador to the children I work with. Calm, tolerant, and chances of her killing me are slim to none. I worry more when I stand in front of a vending machine... vending machines kill more people per year then large constrictors have in the past 10.


Just saying.

Arabs taste bad.

Arabs taste bad

Yeah...let's just send people into the Everglades to go snake-hunting. No training...just a truck, a case of beer on ice, and a gun.

What kind of TRAINING are these people going to get before they venture into an environment infested with alligators, pythons, and other predatory creatures?

Are you at least going to tell them NOT to go hunting in there alone and get some TRAINING first?????

So, let me get this right, they want people - to use guns (the most humane way, according to their web-site) and shoot these pythons in the head. Yet, everyone is yelling for us to get rid of our guns? So, if we didn't have our guns, we should go python hunting with? shovels? stomp on them - all 17 feet of them? I am sure they can trap some of them, but if they are coming toward you - say like someone breaking into your house? What would you prefer? A gun? A Shovel? Or just stomp on them?

I feel pythons and boa constrictors should not be allowed as pets. When they escape or released they become predators. These snakes have just about wiped out the natural fauna of the Everglades and now moving into human habitats.

lol. can you eat them?

Papa - Joe is right on!