The Hill- A team of trackers found a pile of snakes totaling 500 pounds in a South Florida marsh last month. The report said the discovery happened on Feb. 21 on public land in Naples when officials discovered a 7-foot wide mound of 11 pythons. more
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I hate snakes
All because one person had an illegal pet python and let it go when it got big.
That person knows, or knew, who they are.
I wonder if they see this and feel any remorse?
Probably not.
Diversity is not a strength, even with snakes.
When I was stationed at Homestead AFB in the late 70s, our Navy site was down Card Sound rd. There was a man made pond just outside of the antenna array that we sailors would fish. Just to the right of the small dock was a clump of reeds and in that clump was a enormous python. I took my then 6 yo son fishing there a few times but always carried a hatchet. Damn thing scared me almost as much as the 12 gator that was on the other side of the pond.
Good times….
(Btw, the site is now a gun/skeet club)
The story I heard was people were flushing the baby snakes down the toilet to get rid of them once they got bored.
And now the Nile Monitor and every little
fishy you ever saw as a kid in a pet shop now lives in the
multitudes of canals,lakes and swamps of Flota….
Not to mention iguanas. My understanding is there was a snake “farm” in south Florida that was destroyed by a hurricane (Andrew?) and freed thousands of pythons, which breed prodigiously, have plenty of food available and no natural predators. The perfect snake storm.
“flushing the baby snakes down the toilet”
And they all ended up in congress.
In a mound? That’s a giant gang bang. That’s what they do.
By the way, I love the term “Nope Ropes”
Never heard it before. 🙂
Too bad these idiots didn’t have a good shotgun too kill all of ’em. Stupid to let them proliferate. Wise to kill them out. Bunch of greenie/pussies,
On our cattle ranch in Eastern WA we had rattle snakes. There was a cave where every spring we’d need to go inside and find a big ass ball of little newly-hatched snakes. The ranch foreman and I would toss gasoline on the ball and light it. The little bastards would cook real good plus be mucho pissed. If you didn’t do this they’d take over the place.
“For 10 years, we’ve been catching and putting them [Burmese pythons] down humanely.”
“Humanely”? FFS, WHY!?
Just kill ’em, fair means or foul! Other then the Greenies, who cares about “humanely”? And if you’re accosted by a Greenie, then break his/her/its legs & leave him/her/it for the snake.
I love trouser snakes!
Put’em on a bus & send them to Martha’s vineyard.
At one time we lived in a house built in the 1700’s close to the Cape Fear (NC). There was an attached family cemetery. The week we moved in there was an enormous rattle snake blocking the front door. My father dealt with it. Later we discovered the cemetery, not mowed for a decade, was one big rattle snake habitat. The property also had copperheads and water moccasins.
Why bend down to take a closer look? Just blast them.