The Simpsons did it!
Senator Bill Nelson has called for a hunt targeting the pythons that have infested the Florida Everglades.
“They are threatening endangered wildlife there,” the Democratic lawmaker wrote to his former Senate colleague, “and, Lord forbid, a visitor in the Everglades ever encounters one.”
Also Tuesday, another lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., introduced legislation to allow python hunts in the Everglades.
Nelson has estimated 100,000 pythons are living in the Everglades, an invasive species population believed to be the result at least in part of pets being released into the wild when they grow too big. “They now have become such a problem in the park,” said Dan McLaughlin, Nelson’s spokesman, “you could spend the next 10 years setting traps.”
Nelson is obviously a bigot. Pythons come to eat the small animals American snakes won’t eat. And they love their children.
Yeah, but Lars, they use our healthcare and they sell drugs to gators.
Sound like fun. Who’s up for a hunting trip and a new pair of snake skin boots?
Why is it always bad things that get loose and cause havoc? You never hear about a plague of kangaroos or koalas. Pythons, killer bees, that mollusk-thingy that’s clogging up stuff in the Great Lakes, kudzu and Barbara Streisand.
For God’s sake, won’t someone release some cool species around here?
I concur. A plague of pandas rampaging around the countryside would be quite entertaining.
Rabbits are a serious pest problem in Australia.
oh, whacking day
oh, whacking day
beloved snake-skull
cracking day
we’ll break their backs
gouge out their eyes
their evil thoughts
we’ll pulverize
oh, whacking day
great whacking day
God shed his grace on thee…
It’s pythons down there, but all along the SW part of the state on the Gulf side, there are huge monitor lizards, which is an invasive species, running around eating dogs and cats. They’re on the islands out there, too. The problem with these invasive species is that they’re evasive. Cable and the dish guys won’t go in the crawl-space under the houses to make proper connections, because they’re afraid of snakes.
Weird Al did a Weasel Stomping Day song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOAh9RDIfI The boys find it hilarious.
@JS, they do have a problem with kangaroo gangs down under. Those things are not so cute when stomping your crops. They don’t eat children but they can cause havoc.
Weird Al rules — thanks for the reminder, Tracy!
Most people in the outback put a roo bar on their vehicle. They become a road hazard at night. Cute buggers, though.
They are also called Bull bars, because of the open ranges of the cattle stations there. Sad but true.
http://www.adelaideutes.com.au/Bull_bar
As best I can see regarding invasive species turned loose on the land, libs are the most dangerous and invasive. They’re like a second wife…they want to run your life, then ruin your life.
Disclaimer: This does not necessarily apply to the Colonel. Only used as an example for discussion purposes.