Kill a python, win a prize?

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is announcing the 2013 Python Challenge with a goal of increasing public awareness about Burmese pythons and how this invasive species is a threat to the Everglades ecosystem, including native wildlife.

[okimar]

They're wanting them LIVE? Screw that. Kill 'em where you find 'em take the head for proof. Its not like the PYTHONS are endangered... Why do they want them alive? To return them to Burma?

[PRIME RIB]

whats the prize if i do kill one????

[Bama Yankee]

Check this:

http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/12-Year-Ol...

[Syloc]

Dangerous way to earn a maybe buck

[Donkey Estonkey]

Kill, kill, kill...
Sounds like an old Arlo Guthrie song.

[Parden pard]

Donkey Estonkey wrote:

Kill, kill, kill...
Sounds like an old Arlo Guthrie song.

Good call.! I like background music when killing Pythons.It tames the beast they say.Even the alligators smile,,,,,

[Rejoice be Heard]

good eating i hear

[okimar]

Syloc wrote:

Dangerous way to earn a maybe buck

How? You see snake,stand back about 20 feet,shoot snake with shotgun loaded with #5 shot. Dead snake. Cut off head,collect bounty. Sounds simple to me.

[okimar]

Who wrote:

Watch out for PETA nutters though, they're more dangerous and unpredictable than the pythons.
Besides, wouldn't you rather have the pythons than the PETA nutjobs?

Plausible alibi: "I swear Officer,just as I pulled the trigger on this huge f**king python some crackpot threw themself in front of the snake."

ooooops

[Go Blue Forever]

Bama Yankee wrote:

Check this:
http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/12-Year-Ol...

Hard to get past, what would i do, if twelve year olds, had racks like that, when i was growing up....lol....

[Syloc]

okimar wrote:

<quoted text>How? You see snake,stand back about 20 feet,shoot snake with shotgun loaded with #5 shot. Dead snake. Cut off head,collect bounty. Sounds simple to me.

They want them alive.

[Go Blue Forever]

Syloc wrote:

<quoted text>They want them alive.

The video say's dead or alive.....

[Lawrence Wolf]

Who wrote:

Watch out for PETA nutters though, they're more dangerous and unpredictable than the pythons.
Besides, wouldn't you rather have the pythons than the PETA nutjobs?

The PETA "nutjobs" might make an exception in your case.

[macumazahn]

Donkey Estonkey wrote:

Kill, kill, kill...
Sounds like an old Arlo Guthrie song.

"Alice's Restaurant".

[macumazahn]

Syloc wrote:

<quoted text>They want them alive.

I kayak in the 'Glades often enough - I've seen the things a coupla times, in the 8 - 10-foot range. FF&W knows perfectly well that the only way to eradicate the damn' things is to put a bounty on 'em.
It's just not quite PC to do so.

[Go Blue Forever]

macumazahn wrote:

<quoted text>I kayak in the 'Glades often enough - I've seen the things a coupla times, in the 8 - 10-foot range. FF&W knows perfectly well that the only way to eradicate the damn' things is to put a bounty on 'em.
It's just not quite PC to do so.

They should do it anyway, the environment is way more important tan PC....this challenge seem's like they might be slowly growing into it....feeling their way, so to speak....

[macumazahn]

Go Blue Forever wrote:

<quoted text>They should do it anyway, the environment is way more important tan PC....this challenge seem's like they might be slowly growing into it....feeling their way, so to speak....

One can only hope.

[Lawrence Wolf]

Who wrote:

<quoted text>
Ol' Larry "Obastard's 2nd official ass kisser" is here everyone, we can breathe a sigh of relief.

Do something about your mental constipation so you can breathe a sigh of relief, a'hole.
PETA people, who care about our fellow creatures, are the good guys, with one exception, when the creature is you.

[Bama Yankee]

Lawrence Wolf wrote:

<quoted text>Do something about your mental constipation so you can breathe a sigh of relief, a'hole.
PETA people, who care about our fellow creatures, are the good guys, with one exception, when the creature is you.

"According to records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA has killed more than 25,000 animals (mostly dogs and cats) at its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia."

[Lawrence Wolf]

Bama Yankee wrote:

<quoted text>
"According to records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA has killed more than 25,000 animals (mostly dogs and cats) at its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia."

If that is true, it's because no one was willing to adopt them. All in all, PETA's mission is to treat animals with respect, compassion, and dignity, and to protect their rights as fellow forms of life. I fail to see what is wrong with that.