If you won’t listen to me maybe you’ll listen to Jon Stewart. We’re all going to die!
By the time I searched for the old posts and added “burmese python” tags to them so things would be neat and tidy for this post, I forgot what else I was going to say. I do want to point out that this has been a problem for over twenty years and it isn’t just about some snakes who escaped from a pet store in the last hurricane.
I’m once again curled up in the fetal position thinking about how we’re going to be devoured by giant snakes, which makes it hard to type. This is how I start most days, though, so I’ve found ways to work around it.
*sigh*
I’ve spent thousands and thousands of hours in the Everglades and the only Python I’ve seen is the 19 foot Burmese we have on display at work(largely because it was taken off the hands of a jackass who was going to release it into the wild.) They’re are too many and it is a problem for the south Florida ecosystem – and specifically the mammals they eat – but the idea that we will be over run is stupid. God be praised for making raccoons who can turn their attention from our garbage cans and eat the eggs of these slithering bastards.
Much of the panic was started when the USGS published a map of potential Python breeding range IF – global warming continues at the current rate for the next 50+ years. It was later retracted or at least qualified with more clarity.
Oh fuck it – I hope the snakes take over.
yer always raining on my parade!
haha – fantastic – I do my best to ruin everyone’s day it would seem.