Comments on: Giant Black Snake Sighted

By: Rogutaan

Rogutaan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:20:19 +0000

Apparently its just in Tampa then >.>

There’s been at least 4 reports that I remember them killing the gator in.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:28:24 +0000

I can say that, when a gator (about eight feet long, I think) took up residence in a canal running behind our residential area in Vero Beach, FL, around 1975, the state guys did catch it alive and ship it somewhere. I didn’t understand why they even bothered, since the canal bank was a good ten or fifteen feet high and very steep, but someone must have thought it a threat. When a much rarer crocodile turned up on the beach side of town, it was trapped alive with the announced intent of releasing it in the Everglades, although the animal foiled the scheme by escaping and never showing its snout again.

By: Rogutaan

Rogutaan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:49:24 +0000

Geh forgot to mention those “menace” alligators weren’t doing anything. I think maybe one of them killed a dog or something. They just happened to be a in public place that “shouldn’t” have alligators.

By: Rogutaan

Rogutaan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:46:22 +0000

Yeah, but this is in Florida. Florida’s idea of stopping anything is to kill it. Thats why I hate living here.

Alligator somehow got inside a woman’s house. Instead of trying to relocate, they kill it. There were other stories about alligators deemed “menace” or something similar, they killed them too. I know we’re talking about a snake and not a alligator, but I highly doubt that means anything.

With 90% accuracy you can pretty much say if they find it, they’re going to kill it.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:04:21 +0000

Galea:

Maybe I misread but I don’t quite think anybody was talking about killing the snake. They called out a “trapper,” not quite a “hunter.” Smith just wants to “see something done,” she does not say what that was. The trapper did not talk about killing the snake.

It’s quite natural to be scared of a 15-foot snake. At least that is what I would act like.

Anyway, good story. That is truly a “Boss Snake.”

By: Galea

Galea — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:34:55 +0000

Snakes, gators, panthers, bears; these are all possible animals that can cause harm to a person who is somewhere at either the wrong time or where they shouldnt be. Living in an area where these animals exists means your accepting the risks, if you arent comfortable with that, its no excuse to wipe them off the earth. I say deal with it or move.

By: flacats

flacats — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:03:45 +0000

Don’t remember if I shared this story before, but a friend of mine who lives on the Tomoka River in Ormond Beach, FL witnessed a huge snake wrestle an alligator over 7 foot long behind his house on a canal leading to the river. He knew a large snake was around when he saw the shed skin of the creature near his boat a few weeks before he saw this!

By: MattBille

MattBille — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:21:24 +0000

Dave Barry, who has written many columns on how Florida is teeming with lethal and aggressive wildlife, all of it with something personal against him, will no doubt have this on his blog soon.

By: CamperGuy

CamperGuy — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:01:21 +0000

What we need is a python eating cryptoid.

By: Gummerfan

Gummerfan — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:25:43 +0000

There was a report on CNN or Fox that there is an estimated population of 30,000 pythons in the Everglades.