16-Foot-Long Burmese Python Caught On Florida Street

[matcom]

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VERO BEACH, Fla. -- A 16-foot-long Burmese python was captured on a city street after a passing motorist spotted about three feet of it hanging over a curb and called police.

The brown-and-yellow snake was wrestled into a body bag and taken to the home of Vero Beach Animal Control Officer Bruce Dangerfield.

"This is a very irresponsible owner to let something loose like this," he said Thursday of the late Wednesday capture. "Either it escaped -- all snakes are escape artists -- or someone let it loose."

Dangerfield said he has picked up dozens of loose Burmese pythons and boa constrictors over the years, but this was the biggest.

Dangerfield said the responsibilities that come with owning giant reptile become too much for some people. Within a few years, a 20-inch hatchling bought for $100 at a pet store will become a rabbit-munching giant.

http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3568404/detail.html

[ClintonTyree]

1. A snake in the grass.............

it's too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. I'll refrain from further comment.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

2. the biggest snake in Florida is right here in Tallahassee!

Right out in the open and no one does anything about it--just lets it hang around and run the government.