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[Kaladin]

Two men managed to catch a massive 15-foot long, 144-pound python in the --------------.

Nicholas Banos and trapping partner Leonardo Sanchez made their phenomenal find while just driving around.

”Second I get out of the car and I look over, it's this big python stretched there where the trees meet the water," Banos told ----------. ”And when we jumped at it, [Sanchez] goes and grabs it by the tail. The second he starts to grab it, the snake starts to b-line into the trees. So, he tells me, ‘Go for the head, Go for the head!'"

After several minutes of wrestling the snake, they managed to put the python into a massive bag and into the back of their van.

”We don't hunt for sport," said Banos. ”We're not hunting to kill. We hunt to remove. Catch and remove. But having to kill it was a little rough for us. We've never really had to do that before. So, it was satisfying but it was also a feeling of...a little bit of heartbreak."

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I edited parts of the story to keep some suspense in the G/A/F game.

Those guys are braver than I am.

 

[Wilsongt]

The O you left in there gives it away

Auostralia, obviously.

 

[PSqueak]

Florida, because one of the guy's last name is Sanchez.

But given the wild life angle to this, it could be Australia too.

 

[capitalCORN]

I've handled live eel before, they were strong as fuck. How they managed to subdue this beast is incomprehensible to me.

 

[Mohonky]

Florida because people buy these burmese pythons, realise they get big enough to eat someone and just dump them in the wild.

We dont really do crushers in Australia, we prefer our snakes more bitey.

 

[Panthalassic]

Florida because Burmese pythons are a huge issue in the Everglades. That's a rally big snake though.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

huuuuge snake, could feed a village.

i love pythons this big. makes me think about ancient snakes that are like as thick as a car

 

[rackham]

Nothing of value was lost. We need snake hunters. Not catchers.

 

[capitalCORN]

Nothing of value was lost. We need snake hunters. Not catchers.

Did snakes eat your family?

 

[Finn of Ooo]

Did snakes eat your family?

Pythons are a majorly invasive species here in the Everglades. They are threatening local wildlife populations.

 

[PSqueak]

In hindsight, if they catch animals/snakes, but they never had to kill a python before, well, i have two questions:

1.- what do they usually do with their catches?
2.- why did they had to kill this one in particular?

 

[Defuser]

No point having G/A/F if you gonna use backwards imperial system lol.

 

[RustyNails]

Did they find Jon Voight inside?

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Florida because of imperial measurements, although my initial instinct was to stay Australia because of the megafauna.

 

[Ogodei]

Could straight up eat a healthy elementary school kid, damn.

 

[Kayhan]

That is a lot of snek meat.

 

[HStallion]

Did some gaffer whip it out?

 

[PSqueak]

No point having G/A/F if you gonna use backwards imperial system lol.

Florida because of imperial measurements, although my initial instinct was to stay Australia because of the megafauna.

It could be an american newsletter reporting international news tho.

I mean i still stand by florida, but it could happen.

 

[Octavianus]

Snakes are awesome.

 

[momshotdad]

somethingsomething my penis

 

[BigAT]

Do we really need another Taylor Swift thread in OT?

 

[Any Questions]

So Wtf did they kill it for?

 

[dh4niel]

Like alot of people, I wondering why they actually had to kill the thing.

 

[capitalCORN]

So Wtf did they kill it for?

Like alot of people, I wondering why they actually had to kill the thing.

Apparently,

Pythons are a majorly invasive species here in the Everglades. They are threatening local wildlife populations.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

So Wtf did they kill it for?

Spoiler

so they won't end up in the stomach of the snake a la the earlier thread

 

[ghostofsparta]

Florida because Banos and Sanchez

 

[ThisGuy]

I wrestle with something like that every morning.

 

[capitalCORN]

I wrestle with something like that every morning.

Your existential dread?

 

[FrontalMonk]

Florida because Banos and Sanchez

When I saw the thread title I was like "glades? glades."

 

[SoRuffShoNuff]

Like alot of people, I wondering why they actually had to kill the thing.

These pythons are destroying the everglades. The mammal population there is being devastated by these snakes. They all need to be eradicated if the everglades is to survive as an ecosystem.

 

[HStallion]

Your existential dread?

His heavy duty body pillow.

 

[mugurumakensei]

I like that these guys lamented having to kill the snake. Sometimes, hunters don't appreciate the fact that you ultimately are taking the life of something living. While we should prioritize the ecosystem and ourselves above animals, it doesn't mean we should celebrate the kill.

 

[HiResDes]

]I like that these guys lamented having to kill the snake. [/B]Sometimes, hunters don't appreciate the fact that you ultimately are taking the life of something living. While we should prioritize the ecosystem and ourselves above animals, it doesn't mean we should celebrate the kill.

I don't think they really did given that later they said it felt so satisfying.

 

[ReAxion]

me over the course of 3 seconds: "why didn't they leave it alo- oh

Spoiler

florida

."

 

[mugurumakensei]

I don't think they really did given that later they said it felt so satisfying.

No, they said it was satisfying but a little heartbreaking. I imagine the challenge was the exciting part. Pythons are really strong. Even with two people, it'd require quite a bit of strength to pin it down for the kill.

 

[Angry Grimace]

No, they said it was satisfying but a little heartbreaking. I imagine the challenge was the exciting part. Pythons are really strong. Even with two people, it'd require quite a bit of strength to pin it down for the kill.

There's two things here:

1) They may not have personally killed it. The "Python Challenge" is a competition that Florida runs to remove invasive Burmese Pythons. All of them are euthanized afterwards; so it gets killed either way and they may mean that they indirectly killed it by turning it in.

2) Whether they can be turned in live or not depends on the specific area (the competition covers all of the state/national park) If not, the official website literally contains instructions on how to properly shoot them in the head.

 

[Dynomutt]

That porcupine would need to be as big as VW!

 

[7DollarHagane]

Can't imagine how strong that thing must be. Just pure muscle. Those guys could have been strangled easily.

Also what kind of bag holds this thing without it breaking loose?

 

[brokenbeans]

Wow that's insane

 

[SchrodingerC]

I fucking hate careless Burmese python owners; those idiots think pythons are cool pets until they get too big and release a invasive species into the wild because they don't want to deal with the snake anymore.

Should've just killed the snake instead.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

me over the course of 3 seconds: "why didn't they leave it alo- oh

Spoiler

florida

."

It's like you don't understand ecosystems and that pythons are wreaking havoc on the everglades. Iguanas are a problem too.

 

[CloudWolf]

I'd be very impressed if this was Germany

 

[Pejo]

I'd be very impressed if this was Germany

I feel like it's never Germany anymore. We need to find a new G location with crazy ass stories.

On Topic, that's a big ass snake.

 

[oti]

Imma say Germany. But it's never Germany.

 

[ReAxion]

It's like you don't understand ecosystems and that pythons are wreaking havoc on the everglades. Iguanas are a problem too.

perhaps i expressed it poorly, but i was saying that i actually do understand that, I just didn't know this was florida at first.