Python Challenge nearly over; where are all the snakes? - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com: Fewer than 48 hours remain in the Python Challenge, and the snake kill count is, wait for it, 50. Same as it was Tuesday. State wildlife officials are calling the invasive-snake bounty hunt a success, but for all the pomp and urgency, some hunters are not pleased.
"I don't feel the epidemic is as bad as they're saying," said Mike Singleton, 39, of Tampa, who participated in the hunt the first weekend, but became disillusioned and quit.
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I read that this morning. 1,500 people, hundreds of thousands of snakes, a month to work with, and all they found was 50 snakes? As the article pointed out, one pregnant female can lay 100 eggs. The whole Python Hunt was a fiasco.
Jeff
It reminds me of the scene in "Jaws" where hordes of people in their boats are out trying to catch the great white shark. Hardly anyone is qualified or has the faintest idea what they're doing--one party even has dynamite! The fact that this fiasco was sanctioned by the state government makes me think if the phrase usually applied to South Carolina: Too small to be its own country; too big to be an insane asylum.
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