A bounty has been the answer for 10 years. This has been PETA´s fault from the beginning.

Lots of pictures.

Best quote from a participant...
"It´s advantage-snake."
You get to look all day and not find any.

A bit of British levity to accompany this one...

Recall that a few decades ago, we were introduced to the comic troupe...
"Monty Python"

Many years later, there was a movie from the UK which was entitled...
"The Full Monty"

Until that latter movie, most of us did not know of the Brit expression, The Full Monty.
(for those unfamiliar, it means full frontal male human nudity)

Took quite a while, but it finally occurred to me what the longstanding inside joke was.

The comic troupe called themselves "Monty Python" probably to suggest that they
had a "Full Monty" the size of a python.

Wouldn´t you figger that was the intention?
Not quite by accident, that name, right?
Just sayin´...

LOL, some dressed in camoflauge, sure hope no one gets shot. Obama and Biden will have to convene a snake summit and why shooting pythons is the fault of the NRA.

Why is a permit even required to kill those imported pests?

When infestation of the Everglades and elsewhere became a serious problem, were these banned from importation as pets?

People in Florida should not be required to pay anything to get a python hunting permit, what should be happening is that the State of Florida should be paying the people a bounty for killing those snakes.

The first 3 words from asspress " An armed mob..."

There´s a reason you´re being dropped by many leading newspapers, asspress didn´t you notice?

Due in part to the irresponsibility of some people having "exotic pets," this problem now exists. Laws against it don´t work because they´re so east to break, and you ain´t gonna teach common sense.

Does the popular press ever use the word "ecosystem" without using "fragile" as an adjective? I mean, there are such things as "robust ecosystems."

Wonder if they can bag monitor lizards as well?

They´ll shoot their eyes out!

Note to self: don´t pack the python print skinny jeans for the upcoming FL trip.

Beautiful snake. But they don´t belong in FL. Problem is that they (and several other released pet pests) have probably been there too long to fully eradicate them from the swamps.

Agree with #7, FL should simply have an open bounty on the invasive species and not require a permit to kill them.

So, does this mean the end of Charlie Crist??

I just drove through the Everglades the other day and their gonna need more like 800,000 people to make a dent. That is no small swamp.

FTA: "It´s very safe, getting out in the Everglades. People do it all the time."

Many come back, too. ´Gators and cougars aren´t always hungry....

The camo is probably pointless, as the snakes detect by sense of smell ["tasting" the air with tongue-flicks] and seeing movement.

FTA: The state is offering cash prizes to whoever brings in the longest python and whoever bags the most pythons by the time the competition ends at midnight Feb. 10.

Heard the same inn a radio report today. It surprised me that there wasn´t a prize for highest total weight. OK, herpetologists -- better to take 10 honkin´ big ones out of the wild, or 12-14 itty-bitty ones?

FTA: (The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn´t approve of the [decapitation] method, though.)

What do they recommend? That the snakes die of old age?

#2: That first photo is powerful, really tells a story.

#5: Why? Easy. $

#10: If asked, the pythons probably would say they have a "robust" ecosystem.

An armed mob...really?...

All I had to do is read the first three words and I knew this was an ap article......"An armed mob".

These pests can be found all over Florida and they´ve been spotted in Lake County where we live. I was planning on putting in a doggy door in the screened patio, but after killing 2 rat snakes and a racer snaker (all within a month of installing my patio), I realized I´d end up getting much bigger snakes so I nixed that idea. I have enough problems with the little ones getting under the screen door between the paver seems.

I´m with everyone else -- Florida should be paying people to kill these pests, not requiring people to pay for permits. Let them make money off it by selling the skins.

Also, I thought Florida outlawed Pythons and Boas as pets, but my local Petco has them for sale. Not that outlawing them would solve the problem. It´s illegal to keep an alligator and they find them during drug raids all the time. I just don´t get why people think snakes are pets? Ewwww.

Seemed like a grand plan until some reptile specialist said on the news that he didn´t expect them to find more than 25.

Exotic pets should be outlawed.
Period.

Aren´t they doing this in the wrong place? They should be up here in DC getting rid of the really bad snakes destroying our "fragile politicosystem."

Gosh, these people are using assault weapons on these snakes!

I love to hunt but I don´t know if I´d want to hunt these snakes. They can do a human some real damage. I have been alligator hunting a few times and I always had the feeling the ´gator was hunting me. Yes, I was well armed!!

All dead snakes should be air expresed to the WH so they can be with their breathern.

Well, I am that rare creature, a woman who likes snakes. It´s just that this particular snake does not belong in the Everglades and needs to be hunted out.

Just curious. People eat rattlesnake, so would the meat from these guys be edible?

I´m all for getting rid of pythons in south Florida, but the poster bragging of killing beneficial and harmless snakes makes me sad. There is just no lower limit to stupidity, is there? Even the most phobic dimwit could shoo a rat snake away with a broom, and a black racer is generally headed quickly in the opposite direction as soon as it perceives a threat. Guess theposter prefers to be overrun with mice and rats. So foolish.

Well sorry you don´t approve me killing snakes. The racer kept getting in my pool where my kids swim and I´m not sharing my pool and patio with snakes. I´m terrified of snakes and I´m not spending hours trying to shoo one out the screen door while it runs all over the patio and pool - it´s an 1800 square foot area. Oh, I know, I´ll stand there and ask it to please leave the pool area immediately. Boo hoo.