A twist on an urban legend

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited October 7, 2005 in Wildlife
Hi you'll,

As a kid growing up in NYC I often heard stories of there being alligators in our sewer system. The legend said that the tiny pet gators found their way there after their owners flushed them away when they started to get too big.

Well I was reading my newspaper this morning when I saw this strange pic.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/M/MH10310051654.html?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

It was a pic of a 6 foot gator that got swallowed by a 13 foot python. The gator burst through the python and both died.

Pythons have been making inroads into the Evergaldes system. They got there when their owner discarded then there after they started to get too big. In the last 2 years over 150 pythons have been captured.
Harry
http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"

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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2005
    I saw the "tail end" of that on the news last night.

    smile, ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2005
    ginger_55 wrote:
    I saw the "tail end" of that on the news last night.

    smile, ginger
    I'm sorry that our TV news didn't cover it.
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • eye-maxeye-max Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins
    edited October 6, 2005
    here ya go Harry
    an update from Winnipeg
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    max
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2005
    Harry now you know why i carry a dirty big knife with me when im out in the scrub shooting alone.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2005
    Thanks for the update Max. the scary part is that the whole problem got started by a few idiots who discarded their snakes that they should never had bought in the first place.
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Harry now you know why i carry a dirty big knife with me when im out in the scrub shooting alone.
    Hi Gus,

    I would want more than your knife if I came upon a 13 foot python in the wild. I would prefer my old grenade launcher from Vietnam. :rambo
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2005
    I'm glad we don't have snakes, alligators or three headed fire breathing dragons over here on the Gulf coast of Florida. We just have the notorious Q-tips and Blue Hairs. eek7.gifrolleyes1.gif


    MM
    Mike McCarthy

    "Osprey Whisperer"

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2005
    Harryb wrote:
    Hi Gus,

    I would want more than your knife if I came upon a 13 foot python in the wild. I would prefer my old grenade launcher from Vietnam. :rambo
    I come across them all the time at work. In winter here they will slither up into car engine bays to keep warm. Had a friend get wrapped up with one we were removing to a safe place & it took 3 of us to get it off him. I was not that far from cutting it to free him as things got out of hand a bit. They have some real serious muscle power !
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2005
    Bout the only shot i have of one of our locals....about 15 foot of pure muscle.



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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Bout the only shot i have of one of our locals....about 15 foot of pure muscle.
    :yikes I'll stick to my little old gators, thank you.
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
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