Python Patrol?

Thank you avid 2012 reader Tommy for sending in THIS story..

"MARATHON, Fla. (March 30) -- Juan Lopez reads meters with one eye and looks for snakes with the other. Lopez is a member of the "Python Patrol," a team of utility workers, wildlife officials, park rangers and police trying to keep Burmese pythons from gaining a foothold in the Florida Keys.

Officials say the pythons -- which can grow to 20 feet long and eat large animals whole -- are being ditched by pet owners in the Florida Everglades, threatening the region's endangered species and its ecosystem..."

So cautious (possibly fully aware) pet owners (thank you au2012.blogspot.com) are "ditching" their super friendly python snakes in the everglades in hopes to get rid of them.

Let me tell you Mr. Petowner... you don't just "get rid" of a freaking python... that thing will kill you so fast come 2012 you won't know what to do. It eats large animals breakfast when it isn't even hungry... imagine what will happen when the uprising begins.

"There's no immutable laws of snake catching. It's what works," Fobb said as he demonstrated catching a snake with hooks, bags, blankets and his hands.

"We're doing it in the Florida Keys because we have a lot to protect," Higgins said. "The Burmese pythons that are coming out of the Everglades are eating a lot of our endangered species and other creatures, and we want to make sure they don't breed here."

Where the snakes are breeding is just north of the Keys in Everglades National Park. An estimated 30,000 Burmese pythons live in the park."


UMMMMM .. Excuse me did that just say 30,000 pythons live in the Everglades National Park????

Three words to close this post: GOOD LUCK FLORIDA!!!!!!