CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

November 8, 2018 JMG Community, Open Thread

The Naples Daily News reports:

With bite marks to prove it, a Florida man caught a whopper of a Burmese python Monday night in Miami-Dade County. Kyle Penniston nabbed the new record for a python caught through the South Florida Water Management District’s Python Elimination Program after snagging the 120-pound snake measuring 17 feet, 5 inches.

Penniston’s hands were swollen from the female snake’s bites during his catch. “I kept fighting till we were both dead of energy,” he posted.

Penniston is part of a team of professional python hunters the SFWMD pays to hunt the invasive species in Collier, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Python hunters have now eliminated 1,859 pythons, stretching a combined length of more than two miles and collectively weighing more than 11 tons, according to the SFWMD.

NEWS: https://t.co/yX1oKKsth9 | Ssssseventeen (and a half) feet of snake sets a record for SFWMD’s Python Elimination Program. pic.twitter.com/jTLPz5QDj2

— South Florida Water Management District (@SFWMD) November 7, 2018