Dusty “The Wildman” Crum, a champion python hunter, captured the biggest snake of South Florida’s Water Management District’s current python eradication. He brought in a python that measured 16 feet and 10 inches long, and weighed 130 pounds. The Management District pays hunters $8.10 an hour for snake hunting, but adds an on-the-spot payment of $50 for pythons measuring up to 4 feet and an extra $25 for each foot measured after 4 feet. Mr. Crum earned $375 for his snake. The local record was a snake measuring at about 18 feet, two inches in length.
* Mr. Crum says he’s going to use the money to pay for medication for a bad case of the Willies.
* Not to alarm anybody, but the snake was caught in the produce aisle of a Publix supermarket.
* The snake weighed 130 pounds, but was much heavier before they removed the goat from inside it.
* “Python eradication”? In Florida? Good luck with that.
* The Water Management District is dreaming big.
* 16 feet of snake, or as they say in North Korea, “dinner for a week.”
* I’ve got your giant snake right here.
* Okay, but a snake that long can lay up to 100 eggs so let’s not get too excited.
* That could lead to 1600 more feet of new snakes.
* That’s over 5 football fields of them.
* The best chance we have is to bring in something that eats baby snakes to survive.