Florida man wrestles 17-foot pregnant python

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Florida python hunter Dustin Crum recently nabbed the largest snake ever caught in the Florida Everglades.

Everglades National Park is facing an invasion from Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species on Earth. The adaptable reptile has decimated wildlife, eating anything from birds, to mammals and even alligators.

Crum is working for a state program that pays hunters for killing the invasive snakes. In this case, Crum said he stumbled upon the 16-foot, 10-inch beast by accident.

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Inside the python, officials discovered 78 eggs — or 78 snakes that won't be hurting native wildlife.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/national/article/Florida-man-wrestles-17-foot-pregnant-python-11139078.php

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1. shiver

[SUPman]

2. WOW

I saw my first python here in Thailand today, it was roughly the same size or larger actually, by about a foot. It spat through a pond where I rent after a night of flood waters I assume brought it down from the mountains. This thing was huge, and sounded like myself, almost 200pds splashing in the water, like walking hard. Its' head stood up as I rushed my family across the narrow path walkway that was also flooded. I gotta say, this man has some real guts to wrangle this thing. Just imagine the everglades is now overpopulated with pythons. How soon until they start creeping into everyones homes?