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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Jul 24^th, 2014 at 11:15pm Giant Snakes in New Jersey!!!!! The News is saying that a 16 foot Anaconda is swimming around in Lake Hopatcong. Keep your dogs, cats and small children inside folks.
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Masiakasaurus Forum Moderation Offline mah-SEE-a-kah-SOR-us Posts: 6069 Alabama, USA Gender:	Re: Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Reply #1 - Jul 24^th, 2014 at 11:29pm But the rattles?
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squirrelslinger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline peace through superior firepower Posts: 2870 Ky, USA Gender:	Re: Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Reply #2 - Jul 25^th, 2014 at 1:10am .17 hornet to the head. Problem solved. Or if you want to overkill the crap out of it, .50 BMG.
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AncientCraftwork Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2403	Re: Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Reply #3 - Jul 25^th, 2014 at 11:37am Nah, don't kill it. Why would you want to kill it? Catch it and give it too a zoo or release it somewhere els in the wild. Such a big snake should be cherished.
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Oxnate Senior Member Webmaster Offline Crus de agnus Dei con quilon menthae. Posts: 331 Minnesota Gender:	Re: Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Reply #4 - Jul 25^th, 2014 at 3:33pm AncientCraftwork wrote on Jul 25^th, 2014 at 11:37am: Nah, don't kill it. Why would you want to kill it? Catch it and give it too a zoo or release it somewhere els in the wild. Such a big snake should be cherished. Only kill what you're going to eat. Snake can taste pretty good. But a snake from Jersey? Naw.
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Reply #5 - Jul 25^th, 2014 at 5:03pm

Oxnate wrote on Jul 25^th, 2014 at 3:33pm:

AncientCraftwork wrote on Jul 25^th, 2014 at 11:37am:

Nah, don't kill it. Why would you want to kill it? Catch it and give it too a zoo or release it somewhere els in the wild. Such a big snake should be cherished.

Only kill what you're going to eat. Snake can taste pretty good. But a snake from Jersey? Naw.

snakes in general taste good.
a snake is a steak!
Except cobras...

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Masiakasaurus Forum Moderation Offline mah-SEE-a-kah-SOR-us Posts: 6069 Alabama, USA Gender:	Re: Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Reply #6 - Jul 26^th, 2014 at 12:09am A 16 ft anaconda loose in New Jersey is not a catch-and-relocate kind of problem, it's a put-it-down-before-it-hurts-someone kind of problem.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Reply #7 - Jul 26^th, 2014 at 8:00pm Yup, Ratman said he saw a rattle snake about that length if I remember correctly.
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Bill Skinner Forum Moderation Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Reply #8 - Jul 26^th, 2014 at 8:31pm It's an invasive species along with boa constrictors that well meaning fools introduced into an ecosystem that has no predators for it, they are taking over the Everglades and the coastal marshes and moving north. I generally shoot every one I see. And no, I don't eat them.
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Reply #9 - Jul 28^th, 2014 at 6:57am

Masiakasaurus wrote on Jul 26^th, 2014 at 12:09am:

A 16 ft anaconda loose in New Jersey is not a catch-and-relocate kind of problem, it's a put-it-down-before-it-hurts-someone kind of problem.

yes it is.

That's not big enough to eat a person.

in the wild anaconda's are pretty shy of people.

Catch and put in a zoo.

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Reply #10 - Jul 28^th, 2014 at 9:13am

^^

The only problem with that is that anacondas have become well established in the US. We aren't necessarily talking about a dozen or so unwise releases, we are talking thousands if not more of them at this point in the US. The everglades are quite large and they are breeding like crazy out there.

Just be glad no one has (yet) released a breeding population of fer de lances. I imagine that would cause some problems.

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Reply #11 - Jul 29^th, 2014 at 11:48am

The snake I saw, along with three members of my family, at various times was definitely a rattler. I hold no grudge against anyone who doesn't believe me. If I hadn't seen it, close up, several times, with other eye witnesses, I would probably doubt it too.
There would be no need to kill a sixteen foot anaconda. Such a snake would be very easy for a man of normal strength to handle. My Albino Burmese Python was bigger than that and many times I handled him when he was powerfully angry at me. My Colombian Red Tailed Boa was almost that big. She was a sweetheart. Fearing and wishing to kill such a creature, that really only wants to be left alone, is unreasonable and indicates a lack of knowledge/experience with such animals. He has much more to fear from you than you from him. Besides, once summer is over he's a goner anyway.

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Reply #12 - Jul 29^th, 2014 at 12:49pm

That's a 150lb to 200lb water born constrictor whose natural prey includes capybara and white tailed deer, it is loose in a suburban neighborhood, and its behavior has been modified by being in captivity. All due respect for those that want to save it, but an anaconda capable of eating capybara is more than big enough to drag an adult human being into the water to drown them and such attacks have been recorded here and in their native environment. It's just not worth the risk to save members of an invasive species that is not endangered, IMHO. And that doesn't even address the fact that exotic snakes (and European starlings, armadillos, kudzu, poisonous toads, wild boar, Asian carp, zebra mussels...) are destroying native plant and animal populations in the areas where they've been introduced. Conservation includes culling problem species, even if you aren't trying to eradicate them all.

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Pikåru wrote on Nov 19^th, 2013 at 6:59pm:

Massi - WTF? It's called a sling. You use it to throw rocks farther and faster than you could otherwise. That's all.
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perpetualstudent Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1405 Gender:	Re: Holy cow!!! RatMan was right!!! Reply #13 - Jul 29^th, 2014 at 5:59pm I lean towards Masi here. No, probably won't kill a full grown adult. Now. 10-13 year old boys? A couple of dares, a bite, and by the time adults get on the scene the ribs and internal organs crushed. I know they have a hunting season in FL for the Constrictors that are taking over the everglades.
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Reply #14 - Jul 30^th, 2014 at 12:37am

perpetualstudent wrote on Jul 29^th, 2014 at 5:59pm:

I lean towards Masi here. No, probably won't kill a full grown adult. Now. 10-13 year old boys? A couple of dares, a bite, and by the time adults get on the scene the ribs and internal organs crushed.

I know they have a hunting season in FL for the Constrictors that are taking over the everglades.

yea, its also legal to shoot wild pigs.

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