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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: hatcha on April 13, 2013, 11:53:09 am

Title: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: hatcha on April 13, 2013, 11:53:09 am
Tour guide in Florida "wrestles" and kills python in front of group of tourists.  I've not watched the video as I found reading the report strange enough to put up with...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/florida-snake-killed-tour-guides-video-075105747.html#nt324Sm

Your thoughts on this?
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: chamookman on April 13, 2013, 01:59:11 pm
Don't have a problem with it at all. Invasive species of all sorts  are ruining the natural balance of things, it's a sore spot for Me. Bob
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: hatcha on April 13, 2013, 02:52:27 pm
Oh I'd be on the same side of the fence as you with regard invasive species - the Sika deer is watering down the Irish Red deer's bloodline here in Ireland but they won't label the Sika as invasive, just "non-indigenous".

I was referring more to the "spectator sport" that the tour guides made of the act.

I'm all for the killing of annoying, invasive animals.  Matter of fact there's an English couple live next door to me that remind me of that every once in a while...  ;) :D

(disclaimer: The above is not meant as a reflection of all English people - just the ones living next door to the author.)
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: JackCrafty on April 13, 2013, 03:18:51 pm
If I was on that tour I would have asked for the skin.   >:D  After applauding, of course.  ;D
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: JW_Halverson on April 13, 2013, 03:46:23 pm
About the time the outcome was decided, I would have been whipping out the flint and steel, collecting firewood and skewers, and digging in my pack for my ever-present baggie of dry rub.  Hopefully, someone would have had some cold amber beverages to go with the soon-to-be shore lunch. 
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: mullet on April 13, 2013, 04:44:37 pm
Well,,, those boat tours are usually boring as hell. I spent all day Tursday running an airboat and the next three weeks wil be the same. Nothing but gators, birds, and little snakes, just another day in Florida ::) ;D. I hope they tipped him well. :)
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: Lemos on April 13, 2013, 06:40:43 pm
I'm all for invasive species removal, and hide use and defiantly shore lunches, I do have a problem with the death of an animal as a spectator sport for the amusement of tourists. Seems a little in poor taste.
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: PrimitiveTim on April 13, 2013, 09:15:49 pm
I probably would have done the some thing except brought it to FWC live.  Snakes aren't nearly as dangerous as folks make them out to be.  I've handled snakes that size that wanted to kill before too.
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: Roy on April 13, 2013, 11:25:50 pm
My ass would have stayed in the boat:)
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: osage outlaw on April 13, 2013, 11:39:36 pm
Chicken  ;D
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: Roy on April 13, 2013, 11:53:28 pm
Nuff outta you boy:)
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: Gus on April 13, 2013, 11:59:54 pm
Well they do kinda taste like chicken Outlaw...  :)

But I'd have taken it whole, no sense messing up the skin just to cut its head off...
I have a Grill and or Deep Fryer with me when I travel.
And Cold Beer and Tequila.

-gus
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: mullet on April 14, 2013, 04:14:30 pm
I'm all for invasive species removal, and hide use and defiantly shore lunches, I do have a problem with the death of an animal as a spectator sport for the amusement of tourists. Seems a little in poor taste.
Lemos; from our experiance down here, most tourist do have poor taste and the gators agree. ;D
I probably would have done the some thing except brought it to FWC live.  Snakes aren't nearly as dangerous as folks make them out to be.  I've handled snakes that size that wanted to kill before too.
Tim; The FWC would have just made a pair of boots out of them, too. ::)
Title: Re: I'm not sure what to think of this...
Post by: PrimitiveTim on April 14, 2013, 04:52:12 pm
Tim; The FWC would have just made a pair of boots out of them, too. ::)

No they would have taken data on it, maybe taken blood samples, etc.  That's what they want us to think anyway.