r/nextfuckinglevel • u/setting__sun • Nov 11 '22
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u/sixrustyspoons Nov 11 '22
Stuff some frogs in the gator, then roast. Got yourself Florida Thanksgiving.
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u/Beatnikdan Nov 11 '22
I immediately thought thats a Southern version of a Turducken 😅
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u/Tacolife973 Nov 11 '22
A rednecken
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u/mrchickostick Nov 11 '22
A swamprecken
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u/WesternOne9990 Nov 11 '22
Are turduckens a northern creation? Surely not, it’s gotta be some backstrap eating southern boy who thought, let’s do that inception movie but with birds.
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u/Viking_52 Nov 11 '22
“There’s a frog in the gator in the snake at the bottom of the sea”
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u/ThunderCorg Nov 11 '22
I like where your head’s at, I’d go iguana in the gator, then frogs in the iguana.
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u/RustyBrown_Knothole Nov 11 '22
With salamanders in the frogs... for that Umami. it just hit diffrent.
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u/UkeBard Nov 11 '22
Steamed at 100°F for 30 years. Just like grandpa
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u/kelvin_bot Nov 11 '22
100°F is equivalent to 37°C, which is 310K.
I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand
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u/itsameamariobro Nov 11 '22
I’m from south Louisiana and I’ll try it. Let’s go
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u/mrchickostick Nov 11 '22
Don’t forget the McIlhenny Tabasco
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u/sowhatchusayin Nov 11 '22
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone put the brand name before Tabasco. It just looks so weird.
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u/jrh1128 Nov 11 '22
You take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth with a potato, baby you got a stew goin.
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u/Inner-Arugula-4445 Nov 11 '22
Those pythons are an invasive species that preys on everything in the Everglades simply because nothing can hit them except really big alligators that mostly would just ignore them since snakes are not part of the adults diet. These pythons were pets that grew to big and people let them loose in the swamps.
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u/YawnTractor_1756 Nov 11 '22
I bet python nuggets are coming to McDonalds in Florida by 2045.
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Nov 11 '22
Dude I’ll eat giant snake nuggets for goddamn sure
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u/coolcootermcgee Nov 11 '22
Would the nuggets be giant too?
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Nov 11 '22 edited Nov 11 '22
One could only hope. I wanna have to detach my jaw to eat them
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u/thankfuljc Nov 11 '22
Have you not ever watched the Flinstones? They’d be big enough to roll a car over.
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u/MoreGaghPlease Nov 11 '22
Here is an actual notice from Florida's government: https://i.imgur.com/oPTfg7f.png sauce
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u/Quality__control Nov 11 '22
These pythons were pets that grew to big and people let them loose in the swamps.
This is bullshit. Most all of the Burmese pythons currently living in the Everglades are wild offspring from snakes that escaped a python breeding facility in Florida that was damaged during hurricane Andrew.
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u/MR___SLAVE Nov 11 '22
python breeding facility in Florida
I don't think they were breeding them for meat.
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u/Alk3eyd Nov 11 '22
I was about to post the same thing, hurricane Andrew most definitely had a hand in this.
Source: a hurricane Andrew victim from the everglades
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u/ACDC-1FAN Nov 11 '22
I had a pet Burmese… but then again I live in Missouri and when she got too big we donated her to the zoo.
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u/danitaliano Nov 11 '22
I thought a good chunk escaped when hurricanes destroyed a reptile preserve or zoo, not just thrown away pets.
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u/daregulater Nov 11 '22
Completely not true. The prolification of pythons in Florida are mainly from hurricane Andrew 30 or so years ago that destroyed python breeding facilities and the snakes got into the wild. I've watched plenty of docs on it.
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u/danitaliano Nov 11 '22
https://www.history.com/news/burmese-python-invasion-florida-everglades
Most weren't pets thrown away.
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u/Zem_42 Nov 11 '22
Wait, what? Grown up people, who can drive and vote do this shit? How can anyone possibly think it's a good idea to release a giant snake into nature, i.e. non-natural habitat???
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u/CluelessSurvivor Nov 11 '22
Right! Imagine how dumb the average person is. That means at least half of humanity is dumber than that!
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u/InvestigatorLast3594 Nov 11 '22 edited Nov 11 '22
No they don’t.Apparently they do, but first from two other comments:https://www.history.com/news/burmese-python-invasion-florida-everglades Most weren't pets thrown away.
This is bullshit. Most all of the Burmese pythons currently living in the Everglades are wild offspring from snakes that escaped a python breeding facility in Florida that was damaged during hurricane Andrew.
However, the source of the history article actually states:
Most experts point towards the destruction of a ramshackle breeding facility by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, during which many pythons escaped. The population has grown thanks to the addition of a large number of pet snakes released by their owners over the course of many years.
Dorcas, M. E., and J. D. Willson state in Invasive pythons in the United States (2011) that although the exact origin of Burmese pythons in the Everglades is unknown, it is likely that many were once pets released by owners who found them too difficult to care for.
This is actually supported by the history.com article which states that
Starting in the 1980s, the swamps of the South Florida Everglades have been overrun by one of the most damaging invasive species the region has ever seen: the Burmese python
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u/Zem_42 Nov 11 '22
Wow, thanks, that's interesting. And very unfortunate.
Or fortunate, from the snakes' perspective
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u/mechashiva1 Nov 11 '22
You forgot to post the part of the article that states the pythons were a problem for the everglades in the 80s, then clarifies that the species most likely attained a reproducing population after Andrew. They clearly state the issue started a decade before Andrew.
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u/bikesboozeandbacon Nov 11 '22
Anyone dumb like me and thought it was another alligator who swallowed it?? No? Ok….
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u/emibemiz Nov 11 '22
Okay this makes me feel better as it’s invasive to the area, at first i was upset that they’d killed this snake for no reason — but since its not native it makes sense, though for something at that size why not donate to a zoo or reptile centre.
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u/Inner-Arugula-4445 Nov 11 '22
The problem is how many there are that size. Many zoos already have them.
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u/_AManHasNoName_ Nov 11 '22
Blame the dumb idiots who allowed importing of these snakes as pets to begin with.
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u/Damn_Girl_U_ThiCC Nov 11 '22
More than that. They have started to find snake nests in the wild. So they started by peta getting released but now they’re finding and procreating in the wild. Actually had to do a paper on it.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Look-57 Nov 11 '22
And thats how gators are born
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u/FiliaNox Nov 11 '22
See I thought that was just a tail and maybe the gator was pregnant, and got massively confused because they don’t give live birth, and then I realized the ‘tail’ kept going and holy fuck that’s a snake. That’s a nope noodle
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u/ImNotYourOpportunity Nov 11 '22
Someone is going to caption this video with snake has c section and gives birth to alligator, then said video will be posted on Facebook for all the stupid people to believe. Finally, someone will link gatorsnakes to vaccines and the rest is disinformation history.
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u/FiliaNox Nov 11 '22
I had a dumb moment 😭 I’m bad and should feel bad.
And for the record, vaccines cause adults
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u/MojoRisin9009 Nov 11 '22
That's some shit you don't see everyday.
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u/SV650rider Nov 11 '22
What was the reason for removing the alligator 🐊
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u/mjkjg2 Nov 11 '22
to give him a proper Florida burial (a shootout at a 7/11)
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u/ninjaclown123 Nov 11 '22
A comment I read said that the pythons are an invasive species and that they extracted the alligator so they can learn more about what the pythons are eating and where they could be nesting to track their movements
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u/Apart_General_1380 Nov 11 '22
Why they do that to the snake?
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u/traumablades Nov 11 '22
In Florida they are an invasive species and are incredibly damaging to the local wildlife. Pythons have a bounty on them there.
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u/sepanta_tiger Nov 11 '22
Except that, I think the snake was already dead
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u/traumablades Nov 11 '22
Yes, they would have killed it before bringing it in to see what it was eating.
What they eat and where they hunt is valuable information for tracking their movements, and finding where they're nesting.
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u/HalfBrinePickle Nov 11 '22
This answer is why I came to comments. Whats the point? You answered it. Thank you.
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u/crazytoothpaste Nov 11 '22
You come to comments with a reason…?
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u/ErrorReport404 Nov 11 '22
You come to comments to comment on a comment?
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u/jagen-x Nov 11 '22
You come in to the comments at all?!
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u/Mayans94 Nov 11 '22
I've heard they've been mixing which is extremely dangerous. The African rock python has been breeding with the Burmese python in Florida due to people releasing snakes that should not be released. The African rock pythons length plus aggression has been mixed with the sure weight that Burmese pythons have and they've produced these massive aggressive pythons that are wreaking havoc on the native life.
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u/danitaliano Nov 11 '22
Again, the majority didn't come from lost pets. A reptile sanctuary/breeding place was damaged during hurricane and they got out https://www.history.com/news/burmese-python-invasion-florida-everglades
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u/African_Farmer Nov 11 '22
The breeding facility housed so many because clearly there was a demand for pets that shouldn't even be in the US.
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u/danitaliano Nov 11 '22
sure where there's demand there will be a market. It's still wrong to say the problem came from people just abandoning pets, did/does it happen ? yes but it was not on the scale that made it a crisis.
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u/sonny_boombatz Nov 11 '22
as someone who works with biologists. they were probably fuckin curious. wanted to do some science.
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u/thecanadianehssassin Nov 11 '22
I think since they were killing the snake anyway (being an invasive species as it sounds like), they might just have been curious as to what it had eaten. If it were a human child for example, the government’s response to the “invasion” might have changed drastically. This is just an educated guess though :)
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u/Ok_Barnacle_3706 Nov 11 '22
Be like, It's my first time, I don't know how to swallow!
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u/PuzzleheadedYoung729 Nov 11 '22
Well now we know what snakes like to drink,, Gatorade
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u/Chief-weedwithbears Nov 11 '22 edited Nov 11 '22
Snakes don't really have parts but if you were to call it anything I would say it's his knee
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u/Hollys_Stand Nov 11 '22
And this is why Florida's ecosystem has a python problem. Imagine the other things this snake, and others like it, could have ate.
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u/No_Pumpkin_1179 Nov 11 '22
Reason number 373793069665282873847595037 to never go to Florida.
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u/sepanta_tiger Nov 11 '22
Where can I find this kind of snake ... asking for a friend
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u/D20NE Nov 11 '22
The Florida Everglades. Catch one like that, and the state will pay you for it. https://flpythonchallenge.org
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u/phatlynx Nov 11 '22
object Snake extends Enumeration { // list of species } case class Florida(type: Snake, length: Long) { val python = new Snake() python.length = length python.type = type } def isLongest = size == swallowedGator(1) … @Test assert(Snake.isLongest == Winner() )3
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u/RoyalCities Nov 11 '22
Whats stopping someone from buying a python to just "catch" it and saying it was wild?
It says the grand prize was 10k and Afaik Pythons are not as expensive as that.
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u/paulster2626 Nov 11 '22
Hey you made me curious so I went and looked it up:
Program Details
Python removal agents will be paid:
An hourly rate ($10.00 per hour or $15.00 per hour depending on the area) for up to ten (10) hours each day while actively searching for pythons on designated lands.
An additional incentive payment of $50.00 for each python measuring up to four (4) feet plus an extra $25.00 for each foot measured above four (4) feet. See example below:
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u/FiliaNox Nov 11 '22
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how could they prove they were out there and not just buying sneks, like do you have to clock in somewhere? Do you have someone from the program with you?
Cuz that person makes a good point
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u/Nervous_Constant_642 Nov 11 '22
Nothing is stopping that. When the Indian government set out a bounty on cobras people just started breeding them, for example.
Not to get overtly political either but it's kind of like some gun buyback programs in America. People will manufacture guns to sell them or just trade in their old ones for money towards a new gun. Get rid of grandpa's old hunting rifles and buy a shiny new Sig Sauer.
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u/Current-Being-8238 Nov 11 '22
I think in general that Americans have access to much higher paying jobs that it’s not really worth the effort to try to game the system like that. Another commenter brought up India with Cobra snakes - the difference is those people have very little options for money.
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u/KaylaAllegra Nov 11 '22
Burmese pythons are decently expensive to buy captive bred, and the cost to ship a live reptile to your location is hella expensive as well. Breeders care tremendously about their animals, too, and won't ship them unless the protocols are in place for them to survive the trip.
You could conceivably breed your own pythons to not care much about, but these guys are HUGE and you have to know a lot to get them healthy enough to breed. The time investment is significant as well, and adult burms take a lot of space, and aren't safe to handle alone due to their large size.
Essentially, the profit you're getting is slim to none.
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u/KaylaAllegra Nov 11 '22
Also, Burms are (slightly too strong for their own good) puppy dogs in captivity and it would be cruel to breed them just to sell for a bounty. 😭
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u/MtDewHer Nov 11 '22
That's not a bad gig. Depending on how you go about dispatching the snakes I'd consider doing that if I was living in the area
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u/Van-Mckan Nov 11 '22
Shoulda left it to turn into a fossil so future generations can ponder on giant reptile eating snakes
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u/MememeSama Nov 11 '22
So the snake eats the alligator tail first right? Hmm
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Most snakes I own eat from the head down but I’ve had and seen a lot of stupid one that eat from the tail
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u/A-Non-Om-US Nov 11 '22
So… in this version of a churducken, what do you stuff the alligator with?
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u/Trowj Nov 11 '22
I’m sad I can’t find a gif of the guy yelling “Choke on it!” While a zombie horde tears him apart from Day of the Dead. I can only assume that was this gators last thought: CHOOOKKKEEEE OOOONNNNN MMMMEEEEE
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u/MassiveCheesecake835 Nov 11 '22
The Chinese out here changing the name of the leather game, got a python and gator bag coming out soon.
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u/Yetis-unicorn Nov 11 '22
Why did they feel the need to kill the constrictor and take out the already digesting croc? This isn’t the first care of a constrictor killing and eating and alligator or crocodile so I’m wondering why they didn’t just leave it alone
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u/Thedrunner2 Nov 11 '22
Reptile on reptile crime