The Pythons Are Coming!

"What do you suppose would happen if I blew on this end?"

As we all know, or SHOULD know, the Florida swamps and woods are rapidly filling with giant Burmese pythons whose sole desire is to get as far north as they can possibly go and eat any womenfolk they find along the way. The 16 foot Burmese python shown here courtesy of Yahoo News just ate a 76-pound deer, and given that it's a large but not record-setting python, that means some humans, especially human women, are on the menu, so to speak.

Now comes the REALLY bad news. Like most folks, I had always kinda assumed that the warm, swampy environs of Florida and maybe the entire Gulf Coast would be the limit of the pythons' reach. Turns out I was wrong. According to the Yahoo News article, the pythons can survive as far north as Washington, D.C. (seems their native habitat extends as far as the foothills of the Himalayas). And as we all know, Washington, D.C. is well to the north of ALL of Georgia!

And as if THAT weren't bad enough, the pythons are mating with man-eating African rock pythons ALSO turned loose in the Florida swamps by incredibly stupid pet owners. (Sorry, but anyone who buys a Burmese python or an African rock python and then is "surprised" to discover that it grows into a huge, dangerous animal is an idiot, and should be tossed into the swamps along with their pets. Pet store owners that sell them ... same fate. C'mon, they're just enablers.) The result of the cross-mating .. giant, aggressive snakes! All over Georgia!

Pleasant dreams!