Carl Hiassen has the definitive snakes-in-Florida article in today's Miami Herald. Carl's columns are always amusing, but more than that, they are shocking. I turn the pages of the Herald and it's: news, news, celebrity gossip, news, news, TRUTH, news--double take, go back, what's this TRUTH doing in a family newspaper?? Oh, that's Carl. Somehow he gets away with it. When the politicians are acting like idiots, Carl writes, "These politicians are acting like idiots." And then he proves it, so it's not libel, just the TRUTH.
I had the idea of doing the research and writing a summary of snake incidents, and I've been saving the current articles in a file. But Hiaasen has saved me the trouble--he's been keeping track for a lot longer. Thanks, Carl, I'll just take the day off.
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I want to forward your comment to Carl--he'll be so happy!
But seriously, I have lived in Florida for 25 years and have never seen one of these big snakes.
My brother lives in Oklahoma. A snake killed one of their dogs. They shot the snake, and hung the snakeskin over the fireplace as a trophy. Florida is not like that.
It's the little snakes that scare me. I saw coral snakes a couple of times while doing yard work as a teena ger in Florida. Pythons you can see and run away from. You don't always notice the little brightly colored ones until you almost step on them.
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