Your worst nightmare about what lives inside your walls

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Your worst nightmare about what lives inside your walls - Yazata - Feb 14, 2023

Hell, no!!!

I don't care how low the rent is! I'm not spending the night in that house!!

https://twitter.com/ben_kew/status/1625116538133946371

'pertahanan awam' means "civil defense" in Malay, so apparently this is in Malaysia.

RE: Your worst nightmare about what lives inside your walls - C C - Feb 14, 2023

Apparently "'pertahanan awam" would be replaced by an expletive and one dead snake in rural Florida.

https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/python/removing/

"Nonnative reptiles like Burmese pythons can be humanely killed on private lands at any time with landowner permission - no permit required- and the FWC encourages people to capture and humanely kill pythons from private lands whenever possible. There is no bag limit."

RE: Your worst nightmare about what lives inside your walls - Magical Realist - Feb 14, 2023

How do you humanely kill a python?

RE: Your worst nightmare about what lives inside your walls - C C - Feb 14, 2023

(Feb 14, 2023 08:13 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: How do you humanely kill a python?

I think shotguns can be used now, as long as directed at the head. But python killing competitions apparently don't allow firearms.

Florida: Humane Killing Methods for Nonnative Reptiles
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/python/humane-killing-methods/

Many methods are available to kill nonnative reptiles. Regardless of the method you use, you must ensure the following two steps are completed to humanely kill a reptile:

Step 1: Your method should result in the animal losing consciousness immediately.

Step 2: You should then destroy the animal's brain by “pithing” which prevents the animal from regaining consciousness.

Full-grown deer inside a [Florida] Burmese python

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RE: Your worst nightmare about what lives inside your walls - Yazata - Feb 15, 2023

Giant pythons in Florida?? (Damn, I shoulda known.) It's the jungle there!

Gators are bad enough, but Pythons too???

If they can kill a deer and swallow it whole, they can do it to a person.