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What I don't understand is why someone would let a python go in the wild. If you have a critter of this nature you know they are very adaptable to new environments. You also know that in their natural places of origin they are known to eat children.

People that obtain wild animals as pets are extremely delusional in thinking they can domesticate something that will become big enough to put you in the food chain....

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Hopefully they eat all of the New Yorkers moving here

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Lol, I was born and raised in good ole Fla...this is so normal. Living there in the 70’s, was, of course, different. We lived in Coral Springs, which backed up to the Everglades at the time. I have seen an alligator eat a dog, a 25 ft python removed from our next door neighbor’s house, and we had to call the Seminole Indians come and wrestle a 15 foot alligator in our backyard. Now, today, with the influx of people, these guys are going to get aggressive and remember YOU ALL LIVE IN THEIR TERRITORY! THEY DONT LIVE IN YOURS. Be kind. PS people are bound to get eaten, if they play around!🤣🤣🤣

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Compared to deaths from chronic diseases related to metabolic syndrome, mRNA jabs, and murders, gator attacks are absolutely not worth mentioning. For example, maybe 90,000 times as many people die from cancer in Florida each year than are killed by gators.

Why publish this substack article? The only reason I can think of is to directly and indirectly besmirch Ron DeSantis.

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(Haven’t read all the comments yet, but just in case someone else hasn’t already mentioned this…)

Solution to Florida’s alligator problem:

1. Loan them to Texas for the Rio Grande

2. Ship them to Northern Cites for patrol duty

3. Use as guard animals at Walmart & retail stores

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Climate change will soon eliminate them, and a whole lot of us. It's getting colder, and you wondered what all this global (Gorebull) warming was about. Now you know, cold kills a hell of a lot more efficiently than heat.

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Yes you did sir and for that thank you Governor DeSantis needs his people to address this for the children 🇺🇸🇺🇸

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It’s not the gators. They’ve been around forever. It’s the people. Florida getting flooded by all those looking to escape other states. Floridians know the rules about “critters.” Rule No. 1 -- if it’s fresh water, don’t go in because you can be sure there’s a gator already in it. In fact, don’t even go near it. Rule No. 2 -- don’t feed the gators. They can move much faster than you. I see little old ladies in their senior communities giving the grandkids marshmallows to feed the gators. Or, they take the grandkids and their poodle and walk around the lake at sunset. Dogs are a favorite snack for gators. Then they wonder why the kid or poodle got eaten. You can fix ignorant but you can’t fix stupid.

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Alligators and sharks have been in Florida a lot longer than have been humans. It is the pythons that are an introduced species. Kids shouldn't be out in the woods by themselves without adequate survival training.

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"A large python will emerge with a dead child inside it, just wait"...yes but when will the planes start dropping from the sky?

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There is NOTHING greater a Man can do, than to brave danger, make mistakes, and if needed, to apologize. Safety, comfort, and indulgence, are not masculine.

Hail Victory.

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Maybe we should buy a Fauci and Biden a vacation to the Everglades

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Back in the good ole days. When the oil rig crew boats ran at night they would spot gators and run them over. It was great fun listening for the bump.

We swam in those waters. The gators stayed away from humans

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Why isn't DeSantis taking action? Doesn't he have his administration investigating these situations?

Does he even care, since he doesn't spend much time minding our State of Florida?

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Just, WOW.... end times nightmare stuff!

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The one time I went to a conference in Florida there was an alligator alert on the tv to warn families not to let pets and children out on the yard. I guess that is the risk of living in florida. I would not like it. I lived in Cali with the risk of earthquakes and in Iowa with tornadoes. I prefer weather risks and not predator species risks.

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