TERRIBLE MIS-SNAKE!
Globe US|August 07, 2023
Florida hunter wrestles 19-foot invasive python
TERRIBLE MIS-SNAKE!

FLORIDA snake wrangler Jake Waleri made hiss-tory by bagging a 19-foot Burmese python the longest invasive snake ever caught in the Sunshine State!

Waleri, 22, snagged the renegade reptile — which was as long as an adult giraffe is tall — in Big Cypress National Preserve near his hometown of Naples and admits capturing the 125-pound menace was “insane” and “very chaotic!”

He recalls, “At first I just held on to the tail for dear life. And then one of my friends took a net and tried to pin its head down, and we quickly realized that was not a winning strategy.

“It’s the only snake that’s scared me so much that I didn’t know what to do.”

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