Comments on: Levee Problems Aren’t Restricted To NOLA

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:17:45 +0000

You remember the school official who shot the ‘gator. Other people swore that the ‘gator was being fed, and once you get the first idiot who feeds a wild ‘gator, you have a problem. Once the ‘gator associates food and humans, it will swim towards any humans it sees.

These people are not bright.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:44:02 +0000

well, i was thinking that getting the gun-loving wackos out into the swamps where they could mistake each other for pythons or grab swimming rattlesnakes by their tails would be a real public service, but you’re right about the lead pollution problem.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:44:03 +0000

My relatives had blaze orange blankets for their Holsteins that said “COW” on the sides. You can get them at farm supply places in New York.

I would suspect that half of the local water districts would lose either their storm water runoff or intake pipes to idiots, not to mention farming irrigation systems.

For some reason an old conversation between two locals just popped into my head.

One guy claimed that it was safe to catch diamondback rattlesnakes when they were swimming because they wouldn’t open their mouths for fear of drowning.

The other guy responded – who told snakes about drowning?

I suspect you know that you can certainly get bit by a swimming snake.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:45:44 +0000

Hmm, South Florida python hunting season. It would look a lot like… err… MONTY PYTHON! I suspect we’d find more python hunters killed than pythons, heh.

The biggest problem you’d have, I suspect, would be the collateral damage. Sort of like how some farmers have to put a sign on their cow saying “Not A Deer” to keep them alive during hunting season, heh! Except in your case, I suppose it would be random water hoses and such that would need a sign saying “Not A Python”…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:53:50 +0000

As near as I can tell, Jill, there hasn’t been a decent levee built since FDR and the ones that were built back then haven’t been maintained or up-graded. All part of out crumbling infrastructure.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:18:24 +0000

California has some MAJOR levee problems. Even the Governator has acknowledge it.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:12:07 +0000

They don’t hunt any better than they do anything else and we would have a major lead pollution problem. I’m not in favor of anything that encourages my fellow Floridians to use a weapon in any way [although I have considered an exemption to that policy for suicide 😈 ].

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:31:54 +0000

we could have hunting seasons for python and catfish. the restless native would get to use their guns on something, plus they could sell the hides for exotic leather. ought to work, damn ner wiped out the buffalo ad the alligator like that.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:31:13 +0000

Or to hold the wounds closed on your way to the hospital.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:28:58 +0000

You’re asking the wrong person, because I only eat what I catch and can get on the grill that day. Catfish ends up getting battered and deep fried down here, so you only taste the batter and the oil.

I don’t imagine anyone wants to eat one after trying to figure out how to get the hook out without puncturing yourself.

These fools buy weird animals for pets and then dump them when they get tired of them. That’s why we have major league pythons in the Everglades these days.