The SF Gate article from above has a wide assortment of entertaining, frustrating, and REALLY stupid comments.

Here is my favorite:
>>>Our greatest concern should be the inter-species breeding that will occur between these pythons and the rattlesnakes that live in the high deserts and in the Sierras. The largest verified rattlesnake measured was six feet long. After inter-breeding with these pythons, we will have rattlesnakes twenty feet long. N.B.: The pythons lay 100 eggs at a time. If only ten of these pythons are successful in crossing the Sierras and inter-breeding with the native rattlesnakes, there will be 12,000 giant rattlesnakes invading San Francisco in 12 years. For more details, see Laurence Klauber's "Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind." UC Press, 2nd edition, 1972.

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