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For those of you that don't frequent multiple forums, please take a look at the thread that TOM CRUTCHFIELD started on Jan 11, 2010. There was a photo added in that showas some guy holding what is clearly a frozen Boa Constrictor. I'm assuming from what I read in the posts that this animal was collected somewhere in South Florida.

This picture needs to be put at the forefront of every discussion with every senator or congressman from here on out.

We need to take the photo and e-mail it to every senator and even Obama so that they see first hand what the wrong environment will do to these animals.

This is the first picture of any frozen snakes from South Florida that I have seen so far. My concern is that now that there is documented proof that what we said would happen has actually happened in this case, will there be more photos that make their way to public view or will any others that exist be covered up by Nelson, the HSUS and the rest of his crew.

I would like to see USARK and/or PIJAC offer small rewards for photo documented proof from South Florida that there are more snakes (especially if they are Burm's) in this condition. These photos should be documented as to where they were taken and if there were any other frozen reptiles in the same area. We shouldn't stop at just photos of any of the 9 ROC snakes. Any other reptiles that could be deemed as exotics that are found frozen like this need to be documented as well so we can stop any future bills similar to S373. These photos need to be archived in several places so we can pull them back up at any time when the situation calls for it.

I say send any of the photos of frozen reptiles to news channels and local papers so they can be published in mass so the entire public can see what happens to these animals when exposed to extreme temperatures even for a period as short as one week.

Chris

I posted it there after seeing on google news. I don't know much more about it then it is clearly a frozen boa-sicle.

Here it is again for those interested.

Funny how they are still trying hard to put a horror movie spin on it by saying the pythons are moving into warmer yards and garages and so on. Even though these snakes are freezing to death and there hopes of horror story lines about pythons invading and taking over the US are dying right along with them, they still try to say they are being pushed farther South and more or less invading homes.
The Snakes were already found on the Keys (upper Key at least)and in the South Glades how much farther South can they go? I suppose next there will be a story about them invading the ocean south of Florida.
Stay tuned for the next episode! Sea Serpents From Hell! LOL
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Noah was the first snake collector. ~Eric~

How can they be heading south if they're too cold to move??? It ain't like they can roll downhill.

Exactly! But they just can't resist taking the story and making a B scary movie out of it. Just when I thought they got about as ridiculous as they could get. I think they need to take a big step back and really look at the crap they are heaping up here. I mean when and were does it stop?
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Noah was the first snake collector. ~Eric~

How can you guarantee that someone won't stage a photo of a snake that was put in a freezer intentionally, or one that died and then placed in a freezeer? If people stage "dumped" snakes, how do you know there won't be staged frozen snakes?

Katrina