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Very good response. I was very lucky also that I hadn't got bit in the face, that might have been a bit more messy. I was thinking of the biggest reticulated python I had ever heard about or seen. Seems there was some fellow from SW Florida that had one and it was huge, at the time I saw it and it took like 10 guys to move it at that time. I thought I heard it had killed or badly injured someone later on, but I can not remember the details for it was a long time ago.
Recently while watching YouTube, I ran across an article about the troubles with Burmese pythons in the everglades and last year someone caught a Burmese python that was 17 feet and 7 inches long, and 1 foot wide, and was carrying 87 eggs. They said it was the biggest python, this group had caught so far.
They said on the video, that lots of these pythons were someones pet snake and when they grew too big, the owner set them free. Some who own these snakes do not have the proper permits to even have them and so short of giving them away, because they can not legally sell them, it is fact they let them go by putting them out in the woodlands and swamps. These pythons grow huge on a diet of deer and birds, fish and other reptiles. Burmese pythons can grow up to 25 feet long and Reticulated pythons can grow to up to 35 feet long. Not something most of us would want to come across out in the woods.
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