“Vacation Turned Nightmare: Florida Man Discovers Unwelcome 16-Foot Predator Lurking in His Home!”
It almost set a record
Once they were able to get the massive snake from under the house, Bergeron’s team discovered the python was 16 feet long and weighed 165 pounds.
With that in mind, it’s hardly surprising that it took five men to hold it up like this.
For those curious
But while this 16-foot behemoth almost matched the record for the largest python captured in the Everglades, there was one that was just a little bigger.
Just three months before this discovery, a python measuring 17 feet and weighing 140 pounds was caught in the embattled region.
King of the hill
As if the size and extensive diet of the python weren’t enough to deal with, the Burmese python has no natural predators in Florida.
That means that, left to their own devices, these pythons could devour everything else in the area.
The biggest problem
Unfortunately, that’s not the worst of it, as these pythons are also known to lay dozens of eggs at a time.
Indeed, the record-breaking 17-footer was carrying 73 eggs at the time of its capture.
Just in the nick of time
And that was a concern for the 16-footer Bergeron captured as well, as the campers also found about 50 eggs under the house.
Worse yet, most of them were about to hatch.
