Enormous python caught in Florida
It's a new record for the longest Burmese python caught in the wild in Florida.
MIAMI (AP) - Wildlife officials say a Burmese python nearly 19 feet (5.8 meters) long has been captured in Florida.
It s a new record for the longest Burmese python caught in the wild in Florida. The previous record was a 17-foot-7-inch (5.4 meter) python caught in August in Everglades National Park.
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the 18-foot-8-inch (5.7 meter) snake was caught May 11 alongside a road in rural Miami-Dade County.
Wildlife officials said Monday that a Miami man spotted about 3 feet (one meter) of the snake sticking out of the roadside brush. He grabbed it and started dragging it into the open. When the snake began to wrap itself around his leg, he called to his friends for help and then used a knife to kill it.
The python weighed 128 pounds (58 kilograms).
