Updates in Florida Animal News
We’ve seen the python invasion of south Florida, and the python hunters of the Everglades. (Hm, that would make a good Discovery Show!) Here’s some recent news:
In this first story, a man steals a ferret by putting it in his pants in Jax Beach. He must have really wanted that ferret! I like to keep biting animals further away from delicate parts of my anatomy. Of course then the thief uses the ferret as a weapon which makes the ferret a special weapon in FL law. And gets an additional charge for the thief too.
And, in Panama Beach, a Fish and Wildlife officer lost a gator at an elementary school. How’s that for a bad day? He took the gator to his daughter’s school for show-and-tell. The gator jumped out of the truck. In more recent news it looks like they found it.
This last isn’t animal, but vegetable. In a protest, some Lantana FL residents are mailing coconuts in an effort to preserve their post office. The residents are saying closing the post office would be nuts, so they’re sending coconuts. But at several hundred coconuts being sent at $4 each, any budget issues may be relieved.