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Old 02-18-2013, 4:34pm   #1
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Python-sized problem: Wrong winner named in Florida Everglades hunt

A mistake made by a professor led to the wrong person being named winner in the longest-snake-captured category of the heavily publicized Florida’s Python Challenge.

Once the error was discovered, the real winners were announced Sunday in the permit-holder category: Blake Russ, 24, and Devin Belliston, 26, from Miami, who bagged an 11 foot, 1 inch Burmese python. It was six inches longer than the one netted by the announced winner, Ruben Ramirez, whose snake measured 10 feet, 7 inches.

Ramirez should have placed second, not first.

But as cameras rolled Saturday at the Zoo Miami awards presentation, Ramirez received all the media attention.

An embarrassed Frank Mazzotti, professor of wildlife at the University of Florida, who worked with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to design the challenge and help determine the winner, announced his error Sunday and apologized profusely to the real winners, whose snake was not killed but released back to the wild with a tracking device attached to it.

“I am the one who made the mistake that prevented Blake and Devin from getting the recognition they deserved,” Mazzotti wrote in an email to The Miami Herald, which he also posted on Russ’ Facebook page. “I know how important, and rightfully so, the recognition of who got the longest was.”

More than 1,600 people — with or without permits — took part in the month-long hunt in the Florida Everglades, which attracted national media attention. The hunters were vying for cash prizes for catching the largest Burmese python and the most pythons. The invasive species is eating away at South Florida’s ecosystem.

“It’s pretty exciting,” said newly named winner Belliston, a science teacher at Miami Edison Senior High School.

“The mix-up might have come up because that was the python that we didn’t euthanize so that scientists could place a radio transmitter in it,” Belliston said.

Ramirez, Russ and Belliston are members of a team called the Florida Python Hunters. Russ and Bellinston will share a $1,000 prize for the longest catch. Ramirez will not have to return the prize money he received.

Three Fort Myers buddies won the top general categories in the challenge: Paul Shannon, Jake Carner and Brian Barrows won $1,000 for their 14-foot, 3-inch python and Barrows was awarded $1,500 for catching the most pythons — six — both in the general, non-permit category.

In all, 68 pythons were killed or captured during the Python Challenge.
So they named the wrong winner... and then took the biggest snake captured, in an attempt to rid the ecosystem of an invasive alien species, and released it.

Nice work. Morons.
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This ties in with the pot brownie thread.

Florida is like your elderly parent mowing down produce markets in their 86 Cadillac El Dorado. I don't blame florida, I blame the rest of you for not stepping up and taking away the keys.


When the angry fist of god finally smotes this charmless ****hole I will not be sad or suprised.
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This ties in with the pot brownie thread.

Florida is like your elderly parent mowing down produce markets in their 86 Cadillac El Dorado. I don't blame florida, I blame the rest of you for not stepping up and taking away the keys.


When the angry fist of god finally smotes this charmless ****hole I will not be sad or suprised.
I drive an 08 STS. Get your facts straight Neighbor.
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I drive an 08 STS. Get your facts straight Neighbor.
Lucky... I used to drive an '85 Eldorado Biarittz and never once mowed down a produce market, just two honor-system corn stands and a roadside strawberry guy...
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I'm embarrassed to live in Floriduhhhhh
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Looks like nobody has a clue what's going on:

2 SWFL natives win top Python Challenge prizes - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida

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The two friends from right here in Southwest Florida are of the winners of the Python Challenge for harvesting the most and longest burmese pythons in the general competition. We caught up with them for the inside scoop on their big, rare win.

Normally 30 year olds Brian Barrows and Paul Shannon hunt ducks, but over the past few weeks they started searching for serpents.

"We're amateur hunters. We've never hunted pythons before," Barrows said.

And based on the results of the challenge, you'd never know they were amateurs.

Barrows, from Fort Myers, and Shannon, from Lehigh Acres, won the top two prizes in the general competition of the 2013 Python Challenge.

"We expected just to go out and maybe see one. Just seeing one out there would be fine. We saw as many as we did, it just turned out to be a great time," Barrows said.

Using Shannon's airboat to hunt through conservation lands, their team caught six burmese pythons. One of those snakes was more than 14 feet long. They brought home prizes for the most snakes caught and the longest. They said there was no strategy - just luck.

"We'd hop off the boat in full waders, kind of check the perimeters of some islands and try to find them basking in the sun," Barrows said.

"It wasn't as scary as we first thought," Shannon said.

They made six trips and even National Geographic followed along for a show called Python-A-Thon to air later this Spring.

"They picked five groups to follow. We were just amateurs. We don't know anything about snakes. Once they found out we submitted four... they were quick to look us up and get us on the show," Shannon said.

While the pair now have some fame, and some fortune, they also have something many others don't.

"I got bragging rights for the rest of my life that we were able to win the first python challenge," Barrows said.
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Most of the Chongas running that show have no idea what a python or an Everglade are.
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I think we should just break Florida off and let all those idiots float to some other country.

Jiminy Fn Christmas.

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I think we should just break Florida off and let all those idiots float to some other country.

Jiminy Fn Christmas.

Dude, that's how Cuba was formed way back when Jesus was riding dinosaurs. It won't work.

You need something way more powerful.
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All you wipper snappers better be nice, you may be wearing Depends with us oldies someday.
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Florida is screwed with all invasive species over the last 30 years. Including canadidians.
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Florida is screwed with all invasive species over the last 30 years. Including canadidians.
Please don't start this shit yet again.
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Please don't start this shit yet again.
You've never been to Floriduh have you?

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Please don't start this shit yet again.
You really have no idea.
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Dude, that's how Cuba was formed way back when Jesus was riding dinosaurs. It won't work...
Technically I don't believe that to be correct. Cuba is migrating to the Northeast. I seem to recall reading it came from the SE Pacific region?

Yup, confirmed by this short u-tube I dug up -



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You've never been to Floriduh have you?






We ship them there in the winter on purpose so we don`t have to deal with them.
You`re like our dumping ground the same way Michigan takes our other garbage.
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We ship them there in the winter on purpose so we don`t have to deal with them.
You`re like our dumping ground the same way Michigan takes our other garbage.
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Technically I don't believe that to be correct. Cuba is migrating to the Northeast. I seem to recall reading it came from the SE Pacific region?

Yup, confirmed by this short u-tube I dug up -

Plate Tectonics and the Evolution of Central America and the Caribbean - YouTube


Strange that I can remember such details yet my own name often evades me
Ohhh GREAT!

Now China will say they own that one too...
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