Two Florida python hunters captured a 10,000-foot-long specimen found in a home in Fort Myers, a city in Lee County.
On Wednesday afternoon, Jane Spencer, the homeowner, saw the reptile slip into a small retention pond about 20 feet from her backyard and immediately called hunters.
It was a 60-pound Burmese python.
“I call it freestyle. As we got closer, it started falling into the water, and at that point we just went for it,” Seth Brattain, owner of Sleth Reptiles, a trapping and removal service, told Local 10. of Animals.
Brattain and his partner found it difficult to put the rope around its head as the animal struggled quite a bit.
“He was doing this number and all of a sudden he flew into the lake, so we literally got rid of the sticks, jumped up and had our butts like that, and we were both struggling to fight it. We pulled him out.” As soon as he was free, it happened. “I turned around and came straight towards me. At the same time, I slipped and lost control. He's right at my feet! I jumped up here, grabbed my pincers, spun around, grabbed.” “I grabbed him by the head and that was it,” Jesse added. Richards, technician at Sleth Reptiles.