Swamp People: Serpent Invasion

I really enjoy Troy, his Sons and the base gator swamp people. But, Zack is such a crybaby. He screams like a child at the simplest things. And when it came to grabbing the snakes he constantly tried to pass the grab to someone else. Nevertheless, the show is fun to watch. I hope that they decide to bring more of the original swamp people on the serpent show and a whole series of episodes with just Troy's family would be pretty cool. Having Willie on the serpent show would be really interesting since he does a lot of snake grabbing on the original show. I would bet he would really be diving into wrestling those serpents.

Why do they advertise as "last day of the season" when there is absolutely no season on Burmese pythons in Florida? It is an invasive species which should never have happened except for idiots who brought the snakes into this country and then didn't take measures to insure that they didn't escape from their custody. It should have been criminalized to have ownership of them in the first place. They need to be hunted, shot and eradicated by any means necessary. They've all but killed the native species in the Everglades. Once a species gets out of control the usual measures of "humane" capture shouldn't apply. The population of pythons in the Everglades should be ZERO.

I'm confused they say the snakes are big and they say they weigh a lot but yet they carry them with one hand and don't look very big compared to their bodies the anaconda was a big snake at least 1314 foot. None of the pythons that they've caught are that big it took both men to carry it and yet they're picking up the snakes with one hand and lifting them over their heads with no problem.

Either I'm crazy or they're the strongest man in the world. And they say that they get four to $500 for the Snakes I don't see how that's possible either Florida does not allow you to claim pythons for money.

First, as others have said, the weights are total nonsense. One dude walks around with a "135lb" snake wrapped around his arm. Uh huh, sure.

Second, probably more importantly, I think the entire execution of this show is totally fictional.

For example: On one episode, two of the guys go to a "bomb shelter deep in the glades".

Okay, so that shelter is actually in Fort Pierce, far north of the glades, and is actually about 20yds from the Florida Turnpike. It was an AT&T communications bunker (you can see "communications" above the door) and was sold sometime between 2013 and 2017 to a data center startup called "Data Shelter" (google it, they have a website with pics and everything). So could this bunker have snakes in it? Technically, sure, but I am 99% sure those snakes were put there for those guys to find. Additionally, the Data Shelter company is clearly peddling a vaporware product as it's been 3+ years since they "announced" what they were doing and it's clearly still full of random crap from the cold war, standing water and other stuff you don't see in an active commecial construction zone, much less anything resembling a "data center" (I would know, believe me).

How about another example: In one episode two of the guys have their snake bags "stolen" by mysterious strangers in a buggy who then drop the bags and run when Dude 1 comes running up at them. This is on a trail that is supposedly abandoned and those two dudes had just encountered a random stranger in a buggy who gave them a "hot tip" on where to find a special bounty. The entire thing reeks of being semi-scripted and plays more like a video game scenario than anything that would happen in real life.

Anyway, it's still mildly entertaining (the yelling "OHH!" every time a snake tries to bite them is a little annoying), it just isn't real.

A suggestion. Use one of those clear plastic police shields when facing the snake. The snake should strike the shield thus no one will be bitten.