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Great Boa Constrictor terrorizes NJ Lake
WCBS - TV 2 (NY) ^ | Tracee Carrasco

Posted on 07/12/2014 6:47:51 AM PDT by njslim

A new danger has been lurking in the waters of the largest lake in New Jersey, in the form of a potentially dangerous snake. As CBS 2’s Tracee Carrasco reported, a boa constrictor that could be up to 20 feet long is on the loose around Lake Hopatcong, and neighbors have been worried.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: lake; lakehopatcong; nj; snake
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To: Maceman

Plenty of other cold blooded snakes and animals survive the Winter in Northern states. Also, if you believe that this particular snake could not do so, then we would have to assume that someone dropped a 20 foot snake into the lake just this Spring. As unlikely as this whole story seems, that seems even more improbable.


21 posted on 07/12/2014 8:02:20 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: PUGACHEV
Plenty of other cold blooded snakes and animals survive the Winter in Northern states. Also, if you believe that this particular snake could not do so, then we would have to assume that someone dropped a 20 foot snake into the lake just this Spring. As unlikely as this whole story seems, that seems even more improbable.

Yes, cold blooded snakes do survive in the northeast, because they are able to hibernate. Giant tropical snakes don't do that.

I have kept many pet snakes over the past five decades, including boas and ball pythons. Anyone who has ever kept a tropical snake as a pet knows that keeping their environments warm enough is a critical aspect of their care. In all cases, that minimum temperature is 75 degrees.

Moreover, it is completely plausible that someone dropped a 20 foot snake into an area near the lake, and probably fairly recently given the average temperatures in the Northeast through this past April.

Many (stupid) people keep large snakes and then decide to release them in the wild when they get too big and too expensive to maintain. Or possibly, it escaped.

It is absolutely impossible that a large constrictor survived this past Northeastern winter (or any other winter) in the wild.

22 posted on 07/12/2014 8:10:27 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: njslim

Just post a recipe for chicken fried snake and me ‘n Bubba’ll be right up there.


23 posted on 07/12/2014 8:13:36 AM PDT by jstaff
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To: Ditter
I have heard that these giant snakes are making their way along the Gulf Coast from Florida

I have heard people express concerns this could happen I haven't heard anything like that. The pythons are in the everglades and would have a long ways to go

24 posted on 07/12/2014 8:20:43 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Maceman

yes but they would do pretty good in the swamps of Louisiana. But that is a long ways from the everglades


25 posted on 07/12/2014 8:22:58 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Maceman

“Snakes are cold-blood animals, which means they can’t make their own body heat and thus their body temperature is determined by the surrounding air temperature.”

Darwinian adaptation. Scientists have proven that from one celled animals to humans took only a billion years, so cold blooded to warm blooded should have taken no more than ,what, 10-12 months?


26 posted on 07/12/2014 8:27:37 AM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: plain talk
yes but they would do pretty good in the swamps of Louisiana. But that is a long ways from the everglades

I suspect you are right, based on the winter weather map I posted in support of my assertions.

27 posted on 07/12/2014 8:32:32 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Maceman

This snake has not been positively ID’d.So know one knows what type it is. Seems everyone is assuming its a Boa from some nit wits un professional observation.

potentially dangerous
CBS 2’s Tracee Carrasco(Snake expert,nope)
animal control officers believe the 15- to 20-foot-long boa constrictor is in the water,(Snake expert,nope)


28 posted on 07/12/2014 8:38:16 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Ditter

They’ll never make it past South Louisiana, the land of, “you kin eat that!” If there’s no season and no limits they’ll be wiped out.


29 posted on 07/12/2014 8:38:57 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: CGASMIA68
This snake has not been positively ID’d.So know one knows what type it is.

True. But if it is anywhere near 20 feet, it is not a boa constrictor (which is what the article calls it), although it is certainly a tropical species.

30 posted on 07/12/2014 8:41:06 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: sheana

In my world there is no snake that does not deserve a good killing.


31 posted on 07/12/2014 8:41:51 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Maceman

Also,Its probably not 20 feet


32 posted on 07/12/2014 8:42:58 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Sequoyah101

I have snakes here in the stone walls and they keep the chipmunks,ground squirrels and other rodent populations down.We don’t kill them.


33 posted on 07/12/2014 8:44:28 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Sequoyah101
If there’s no season and no limits they’ll be wiped out.

Ya being very kind there :)

34 posted on 07/12/2014 8:49:02 AM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Most snakes are harmless. My friend Henry is a rat snake. He keeps the rodents under control in my barns and keeps other snakes away. Every year I anxiously await the first Henry sighting. I feel much better once I see him, knowing the rattlers won’t be around.


35 posted on 07/12/2014 8:56:40 AM PDT by Himyar
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To: Himyar

Actually, it depends, we have Freddie who lives in the barn and keeps the rats at bay. He lives there rent free. It’s the cotton mouth that gets up on the seat of the dozer when it gets stuck in the mud that I want dead.


36 posted on 07/12/2014 9:01:22 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: njslim
IT CAN SWIM 25MPH!!!
37 posted on 07/12/2014 9:07:14 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: njslim

This here is Florida.
20 foot boa?
ho hum.


38 posted on 07/12/2014 9:15:46 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
IT CAN SWIM 25MPH!!!

The Snake

39 posted on 07/12/2014 9:34:10 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Sequoyah101

In my world they are all deadly poisonous and deserve to die.


40 posted on 07/12/2014 9:44:37 AM PDT by sheana
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