{"id":39249,"date":"2014-06-12T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39249"},"modified":"2020-07-12T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T22:00:44","slug":"oh-georgia-vol-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39249","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Georgia vol. 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-39250 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/superpython.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/superpython.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/superpython-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/dekalb-county-combats-snake-problem-unusual-way\/ngJLm\/?ref=cbTopWidget\"><strong>Long story short<\/strong><\/a>: A DeKalb County community, concerned with the seemingly increasing numbers of poisonous snake sightings in their neighborhood, has decided to authorize a plan of releasing numerous non-venomous snakes into the neighborhood.\u00a0 The rationale is that artificially increasing the overall snake population in the neighborhood will create competition and ultimately drive copperheads away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Long story shorter<\/strong>: Neighborhood plans to release a bunch of snakes into area where there are already a bunch of snakes.\u00a0 Snakes everywhere now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Thank the fuck god I don\u2019t live in DeKalb County, and cross DeKalb County off of my list of potential future residences.\u00a0 The last place on earth I\u2019d ever want to live is in a community that uses snakes to combat a snake problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The problem is that even if the copperheads are driven away, the entire community is still infested with other snakes, and with nature being what it is, they\u2019re going to breed, and their population is going to grow.\u00a0 Your average person isn\u2019t aware of the visual differences between a venomous and non-venomous snake, and they\u2019re going to freak the fuck out when they spot a snake in their yard, regardless of what species it is, and if it\u2019s bite is poisonous or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Or, a truly truly scientific worst-case scenario will occur, and it\u2019ll be like the story of the Burmese python running into the African python in the Everglades, and breeding out some new super species of python that grows to like 100 feet long, can do calculus, and operate a stick-shift vehicle.\u00a0 The snakes released by DeKalb will mate with the copperheads and create some freaky hybrid snake that remains venomous and their numbers grow to make DeKalb County itself into a snake-infested quarantine zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019ll be like the plot of a SyFy original movie, but the carnage and casualties would be real.\u00a0 Sometimes, when human lives are at stake, we as human beings need to stop being so ecological and do what it takes to protect human life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">\/mic drop<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long story short: A DeKalb County community, concerned with the seemingly increasing numbers of poisonous snake sightings in their neighborhood, has decided to authorize a plan of releasing numerous non-venomous snakes into the neighborhood.\u00a0 The rationale is that artificially increasing the overall snake population in the neighborhood will create competition and ultimately drive copperheads away. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Georgia vol. 84<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,15,8,49],"class_list":["post-39249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39251,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39249\/revisions\/39251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}