If You Are In America,

how about doing some thing a little bit different this weekend?

like python hunting? Python Challenge 2013, a month-long event sponsored by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is open to hunters and non-hunters alike, all you have to do is pay a $25 entry fee and take an on line training course, which consists mostly of looking at photographs of both the targeted pythons and protected native snakes to learn the difference, the state wildlife agency is offering prizes of $1,500 for the most pythons captured and $1,000 for the longest python,

in case you are wondering the one you have to beat was a Burmese python that was found in Florida last year which set the record as the largest ever captured in the state at 17-feet, 7-inches, the snake weighed nearly 165 pounds (75 kg), FWC spokeswoman Carli Segelson said the number of registered contestants reached about 500 this week and was growing, with people coming from 32 states, so starting today hundreds of amateurs armed with clubs, machetes and guns are going to the Florida Everglades, and who knows after the month is up you could be a thousand dollars or two the richer!