Funds for what, exactly?
Animal welfare - native wildlife.
I was just continuing the joke, but feel free to PM me if you seriously want details 
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To be fair, when I said “event”, I really meant fundraiser.
Here’s my “Ask the guy..” threadabout it the community garden/food back I’ve run fundraisers for.
Hmm. I’m swamped for the rest of October, but maybe there are enough of us to have a mini-dopefest, and we can chat nature and charity.
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Digital, organize away! Local dopers beware, we may actually meet up IRL!
(Can there be an alcoholic component?)
OK, sorry, end of hijack. Still waiting for the medical examiner to report on the cause of death. I suspect “ate too much too fast” rather than "eww – roaches!!"
Might be a medical examiner’s dream come true.
[ Dr. Mallard] Mr Palmer, did you know that roach in latin means “little fiesty one”? This reminds me of a fasinating similar case during the time I was in North Africa with the French Foreign Legion… [Ducky]
The Year 2052
[Dr. Palmer] Ms Jones. Did you know that roach in latin means “little fiesty one”? I learned that years ago from my mentor Dr. Mallard. We called him Ducky though. Well, not me, I still called him Dr. Mallard. We had a case just like this back in I think 2012 or so. And that was the year the Myans said the world was going to end. Anyway Ducky’s mother had these nasty little Yorkies and one time…wait… have I told you this story before?..[Golfer]
I don’t have to. Someone has already made a show based on this:
Personally, I think anyone who eats a handful of roaches dies a little…
Someone went from being the life of the party to being the death of the party!
Srsly???
Oh goody gumdrops!
There are FIFTY-THOUSAND FREEEEE pythons roaming in Florida?
OMG, I know where I’m going to take my next vacation! I have to talk my dad into letting me borrow his pick-up (the one we sold hot tomales from).
Ooh I now have an idea for my next question of the week: “How does one capture pythons and sell them on the black market?”
I am convulsing in pleasure!
There are plenty of pythons, that is true. The problem with your scheme is that there is no market, black, gray or white. Or not a sufficient market to provide you with any significant profit. Once it was discovered how easy it is to breed these snakes in captivity, literally everybody did it. This resulted in a market crash, and lots of excess pythons. While some did surely ‘escape’, others as surely were dumped as valueless and requiring vast quantities of food to maintain.
Maybe you can make a profit from python hides though.
I’m thinking a .22 to the head and making friends with a boot maker.
Yes, I’d be pissed off if someone said that about killifish, but we are talking about fucking* snakes*, for Christ sake.
I’m a pretty good shot, but I can’t imagine a .22 being very efficient for taking killifish. For snakeheads, maybe. 
Python brains are really small. You can plug quite a few holes in the head of a 12 foot Burmese python and basically just piss it off. Waste of ammunition. One good chop with a machete does the trick. I speak from experience.
State fish and wildlife commission is certifying people to conduct “control” on these snakes. Feel free to apply for the permit. It’s good outdoor work, you’ll see some neat places both suburban and wild, and meet some interesting people. Me, I sit back and wait for these snakes to come to me. Usually as “surrenders” from people who no longer want to keep their now-illegal pet. I’m one of a diminishing number of folks who hold permits to have live individuals of this (and a few other) problematic species. In Florida, anyway.
The impact of a .22 would probably take out the killies.
I don’t want to get that close to a snake.
The copperhead moving from the pump house to my Wife’s car…I had a .45 pistol. Hit him the first time, but when he started his death throes and the above Ex-wife began screaming, it took most of the rest of the mag to hit him again, and that was one that just got close enough to his tiny brain.
That’s the problem with snakes, they have a relatively primitive response to physical damage. All that flailing can continue for some time, possibly the origin of the old myth that a snake “won’t die until sundown”. Especially with venomous ones like your copperhead, best just to leave them alone.
But if someone wanted to harvest pythons, a quick chop that severs the spinal cord will do the trick.
Had I known that she would soon be my Ex, I would have.
Any word about what caused his death?
Bad bug going around.
Win!
And I had to stop chewing my gum after that post… 
(no puking smiley)
I’ve eaten inscts, and though I wouldn’t recommend them, at least they taste better then Mushy Peas.