{"id":56649,"date":"2018-01-13T05:54:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=56649"},"modified":"2018-01-13T05:54:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:54:31","slug":"florida-officer-wrestles-3-81-metre-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/florida-officer-wrestles-3-81-metre-python.html","title":{"rendered":"Florida officer wrestles with 3.81-metre python"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Florida officer wrestles with 3.81-metre python<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A Florida police officer likely won\u2019t forget Thursday night for a while \u2014 instead of wrangling a criminal, he had to catch a 3.81-metre long, or 12.5-foot, Burmese python in the heart of the Everglades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Officer Joseph Cabrera with Pembroke Pines Police Department was called to a neighbourhood on the edge of the Everglades after the snake was seen slithering its way toward the Chapel Trail, found near U.S.-27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The police department\u2019s social media manager, Amanda Conwell, told the Miami Herald that Cabrera was the first to arrive and he \u201cwrangled\u201d the snake before being assisted by backup units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Cabrera then took the python to the department until a licensed python remover arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Video of the wrangling was captured and posted on Twitter by police, showing the officer lifting the large reptile, though it does try to pull its tail away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cSnakes are not an uncommon sight to Floridians, but Burmese pythons are an invasive species &amp; a real threat to local wildlife, pets, and even children,\u201d police said in a tweet on Friday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">It wasn\u2019t Cabrera\u2019s first snake encounter either, the Herald reports, having secured a 3.96-metre, or 13-foot long python after it was found by a group of local teenagers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3963113\/florida-officer-wrestles-with-3-81-metre-python\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/florida-officer-wrestles-3-81-metre-python.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida officer wrestles with 3.81-metre python A Florida police officer likely won\u2019t forget Thursday night for a while \u2014 instead of wrangling a criminal, he had to catch a 3.81-metre long, or 12.5-foot, Burmese python in the heart of the Everglades. 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