You poor Florida residents

tonyb
tonyb Posts: 32,958
edited April 2013 in The Clubhouse
Florida was always a weird state for me. Beautiful and ugly, with Jarrasic Park type critters. Mosquitos this year are supposed to be larger than ever, Pythons crawling up everywhere. Gators, and a host of oversized insects are enough to drive anyone back north. Now, we have the invasion of....snails. Not any snail mind you, ones as big as a rat that love to eat anything green and drywall. Snails that will eat your house ? WTF ?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/thousands-giant-snails-causing-problems-for-florida-homeowners/

Maybe they can let some of these snails go to town on Detroit, save the city from tearing down all those old buildings.:smile: Word has it they shy away from that cheap chinese drywall though. Has me wondering if these varmits are edible. I'll have to ask Lightman, he eats these sort of things and as it so happens he's moving to Florida.:biggrin:
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  • nspindel
    nspindel Posts: 5,343
    edited April 2013
    Great. I'm moving to Florida next year!
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited April 2013
    Those are huge! They probably just moved to Florida to dodge their alimony payments...
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited April 2013
    I live close to the Everglades and it is Jurassic Park here. There were 14 of these eating my car this morning! Yesterday a Palmetto bug the size of Mothra grabbed me and was lifting me to the heavens, thankfully a Python had latched to my leg and provided enough anchor delay for me to throw a snail at the Palmetto, stunning it enough for me to get away.

    I had been yelling for help the entire time but no one down here speaks English...
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited April 2013
    Not jealous with the lack of bugs here in the PNW, but the depression from lack of sunlight will get you...
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited April 2013
    You folks need to come experience REAL prairie bread mosquitoes. Some the size of a thumb nail! West Nile Virus is unfortunately a concern...

    Usually its lots of bee's, dragon flies and mosquitoes. Canker works are also annoying as hell when you walk into a tree with 20 of them hanging at face level! :mad:
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,008
    edited April 2013
    Drenis wrote: »
    You folks need to come experience REAL prairie bread mosquitoes. Some the size of a thumb nail! West Nile Virus is unfortunately a concern...

    Usually its lots of bee's, dragon flies and mosquitoes. Canker works are also annoying as hell when you walk into a tree with 20 of them hanging at face level! :mad:

    We had all those too in Kenora along with lots of passed out bodies from huffing glue and gas! Those we had to dodge a couple times!!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,958
    edited April 2013
    venomclan wrote: »
    I live close to the Everglades and it is Jurassic Park here. There were 14 of these eating my car this morning! Yesterday a Palmetto bug the size of Mothra grabbed me and was lifting me to the heavens, thankfully a Python had latched to my leg and provided enough anchor delay for me to throw a snail at the Palmetto, stunning it enough for me to get away.

    I had been yelling for help the entire time but no one down here speaks English...


    LOL.....funny stuff right there. Golfing once, I saw a spider web had to be 15 ft. across and 10 ft. tall elevated off the ground by another 8 ft. What the heck man, that thing was big enough to catch small aircraft. I would have ran like an ethiopian chicken if I ever saw what made that web.
    I'm willing to bet more people go missing in florida than out in the desert of Las Vegas. Where's Russ when ya need the dude.
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,068
    edited April 2013
    Snails that size would go great on the rotisserie. Yummy!!! :biggrin:
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited April 2013
    eeeewww! :eek:
    pearsall001 wrote: »
    Snails that size would go great on the rotisserie. Yummy!!! :biggrin:
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited April 2013
    Call Andrew Zimmern. I bet he would take care of 'em!

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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited April 2013
    Damn skippy I'm gonna trap on of those and grill it. Escargo anyone?
    Tasty treat!
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  • badchad
    badchad Posts: 348
    edited April 2013
    I think I saw an article on CNN claiming the same snails were popping tires. Nasty.
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited April 2013
    venomclan wrote: »
    I live close to the Everglades and it is Jurassic Park here. There were 14 of these eating my car this morning! Yesterday a Palmetto bug the size of Mothra grabbed me and was lifting me to the heavens, thankfully a Python had latched to my leg and provided enough anchor delay for me to throw a snail at the Palmetto, stunning it enough for me to get away.

    I had been yelling for help the entire time but no one down here speaks English...


    I live in fla and u r right, we have some bad a$$ bugs. But your story was the funniest thing i have read in a long time. Thanks ( ive only seen small children taken not an adult! LOL
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  • jbooker82
    jbooker82 Posts: 1,627
    edited April 2013
    Nice thing about the lack of rain in the mid west last summer was no mosquitos.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited April 2013
    Go to Arkansas or Mississippi where they share the mosquito as their state birds!
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  • chefkungfu
    chefkungfu Posts: 638
    edited April 2013
    It's not so bad guys!!! We have half naked women on any given day at the beach!! Even during the cooler months!
    Just keep out of the everglades, you don't have to worry about those pesky snails!!
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  • chefkungfu
    chefkungfu Posts: 638
    edited April 2013
    This is very true!! LOL! The closer to Miami you go, the worse it gets!!
    venomclan wrote: »
    I live close to the Everglades and it is Jurassic Park here. There were 14 of these eating my car this morning! Yesterday a Palmetto bug the size of Mothra grabbed me and was lifting me to the heavens, thankfully a Python had latched to my leg and provided enough anchor delay for me to throw a snail at the Palmetto, stunning it enough for me to get away.

    I had been yelling for help the entire time but no one down here speaks English...
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2013
    halo71 wrote: »
    Go to Arkansas or Mississippi where they share the mosquito as their state birds!

    You can't tell Eagles from Mosquito's here!:lol:
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited April 2013
    If I hadn't seen it on other actual news sites, I'd have sworn you were being lied to (again)..... :D
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited April 2013
    Snails trails and naked women! I'm in!
    Too much **** to list....
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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited April 2013
    pepster wrote: »
    You can't tell Eagles from Mosquito's here!:lol:

    Oh come on....don't exaggerate Paul! You're being sensationalist! Last time I visited my son in Searcy, for our annual fishing trip, we only encountered two moccasins and a cotton mouth in a 45 minute time frame. Why are you building it up in Arkansas?LOLOL
    Too much **** to list....
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited April 2013
    You do get used to it all.....

    When I first moved down here some 20 years ago, used to think OMG people are PUMPING GAS during a lightening storm!!! They must be completely out of their minds. Now think nothing of it do it myself now. If I woke up tomorrow with a Gator in my pool first a picture for you guys, then a call to? Hope there's something in the YP for gator in pool!!!

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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2013
    SDA1C wrote: »
    Oh come on....don't exaggerate Paul! You're being sensationalist! Last time I visited my son in Searcy, for our annual fishing trip, we only encountered two moccasins and a cotton mouth in a 45 minute time frame. Why are you building it up in Arkansas?LOLOL

    I have killed 2 deer with a Mosquito, what does that tell ya?:cheesygrin:
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    edited April 2013
    tonyb wrote: »

    Maybe they can let some of these snails go to town on Detroit, save the city from tearing down all those old buildings.:smile: Word has it they shy away from that cheap chinese drywall though. Has me wondering if these varmits are edible. I'll have to ask Lightman, he eats these sort of things and as it so happens he's moving to Florida.:biggrin:

    Dude, why are you always ripping on my 'hood? . . . .

    Actually, it's a pretty good idea!! Nice think'n Lincoln!

    I'm getting into the snail importing biz!!

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