Hybrid Man-Eating Pythons

So I’ve previously ranted at length (http://freshmediocrity.blogspot.com/2009/07/pet-burmese-python-strangles-toddler-in.html) about the danger posed by pythons. I know, everyone thinks I’m over-blowing the python threat, like my rants about the “war on Xmas” (http://freshmediocrity.blogspot.com/2005/12/war-on-christmas-road-to-victory-part.html) over-blew the threat of Koala-loving drivers. But check this shit out. The CSM has this story (http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0915/p02s01-usgn.html) reassuringly-titled “HYBRID MAN-EATING PYTHONS? FLORIDA IS ON ALERT”.

In an [sic] case of real life imitating Hollywood, the US scientific
community is increasingly concerned that two nonnative python breeds currently
slithering free in south Florida could morph into a giant man-eating swamp coil.

The capture of five African rock pythons recently near an Everglades already teeming with the gentler Burmese pythons has scientists worried about so-called "hybrid vigor" – a phenomenon that occurs when interbreeding uncorks volatile recessive genes, passing traits such as aggression onto the offspring. Think Africanized bees.

The two species have interbred in captivity. While Burmese pythons aren't known to eat people in their native habitat, the African rock python, unfortunately, has been known to do just that (emphasis mine).

The “Africanized bees” of the python world! Great! It’s all fun and games until one of these things winds it’s way through a trailer park or clan rally or goat-rape (http://freshmediocrity.blogspot.com/2008/09/theres-no-justice-for-rednecks-victims.html) or whatever else they do down south. Then, when it coils around some fat, toothless, delicious redneck, and EATS THEM WHOLE, the goddam rednecks will somehow blame Obama.