Jake Waleri caught a 19-foot Burmese python in Florida, landing a record-breaking catch, according to a conservation group.
“Oh my god, it’s moving,” Isabella Dorobanti thought as she watched next to Waleri. “Oh my god, it’s a snake.”
It was already a remarkable score for Waleri, a 22-year-old rising college senior at Ohio State University, and his group: a mix of college and childhood friends on an amateur hunting trip who could hardly boast the experience or credentials of the contractors paid by the state to root out the snakes.
Waleri, who has been hunting pythons for two years, started slow. As he got his bearings, he’d searched fruitlessly for hundreds of hours along Florida roads, he said. He worked up to bigger and bigger catches, enduring countless sharp — but nonvenomous — bites from pythons along the way. “I was genuinely scared to grab it,” Waleri said. “Getting bit by something like that would probably send me to the hospital.”
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