Video of the day -- serpents in the garden

Years ago a hurricane damaged a reptile breeding facility in Florida, allowing its Burmese pythons to escape and multiply in the wild.  So now the state has a large and established population of honkin' huge constrictors preying on the native wildlife, and probably scaring the shit out of local humans as well.  Why was somebody breeding these monsters in the first place?

I suspect this kind of thing will become an issue in coastal Texas after Harvey.  Texas has its share of people who keep exotic pets, or as normal people call them, "huge terrifying dangerous wild animals".  I've already seen a story about a flooded alligator farm there, whose inmates nearly escaped (farming alligators?  why?  handbags?), and who knows what else is already on the loose.  It may be just as well that so many Texans carry guns.

[Video found via Crazy Eddie, who has a post on the subject.  I hope this displays properly on everyone's computers.  YouTube has fubar'ed its video-embedding utility, eliminating the option of adjusting the screen size -- so I had to do it manually.  Fullscreen should still work.]