10-foot python found dead in Largo preserve

By Eileen Schulte, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

LARGO — About 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, John Rivard was walking in the Largo Central Park Nature Preserve when he saw something big floating in a stormwater treatment pond.

It turned out to be a dead 10-foot python.

"I was a little surprised,'' he said. "It was not something I expected to see out there.''

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