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A Florida Restaurant Is Letting People Trade Dead Pythons for Pizza

An Everglades restaurant offered free pizza for dead Burmese pythons during Florida’s annual Python Challenge.

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Florida has tried a lot of things to deal with its Burmese python problem. Organized hunts, cash prizes, robot bunnies. Now one Everglades City restaurant owner has added pizza to the list.

Dustin Crum, the self-described “swampetreneur” behind Wildman’s Pizza, Pasta and Python, spent the past ten days accepting dead snakes as legal tender. His offer ran concurrent with the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, the annual state-organized competition that wrapped July 19 and paid out $25,000 in prizes to hunters willing to wade into the Everglades and remove as many Burmese pythons as they could find. Crum’s pitch was simpler: bring him a recently and humanely killed snake, walk out with a free large specialty........

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