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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought people who lived in Bethesda were sort of bland but hoo-boy, was I wrong.

I knew a woman who kept an iguana in a tub and treated it like a baby. She had a hard time finding house sitters.[/quote]

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Well, I’m not [i]from[/i] Bethesda, I just live in that area now. I grew up in PG. But you’re sorta correct, I only know of one of our neighbors who would be down for a trip like this one, but they moved to AZ last year. The rest of the folks I know on our part of the block all seem pretty stodgy. I don’t play golf or watch ballgames on TV, so I’m always the odd-man-out when it comes to the rest of our neighbor-husbands. M’eh, I’m fine with that. We do cool stuff, and my Wife is awesomely badass. [/quote]

Bethesdan here and I would hang out with you guys!  If your boys are in scouts, maybe I already do.  
On the bash their head in issue, my question is how many hits it takes.  If it’s one and done, that doesn’t seem necessarily cruel to me.  If it’s a nasty drag out where they are screeching and clawing, that would be different.  
I appreciate the fact that nature=death and every iguana you don’t kill just means a more defenseless and native creature will be killed.  And I even rather like iguanas.  I also like the idea that they are being sold for some purpose….is it livestock feed?  Dog food?  Human food?  Compost?  [/quote]

That's just not true. The iguanas aren't pushing out native species. They are harmful to ornamental landscaping. The pythons are deeply harmful to other species - there is a legitimate environmental and moral argument for killing them, essentially by any means necessary. The iguanas are inconvenient. They destroyed one seawall.

I'm not saying there is no argument for reducing their population. Clearly there is. But there is a big difference between them and pythons. Don't let tourists like OP convince you otherwise.

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