I have heard for years now about the snakes in Florida. If you haven’t, apparently for decades people have been dumping exotic snakes into the swamp when they got too big to care for, so the results are that these Python and Anaconda snakes are taking over the native species including the alligators and are a real problem. What I had never heard of until this week was the monkey problem. Apparently, in 1939 monkeys were used in Florida during the filming of a Tarzan movie in Florida. A local tour guide wanted to capitalize on the film’s success so he marooned six monkeys on a little island thinking he could keep them contained. What he didn’t know is that Rhesus monkeys can swim. These monkeys have reproduced over the years, and now there are more than a thousand of them roaming through Florida. Look, I am all for the guy making a little money for his swamp tour business, but this is ridiculous. All these years later wildlife officials have got a mess on their hands. Unlike the snakes, you can’t go out and start shooting them down, people hate snakes, and they love monkeys. You would have swarms of Greenpeace tree huggers running around in boats attaching themselves to trees and creating tent camps for year round protesting. On second thought, if they do this it will get them off of what ever cause they are fighting right now and get them all to move out of my state to Florida. I think I am OK with that. You won’t even have to shoot any monkeys, just declare the intention and watch the sparks fly!