"I just didn't have a big enough bag to bring it back."
-- Jason Leon, 23, of Palmetto Bay
A record-setting Burmese python was killed with a knife in a rural section of southern Miami-Dade County, after it wrapped itself around the legs of the man trying to capture it.
The monster snake was 18 feet, eight inches long, beating the previous Florida record by more than a foot, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.