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Have any of you guys seen this one?

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/659972.html

No picture was included with the article, of course.
They say it was a 15 foot snake that weighed 400 pounds. I find that hard to swallow. Correct me if I'm wrong, but has anyone ever seen a 15 foot snake weigh in at 400 lbs.?
And they're evaluating the owner's mental state!
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>> "And they're evaluating the owner's mental state!"

That is absolute pure BS!, and just another stupid story for the general public to get all excited over.

The record holding Burmese Python "Baby" of Illinois was an absolute behemoth of almost 27 feet long, and weighed 403 pounds.

A guy sent me a pic of an "alleged" 15 Eastern Diamondback, and it was so obvious the snake was held up infront of the camera, and the people were far back in the distance to give the impression it was much larger, just like some people hold a fish they caught out at full arms length to make it look much bigger..LOL!

The silly Diamondback was in the 5 maybe 6 foot range at best. Another thing that pissed me off is they killed the thing, when they could have EASILY relocated it, they had it at the end of a long 6 foot pole with a grasping tong end on it, but chose to strangle the snake with it instead of simply placing it it a container to relocate the animal. But it was one of those "look at me" hero saves the public from monster snake things, like David slaying goliath..LOL!

This sort of crap is really irritating to me. The general public is not real "bright" as a general rule.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

>> "And they're evaluating the owner's mental state!"

I meant to add... they should have evaluated whoever wrote the article instead.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

15 foot Blood Python?
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

Here's an interesting question to ask....

How did you know the snake weighted 400 pounds? Did you actually weigh it?
Did they forget to subtract the mass of the 300 pound deputy holding the bag?

I wonder how he killed it? Seems a shame to kill the thing just because you can't take care of it. Why did he call the cops on himself anyway?

I suspect these are the reasons for the psych eval.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas