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http://www.wggb.com/Global/story.asp?S=12971275

That's one heck of an "anaconda" *snicker*
colubrid, boid, same thing right?
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{Detailed News Video at URL below}

WGGB (Springfield, Massachusetts) 20 August 10 The Great Snake Debate (Jim Cline)
Springfield, Mass.: On August 12th, the Springfield police received a call that an anaconda was loose in an apartment building.
Hearing the dispatch, we ran to cover this and when we arrived at East Park, Tom Supinski, a local pest elimination expert, had removed this snake from the premises. He said it was an anaconda, a snake that could grow to 24 feet.
Our story started to make the rounds on the Internet and we have received numerous e-mails telling us that the snake is not an anaconda. It's a bull snake or a gopher snake, of the genus pituophis. It is indigenous to his country and not the Amazon basin. They also do make suitable pets, if you know what you're doing.
On Friday, we visited the Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, Mass., which has a young green anaconda. It does not resemble a bull snake, other than the fact that they are both snakes. According to Tim Cornwall, an education coordinator at the zoo, anacondas are not good pets because they get so large. They are not usually the most docile snake either. They can be aggressive.
It's a snake that can grow to 500 pounds and that can be a dangerous animal. "I would never recommend an individual owning a snake like this," Cornwall says, "They're just way too dangerous. They are too unpredictable."
The Great Snake Debate

I don't buy it for one minute that they thought it was an anaconda, since they had a picture of one behind the guy in the studio, but what news would it be for a native species to be found, they were just trying to add to the already sensitive topic and propaganda but got called out on it.

Just my 2 Cents
Zack
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Zack Greens Reptiles

Here is a real one. Notice how the owner avoided the A word. I would have just reported it as a big green bullsnake.

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local/Six-foot-snake-missing-from-FdL-home
"Water Boa" article

I don't really blame him for not sayin anaconda, all the people out there just hear that name and think it's going to be a huge man eatting beast, even if it is only a 3-6' one. Atleast he was responcible enough to report it missing, even tho he should of had an escape proof cage.
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Zack Greens Reptiles

Crazy story!

Edited on August 7, 2011 at 08:13:33 by PHFaust.