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Mother Nature
06-15-2009, 16:03
http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/3/3/0/0/97_lb_rattlesnake_thumb.jpg (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=34454&c=550)
97 lb Eastern Diamondback found in Bulloch County , GA
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 17:51:27
97 lb rattlesnake found in just north of Savannah
9 feet, 1 inch - 97 lbs. - Biggest rattler found since
Ross Allen captured
one in 1969 that measured 9 feet, 1 inch but only weighed 78 lbs.
This old guy was found inside a open water tank near an
abandoned chicken
Mrs Baggins
06-15-2009, 16:05
Oh....my.....God. It could probably swallow ME!
mister krabs
06-15-2009, 16:14
Not (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/txsnake.asp)
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Not (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/txsnake.asp)
but it is on the web, so r u SURE that the web site you have referenced isn't just a fake for foolin all us that the real snake aint REAL?!? :eek: :confused:
ChinMusic
06-15-2009, 16:31
There is no way that skinny guy could hold up 97 pounds like that. I think he'd be pressed to hold 15 pounds. Heck, that stick couldn't hold 97 either....FAKE
http://graphics1.snopes.com/photos/animals/graphics/txsnake_small.jpg
OldStormcrow
06-15-2009, 16:35
Now THAT'S some good eatin'!
Homer&Marje
06-15-2009, 16:36
That thing is enormous....old guy had a long life I bet.
There is no way that skinny guy could hold up 97 pounds like that. I think he'd be pressed to hold 15 pounds. Heck, that stick couldn't hold 97 either....FAKE
http://graphics1.snopes.com/photos/animals/graphics/txsnake_small.jpg
well, just so u know, that so called "stick" is a titanium killin macheen and that old boy holdin the "stick" is my uncle Yimmy and he rang the bell 3x IN A ROW at the state fair in nineteen and forty seven. The said creature actually passed due to lead poison and did weigh 97lbs, same as my aunt Fufu and thats how he could tell. Please stop bad mouthing my family ant twistin tha FACTS!:D
MintakaCat
06-15-2009, 16:57
97 lb rattlesnake found in just north of Savannah
Why does this link and others indicate that this snake was found in North Carolina???????
http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/4215266
Plodderman
06-15-2009, 17:04
Not enough anti-venom to take care of a bite from that snake. Probably wouldn't need any as it would most likely take off a whole leg and i would bleed to death.
Thats a monster rattler, but nowhere near 97 lbs.
I dont know if its 97lbs but thats the way I like my rattle snakes.....dead.
Sidewinder
06-15-2009, 18:29
what a waste of a beautiful pair of shoes and matching bag
Mrs Baggins
06-15-2009, 18:49
I've been trying to google the story. It comes up in Texas and Georgia, but the Georgia link, at an Augusta TV station is no longer active. Me thinks I'm beginning to smell a "story" in more ways than one...........
Sidewinder
06-15-2009, 19:20
I've been trying to google the story. It comes up in Texas and Georgia, but the Georgia link, at an Augusta TV station is no longer active. Me thinks I'm beginning to smell a "story" in more ways than one...........
fake........
This old guy was found inside a open water tank near an abandoned chicken
That poor chicken...
Sidewinder
06-15-2009, 19:48
I found the photo on the left on the web, this man is also claming to have the record snake. I opened both Photoshop and overlayed the one on the right over the one on the left, the patterns on the snake matches exactly on both snakes. It is my conclusion that neither of the men killed the snake, the chicken did.
Dances with Mice
06-15-2009, 20:08
Thats a monster rattler, but nowhere near 97 lbs.Not if they're holding it like that.
Tie two 50 pound bags of concrete mix onto the end of a rake. Hold it up like those guys in the picture. Ain't gonna happen.
truckindust
06-15-2009, 20:11
I live in Bulloch County Georgia...and I saw that picture in the local newspaper a month or so ago...so it's real! I don't know the man but I can say this...last year on my way to my okra patch in the golf cart, I came upon a timber rattler a good 5 ft long and then some...and the head was as big as my hand (fingers opened) and he was thigh thick. Some 15 yrs ago, in FEBRUARY, no less, out of the woods next to the river a 1/4 mile from down the road from my house I came up on a huge rattler very close to this size with 20 rattles! I backed up (because I DARN sure couldn't drive over him in a small nissan truck) and got my neighbor to kill it, who collects snake skins, which he said he'd never seen one that big in his 60 years. It was so big, it was stretched out 3/4 of the way across the 2 car wide dirt road...I'm telling you, me nor my mother could believe our eyes...at first we thought it was a mirage you see in summer across hot pavement and then the closer we got to it, we thought a limb had fallen onto the road. About 100 ft. from it.... it became clear WHAT it was!!! All of my neighbors laugh because I'm so scared of the darn things saying..."If there's one within a ten mile area...she will find it..or it her"! And whoever it was on this thread that said he was the man's nephew...I don't anyone around here that talks like that...even in south Georgia so unless there was some serious spelling errors...I think that was a bogus comment or one meant to be funny! I did wonder at the time I saw the picture in the paper, though, if the snake wasn't "shot" up, how did they actually kill it? Oh well, I can sadly attest that we DO grow them that big here as they could grow most anywhere...although it is unusual to see them, for sure! I'd say that if encountering one that size on the AT...DO NOT attempt to move it with your hiking pole...or attempt to take it's picture hahaha...!
Now THAT'S some good eatin'!
the snake or mrs. baggins?:-?
MintakaCat
06-15-2009, 20:15
Tie two 50 pound bags of concrete mix onto the end of a rake. Hold it up like those guys in the picture. Ain't gonna happen.
That's what crossed my mind when I first read this. If you've ever had to move an 80 pound bag of concrete, then you know there's no way someone can hold up 97 pounds like that.
I worked a a herpetologist for a few years and the accepted record for an Eastern Diamondback is 8 feet (for a live snake) even and it was caught in south Florida about 30 years ago. The photo is of a dead snake and they stretch a lot when they are dead, like up to 30% over their actual living length. A 9 foot snake dead (which this snake does not appear to be, and certainly doesn't weigh over 40-45 pounds tops) could have been only 6-7 feet when alive. It's an impressive eastern, but not a record...:-?
bronconite
06-15-2009, 21:33
That is not a recent picture. It's been around the internet for years.
They are using a very simple picture taking technique to make something appear larger than it is. I do this with fish all the time. You hold it way out in front of you and the photographer fills the frame with the specimen. I'll bet it's arounf 6 ft.
That same picture has been making the rounds for awhile. I saw it on an Arkansas snake forum post last year. There it was supposed to have been caught in SE Missouri. It may be on snopes.com but I am not sure anymore. The camera angle makes the snake look bigger than it actually is, but they get some big ones in Georgia anyway as posted above.
That is not a recent picture. It's been around the internet for years.
They are using a very simple picture taking technique to make something appear larger than it is. I do this with fish all the time. You hold it way out in front of you and the photographer fills the frame with the specimen. I'll bet it's arounf 6 ft.
I have never done that!!!!!!:)
Jim Adams
06-15-2009, 23:14
I found the photo on the left on the web, this man is also claming to have the record snake. I opened both Photoshop and overlayed the one on the right over the one on the left, the patterns on the snake matches exactly on both snakes. It is my conclusion that neither of the men killed the snake, the chicken did.
Different snakes but...but.....I think it is the same guy!!!! Moved from Georgia to North Carolina.....maybe 7 years older...yeah, yeah, thats the ticket...same guy.:D
geek
Critterman
06-15-2009, 23:25
My brother in law sent me this picture over 3 years ago and claimed it was in the Texas Panhandle.
saimyoji
06-15-2009, 23:38
I've been trying to google the story. It comes up in Texas and Georgia, but the Georgia link, at an Augusta TV station is no longer active. Me thinks I'm beginning to smell a "story" in more ways than one...........
i think you're right.....was it the snopes article that clued you in or did figure it out all by your hobbit-self?
this one could eat you whole though: alabama black snake (http://www.casatrudel.com/images/AnacondaOutOfSnake.jpg)
and wash your balls for you. ;)
Doughnut
06-16-2009, 07:00
Why does this link and others indicate that this snake was found in North Carolina???????
http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/4215266
I reckon it's all true; North Carolina is north of Savannah??
My brother in law sent me this picture over 3 years ago and claimed it was in the Texas Panhandle.
Tell him that Eastern Diamondbacks don't live anywhere near Texas.
SloHiker
06-17-2009, 17:57
http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/files/3/3/0/0/97_lb_rattlesnake_thumb.jpg (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/vbg/showimage.php?i=34454&c=550)
97 lb Eastern Diamondback found in Bulloch County , GA
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 17:51:27
97 lb rattlesnake found in just north of Savannah
9 feet, 1 inch - 97 lbs. - Biggest rattler found since
Ross Allen captured
one in 1969 that measured 9 feet, 1 inch but only weighed 78 lbs.
This old guy was found inside a open water tank near an
abandoned chicken
I'm fairly certain Eastern Diamondbacks don't get that heavy.
I never weighed one, but when I lived in central FL, I handled many over 6 feet that didn't approach 30 lbs, much less 70+ lbs.
Since his name was mentioned: Ross Allen was a friend & patient of my Father, and I used to visit his Reptile Institute @ Silver Springs on a regular basis ... certainly an interesting and knowledgeable gentleman.
mister krabs
06-18-2009, 10:10
I'm fairly certain Eastern Diamondbacks don't get that heavy.
I never weighed one, but when I lived in central FL, I handled many over 6 feet that didn't approach 30 lbs, much less 70+ lbs.
A 9 foot 97lb snake would have to be as big around as a dinner plate, with nearly a 2 foot circumference. Think of a 5 lb tube of hamburger, then add lungs in the middle of it and double it's diameter.
modiyooch
06-18-2009, 19:32
I live in Bulloch County Georgia...and I saw that picture in the local newspaper a month or so ago...so it's real! I don't know the man but I can say this...last year on my way to my okra patch in the golf cart, I came upon a timber rattler a good 5 ft long and then some...and the head was as big as my hand (fingers opened) and he was thigh thick. Some 15 yrs ago, in FEBRUARY, no less, out of the woods next to the river a 1/4 mile from down the road from my house I came up on a huge rattler very close to this size with 20 rattles! I backed up (because I DARN sure couldn't drive over him in a small nissan truck) and got my neighbor to kill it, who collects snake skins, which he said he'd never seen one that big in his 60 years. It was so big, it was stretched out 3/4 of the way across the 2 car wide dirt road...I'm telling you, me nor my mother could believe our eyes...at first we thought it was a mirage you see in summer across hot pavement and then the closer we got to it, we thought a limb had fallen onto the road. About 100 ft. from it.... it became clear WHAT it was!!! All of my neighbors laugh because I'm so scared of the darn things saying..."If there's one within a ten mile area...she will find it..or it her"! And whoever it was on this thread that said he was the man's nephew...I don't anyone around here that talks like that...even in south Georgia so unless there was some serious spelling errors...I think that was a bogus comment or one meant to be funny! I did wonder at the time I saw the picture in the paper, though, if the snake wasn't "shot" up, how did they actually kill it? Oh well, I can sadly attest that we DO grow them that big here as they could grow most anywhere...although it is unusual to see them, for sure! I'd say that if encountering one that size on the AT...DO NOT attempt to move it with your hiking pole...or attempt to take it's picture hahaha...!Were you on Monster Quest with this snake??