SEAMUS!.....HELP!
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SDB777
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You aren't seeing everything.....think of all the pen blanks on could get out of that thing after you run it over with your car!
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beck3906
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Thinking of all those pens blanks that could be made! 
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glennw
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I know exactlly where that is,and that can certainly bring a sleepless night, but can you imagine the pen blanks it would bring. Can you believe they dont destroy the snakes the release them to a safe area away from people.
TomW
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Boz
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Just another reason to love Florida.
danrs
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Use to live in Gainesville. Glad I didn't see one like that. Man I'd be two feet shorter.
danrs
Use to live in Gainesville. Glad I didn't see one like that. Man I'd be two feet shorter.
danrs
workinforwood
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That would be great for boots, useless for pens. A snake that big, the pattern is so huge it would be larger than the pen, so you'd see nothing but bland scales. Looks like a python too..they have thick skin, the larger the python the thicker the skin..his skin is likely thicker than a spun pen. Cool looking snake though..I like snakes. I am not good at casting them, but I can skin them as good as the next guy. I generally prefer to let them live though, they are really good at mole control.
navycop
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The guy in the picture looks about average hieght. I'd say 5'6. The snake appears to be more than 2' bigger than him. Just my two cents.
its_virgil
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That picture has been making the rounds since 2009 and the snake is shrinking....in 2009 he was 15ft and now he meaures in at a mere 7 feet. Before long he will be just a baby.:biggrin: Or, maybe the other 8 ft has already been cast into pens.
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Don
Do a good turn daily!
Don
hmmmm
I read a local (Jacksonville FL) news account from 2009 and the snake was reported as 7 feet. Still a big rattlesnake.
I read a local (Jacksonville FL) news account from 2009 and the snake was reported as 7 feet. Still a big rattlesnake.
TomW
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its_virgil
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Sleep tight. No Eastern Diamondbacks in Allen....just Western Diamondbacks:biggrin::biggrin:
Don
Don
seamus7227
Member
I'm a bit late, but better late than never. A snake that big would be at least a foot wide when split apart if not wider! I too, have seen that same email, but mine said it was 15' long not 7' , but either way, a GYNORMOUS snake!
TellicoTurning
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I don't do snakes, I don't like snakes... I was traumatized as a child by a snake...
'course the snake was just a lowly chicken snake and only about 5 or 6 foot long... when I was about 5, we lived on the old family home place where we had a log barn. We were so far back in the woods that the only chickens we could raise were the Game chickens because they were half wild anyway and could out run the chicken hawks... but they also like to hide their nests or nest high off the ground.... my dad made sure the nests were high enough that they didn't brush the top of his hat when we walked under them... being about 6'2"+ that put them way up there... my mom was only 5'1" and could not gather the eggs without a step ladder, so dad would reach up for the high boxes... one evening he reached into a box and a long bull snake came slithering down his arm and into the logs of the crib the nests were attached to.... he stepped back and stabbed with the pitch fork he was holding... he caught the snake near the end of his tail... the snake immediately struck at him so he couldn't reach the tail to get hold of it to crack it's head off.... that's how he would do the less dangerous snakes, just crack them like a whip. He had my mom hold the end of the pitch fork so he could duck under and grab the snake. As a wide eyed 5 year old, I was watching all this goings on... after that I had night mares about that snake for several years... he always caught me just as I reached the porch steps... to this day, I don't watch snakes on TV or in Movies.... I've gotten over most of the trauma now..
. there's a 3 or 4 foot black snake that lives under my shop... he keeps the squirrels and chipmonks from using my lathe and band saw as an acorn storage bin now... we get along... he eats the rodents and I don't whack him with a shovel...:biggrin::biggrin:
'course the snake was just a lowly chicken snake and only about 5 or 6 foot long... when I was about 5, we lived on the old family home place where we had a log barn. We were so far back in the woods that the only chickens we could raise were the Game chickens because they were half wild anyway and could out run the chicken hawks... but they also like to hide their nests or nest high off the ground.... my dad made sure the nests were high enough that they didn't brush the top of his hat when we walked under them... being about 6'2"+ that put them way up there... my mom was only 5'1" and could not gather the eggs without a step ladder, so dad would reach up for the high boxes... one evening he reached into a box and a long bull snake came slithering down his arm and into the logs of the crib the nests were attached to.... he stepped back and stabbed with the pitch fork he was holding... he caught the snake near the end of his tail... the snake immediately struck at him so he couldn't reach the tail to get hold of it to crack it's head off.... that's how he would do the less dangerous snakes, just crack them like a whip. He had my mom hold the end of the pitch fork so he could duck under and grab the snake. As a wide eyed 5 year old, I was watching all this goings on... after that I had night mares about that snake for several years... he always caught me just as I reached the porch steps.
.. to this day, I don't watch snakes on TV or in Movies.... I've gotten over most of the trauma now... there's a 3 or 4 foot black snake that lives under my shop... he keeps the squirrels and chipmonks from using my lathe and band saw as an acorn storage bin now... we get along... he eats the rodents and I don't whack him with a shovel...:biggrin::biggrin:Snakes are nothing....
Unless they are poisonous snakes don't bother me at all. I grew up in an area where Northern Water Snakes, Eastern Garter Snakes, Eastern Milk Snakes and Green Snakes (we called them grass snakes) were very common and were known to be harmless although some of their bites could break the skin. We would see them all the time....used to think it was great fun to try to pop a water snake with the .22 rifle when it was swimming....
Unless they are poisonous snakes don't bother me at all. I grew up in an area where Northern Water Snakes, Eastern Garter Snakes, Eastern Milk Snakes and Green Snakes (we called them grass snakes) were very common and were known to be harmless although some of their bites could break the skin. We would see them all the time....used to think it was great fun to try to pop a water snake with the .22 rifle when it was swimming....
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