Has anyone heard about the huge rattlesnake that was said to have been caught in a coal mines in West Virginia.
Anyone interested in seeing this big monster or finding the true story, here is the link [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/claysnake.asp
If that snake weighs 50 lbs., how is he holding it up with a little ole flimsy stick like that? The photo is obviously a fake. I can doctor one up for you that will have a 100 lb. rat on it. Look closely at the photo and the shadow of the snake in contrast with the shadows of the men in the pic. That will tell the tale of it all. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on."
It kinda looks like there is a slight bulge in the middle of the snake....don't know if that is normal or not
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They mentioned something about the men holding it out from them on the stick to make it look bigger, but I am not too sure that Iwould not have done the same since whether it is 100 lbs or 10 lbs, that is a big a$$ snake.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
I saw on the CNN news tonight there was a Water Moccasin in Florida that came through a sewer line and bit a woman on the hind quarters as she sat on the commode. Talk about giving you a complex about using the toilet. It got really funny showing her husband guarding the toilet with his shotgun.
Here is the article I posted awhile back. It is a hoax.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Just like a fish tale, it gets bigger with each telling.
Captions accompanying a photograph of three men and a giant rattlesnake, passed from inbox to inbox by e-mail, claim the scary-looking serpent was found in the hills of Clay County. In some notes, it's purported to be 8 feet long and 50 pounds. Others claim it weighed in at 118.
But an expert in such matters says it's likely no more than 10 pounds, held closer to the camera just like many a fish - to make it look larger than it really is. And it's not from West Virginia.
The photograph shows three men, two in jeans and matching tan shirts with embroidered name tags. The face of the third man, clad in a navy windbreaker, is obscured by the snake.
Though it was alive and healthy at the time of the photo, the snake is a western diamondback rattler that does not live east of the Mississippi River, concludes D. Bruce Means, executive director of the Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy in Tallahassee, Fla.
"Any attempt to claim that this is a giant snake, or that it naturally occurs in the Appalachian region, is purely bunk," Means said Thursday in response to an e-mail from The Associated Press.
Keith Bartley has been saying the same thing for days, answering "a million questions" from Fola Coal Co. headquarters in Bickmore, where the captions claim the snake was found.
"It's unequivocally not ours," said Bartley, vice president of Fola. "It's a false story. There is no truth to it whatsoever."
It's unclear who took the original picture and where, and just how the West Virginia connection came to be.
However, "that snake did not come from here," Bartley said. "Shoot, if there was a snake like that, I wouldn't go back out there."
But that doesn't keep the rumors from spreading or the phones from ringing.
"It's got a life of its own," he said.
At 84 Lumber in Elkview, the photo has been behind the checkout counter for the past three weeks, where employee Kirk McKown has heard every story imaginable.
"I heard that someone got one bigger," he said, laughing. "Some people say it's not real. Some people say it's 15 years old. We've heard every snake story in the book."
And now that he knows the truth, will he take the picture down?
"We may leave it up," McKown said. "See, I've got a new story now."
Western Diamond Backs are not native to this area.
migration...
"i asked a toothless man, who all these people were and, he said the soapmakers...and we are workin workin"
Hope not! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Though it was alive and healthy at the time of the photo, the snake is a western diamondback rattler that does not live east of the Mississippi River, concludes D. Bruce Means, executive director of the Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy in Tallahassee, Fla.
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Also this is posted under the pic on the site you posted.
Origins: There were several reasons to doubt the origins of the photograph displayed above matched the description that accompanied it on the Internet:
The snake pictured is a western diamondback rattler, a species that does not live east of the Mississippi River.
The apparent size of the reptile is exaggerated in the photograph because a stick is being used to position it much closer to the camera's lens than the men standing behind it are. An 8-foot, 10-lb. diamondback rattler is considered a giant for that species, so the snake pictured probably weighs no more than that.
Fola Coal Co. vice-president Keith Bartley has fielded many an inquiry about this image, stating: "It's unequivocally not ours. It's a false story. There is no truth to it whatsoever."
According to the Stephenville (Texas) Empire-Tribune, the snake was actually an 6-foot, 11-pound rattler snared by three hunters (Jim Bob Basham, Danny Fincannon, and Johnny McClatchy) in the Lone Star State in February 2005:
The Great Rattlesnake Hunter from Proctor has been out looking under rocks again, this time near Alexander. On Valentine's Day Jim Bob Basham, holding the snake, and his fellow hunters, Danny Fincannon and Johnny McClatchy of Dublin, uncovered a din of rattlers that yielded this monster. This snake is even bigger than the one Basham caught last November that made its rounds on the Internet. Big Charlie here is more than 6 feet (an exact measurement was not attempted) and weighs 11 pounds. He boasts 15 rattlers and a button. He was sharing the den with 11 other rattlers that were all caught alive.
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