Never going to Florida, ever!!

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I know this should be in the off topic section but it needed to be seen by all the membership. Most of you know how much I hate snakes, I don't like little brown snakes or big green snakes. This snake is in a class of its own and might just take, Baby", my H&R 10 gauge with 3 1/2" magnums to kill about 5 feet at a shot.. This is not photoshopped. This is what was spotted on Okeechobee extension west of the Turnpike in Ft.Pierce a hour ago....at least 20ft. I can not see anything that could make me go to Florida :big shock: :big shock:
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Coooooooool :shock: Did they try to catch it? I bet that would be worth good money to a zoo, or snake collector. What is it anyway? One of the South American snakes? My neighbor was just asking me to ID a tiny rattlesnake she noticed sunning itself on the stone wall outside earlier today, if she saw that huge snake it would be massive heart attack time.
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Dayummm!!!! I could use a new pair of python boots!
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From my limited knowledge of these slimey, sneaky bastards I am thinking it is an Anaconda the outgrew it cuteness and was let out to roam. Big snakes with little brained owners are a problem everywhere. It ain't cute.
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Looks like my brother. :thumbsup: Judi and her Mosin's ;mywink;
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I bet it's worth at least a grand :)
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Like I said, I would cut it into 5 foot pieces from 50 feet away.
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Stopsign32v wrote:
Longcolt44 wrote:From my limited knowledge of these slimey, sneaky bastards I am thinking it is an Anaconda the outgrew it cuteness and was let out to roam. Big snakes with little brained owners are a problem everywhere. It ain't cute.
I could be wrong but I don't think Anacondas would raise their heads like that.
No idea, never met one, but it would make it easier to get a rope around it's head.
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I bet it takes allot of rats and other critters to feed that one! :big shock:

But, I bet that it tastes like chicken once you cook it. :brolleyes: :brolleyes: :brolleyes:

Lottsa good eatin on that one, unless it's an endanger specie. :Drool1: :Drool1: :Drool1:
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Back when I was a kid I wanted to be a Herpetologist (study of snakes & reptiles)... Been around all kinds of vipers and a couple different species of constrictors. I can't really tell if that's an anaconda or not, if it isn't it's a damn big python or boa, but my first thought was "Oh hell no"! But I gotta ask, did you take that picture? Reason I ask is that the girth looks a little unrealistically narrow, the head doesn't look that similar to an anaconda, and it's not quite as angular as a boa's or a python. And while they can swallow prey considerably bigger around than they are, that thing looks like it might struggle choking down a small to midsized dog.
I dunno, I don't think I'd want tangle with it, whatever it is...
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A ,"friend", sent it to me. You wouldn't find me stopping to take any pictures.
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:big shock: :big shock: :big shock: and that there is the only reason I own a Judge. I just wish it had a 20 round cylinder for that slimy , no legs but moves anyways, ugly, should be a boot nasty a.. thing.

Did I mention I don't think there is such a thing as a good snake?
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Rabbits and small kids probably, they are a real problem in South America where kids are on the menu, just ask a customer of mine who is from Brazil, he would shit his pants if he saw that thing.
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I wonder how big a cage that would need?
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A little something to leave watching my place when I am away :)
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Junk Yard Dog wrote:I wonder how big a cage that would need?
You can only keep it if you feed it lib..... I better not go there.
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BuckeyeSgt wrote:
Junk Yard Dog wrote:I wonder how big a cage that would need?
You can only keep it if you feed it lib..... I better not go there.
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I could name it slinky :)
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Longcolt44 wrote:A ,"friend", sent it to me. You wouldn't find me stopping to take any pictures.
Well your friend is far braver than me. Something that big, I think I'd give it the right of way by about 50 or 60 miles... The thing that scares me about constrictors is that they're ungodly strong.
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Junk Yard Dog wrote:I wonder how big a cage that would need?
I recken maybe about 30' of 8" pvc tile would do it...
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