48 foot, 983 pound python captured

[SteveGrenard]

The story is here:



http://msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3845750&p1=0


The reticulated python has never been known to exceed 32 to 33 feet in length so if this measurement is correct this would be a extraordinary find...............

I placed this in this section because there is a lot of lore attached to really great big snake stories and this one may prove to be no exception and should be followed to scientific certainty before complete acceptance.

[Yahweh]

Perhaps the snake is possessed by Satan...

Nothing like that can be conceived without boring the image of Satan...


(Hey, as long as we're on the paranormal board...)

[Kerberos]

Originally posted by Yahweh
Perhaps the snake is possessed by Satan...

Good point, lets ask it as soon as it begins talking:D

[CFLarsen]

Originally posted by Kerberos
Good point, lets ask it as soon as it begins talking:D

Wouldn't it ssssspeak in tongue(s)? :D

[Ed]

Very cool. Didn't the Bronx Zoo have a long standing reward offered for any snake longer than 30" (?)

[pupdog]

Wow, that's twice as long as the snake that my neighbor says chased her up the street!

[Chad Noles]

Ed wrote: Didn't the Bronx Zoo have a long standing reward offered for any snake longer than 30" (?)

30"

I hope not.Maybe that's why zoos are always broke!:p

[geni]

I wounder if there are many more like that out there

[Kerberos]

Originally posted by CFLarsen


Wouldn't it ssssspeak in tongue(s)? :D

Nah, only if it was a Christian snake:p

[shemp]

Is its name Monty?

[Ed]

Originally posted by Chad Noles
Ed wrote:

30"

I hope not.Maybe that's why zoos are always broke!:p


I hear they are working on it:D

[WildCat]

The Indonesian newspaper Republika said the snake, which was caught last year but only recently put on public display, eats three or four dogs a month.
Dogs?! Couldn't they feed it goats or woo woos or something else besides dogs? :eek:

[bjornart]

Originally posted by WildCat

Dogs?! Couldn't they feed it goats or woo woos or something else besides dogs? :eek:

What's wrong with feeding it dogs?

[WildCat]

Originally posted by bjornart
What's wrong with feeding it dogs?
Some things are just wrong, so very wrong.

Besides, it would much rather enjoy a nice plump pig or baby seal.

[SquishyDave]

That's a bit over 14.6 metres long, and weighs in at 445.88 kilograms for those of us who have caught up with the 21st century. (That's right I went there.)

If true I wouldn't want to carry that thing anywhere :eek: It weighs almost half a ton (metric). Good for a pet though, if you needed to dispose of a body, a chinsaw to half the meal, then a few weeks later all you have is bones, grind them up and mix it with your blood and bone mix, onto the lawn, and BAM, scott free.

[robbersdog]

I doubt this snake needs anything cutting up before it can eat it! There have been cases of people being eaten whole by much smaller snakes. Why bother risking the bloodsplattered clothing which could incriminate you after using the chainsaw? I suppose it could be fun. . .

. . no, I didn't say that. Just erase that from your memory!

[SteveGrenard]

The Guardian sent in a reporter with a tape measure.

Here's his story:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1116074,00.html

[WildCat]

Originally posted by SteveGrenard
The Guardian sent in a reporter with a tape measure.

Here's his story:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1116074,00.html
Party pooper... :(

[Jeff Corey]

Originally posted by WildCat

Dogs?! Couldn't they feed it goats or woo woos or something else besides dogs? :eek:
Don't worry, they were the dogs that were too rancid to make into their version of boshintang.
What do you have against goats?
Do you feel sheepish after eating Spring Lamb?

[Ed]

Originally posted by SteveGrenard
The Guardian sent in a reporter with a tape measure.

Here's his story:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1116074,00.html



Rats:(

On the bright side, from the Guardian article:

"Curious gawpers have to pay a scruffy employee 2,500 rupiah (17p) to enter the muddy enclosure, which is also home to a few mangy-looking monkeys chained to bamboo poles and two slothful mongrels that would most appropriately be named Fragrant's Breakfast and Fragrant's Lunch, as three or four canines a month are Fragrant's diet."

Hahahahahahahahaahaha

[Aoidoi]

Well, I guess a bit late with this, but here's the obligatory snopes link: http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/bigsnake.asp

[bjornart]

Originally posted by WildCat

Some things are just wrong, so very wrong.

Besides, it would much rather enjoy a nice plump pig or baby seal.

Yes, but those cost money. Stray curs are free.

[corplinx]

I would have love to have been the editor of the paper that first reported the story, I would have run the headline "DAMN" in big bold print.

[Darwin'sGoat]

Originally posted by WildCat
(snip) Couldn't they feed it goats (snip)

Hey! Watch it!

[zakur]

I saw my brother - an amateur herpetologist - on New Year's Eve and asked him what he thought about this supposed giant snake. His one word response was "Bullsh!t."

It looks like he was right.

[tracer]

Originally posted by SquishyDave
Good for a pet though, if you needed to dispose of a body, a chinsaw to half the meal, then a few weeks later all you have is bones, grind them up and mix it with your blood and bone mix, onto the lawn, and BAM, scott free.
Now you've got me worried! What do they make Scott's Turf Builder out of? :eek:

[waitew]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SquishyDave
[B]That's a bit over 14.6 metres long, and weighs in at 445.88 kilograms for those of us who have caught up with the 21st century. (That's right I went there.)

You,Sir,are a traitor!I'm proud that I continue to use traditional English/Imperial measurments.You should be ashamed!The metric system is French for God's sake.

[Libertarian]

No, no, no. The snake IS as big as originally reported:

1. There are just TOO MANY reports of a giant snake....... if just ONE of them is true, the snake is a world record.

2. Can you prove that there ISN'T a snake that big in the jungle?

3. Several stray dogs are missing from the village. There is no other explanation for their disappearance than a giant python.

4. Even if it isn't a python, it could be a giant snake of another species. Only people with closed minds won't admit that.

[SquishyDave]

Originally posted by tracer
Now you've got me worried! What do they make Scott's Turf Builder out of? :eek:
Scotts? If that's what you are implying, then.... well good idea I suppose, then they would stop whining about how the english keep bullying them, and we wouldn't need to listen to the sound of cats being shoved up other cats bums (more commonly known as bagpipes).

Originally posted by waitew
You,Sir,are a traitor!I'm proud that I continue to use traditional English/Imperial measurments.You should be ashamed!The metric system is French for God's sake. Aye, 'tis french, which on the surface seems like a drawback, but on the other hand, my yankee brethren, is not the statue of liberty french?

[waitew]

Aye, 'tis french, which on the surface seems like a drawback, but on the other hand, my yankee brethren, is not the statue of liberty french? [/B][/QUOTE]


If George the Third & the rest of our British brethren had treated the American colonists as they should have,we'd have had no need of the French!!There is no love between America & France..we understand that they did what they did only to hurt the British.We hate them as much as the rest of you.....but we'll accept help where we can get it..when in need.

[Darwin'sGoat]

Originally posted by SquishyDave
Aye, 'tis french, which on the surface seems like a drawback, but on the other hand, my yankee brethren, is not the statue of liberty french?

Oh please. Have you ever tried measuring anything with the Statue of Liberty?

[SquishyDave]

Originally posted by waitew
If George the Third & the rest of our British brethren had treated the American colonists as they should have,we'd have had no need of the French!!There is no love between America & France..we understand that they did what they did only to hurt the British.We hate them as much as the rest of you.....but we'll accept help where we can get it..when in need. I understand that, but surely you needed their help for the war, but as for the ol' girl standing up in sea just off new york, you could have refused. In fact the regular joe workers in new york had to donate money to pay for the stand it's on, coz no other bugger'd pay for it, that damn thing cost you money in the end, some present!

So that pressie you could have turned down, but you didn't. But though the wonderful metric system was invented by hairy-armpitted frogs, they were at least scientists, so that's OK in my book.

Originally posted by Darwin'sGoat
Oh please. Have you ever tried measuring anything with the Statue of Liberty? Why not? It's as arbituary as the rest of your nonsensical measurement regime.

"It's nigh on 16 liberties to get to the nearest Mcdonalds, and I just can't wait for my freedom fries" you'd say. See how it patriotises up the language good and proper. You can now use liberty 4 or 5 hundred times a day, instead of just the 300 you can manage now.

[Darwin'sGoat]

I vote that we liberty move this thread to liberty flamewar so we can teach this Aussie bastard a liberty thing or two about what happens when he besmirches our McDonaldses. Liberty.


(editted by Darwin's Goat to be more patriotic)

[SquishyDave]

Did I besmirch McDonalds? I unreservedly apologise, I meant to besmirch you, your country, your government, your mother, and all the values you hold dear. I would just feel awful if I thought I had besmirched the good name of maccas.

[Darwin'sGoat]

Originally posted by SquishyDave
Did I besmirch McDonalds? I unreservedly apologise, I meant to besmirch you, your country, your government, your mother, and all the values you hold dear. I would just feel awful if I thought I had besmirched the good name of maccas.

That's more like it.

[SquishyDave]

Good, I'm glad you approve.

[SteveGrenard]

Originally posted by Darwin'sGoat:
Oh please. Have you ever tried measuring anything with the Statue of Liberty?


Yes. Today in the NY Post they measured the Queen Mary II with the Statue of Liberty. They said that the Queen Mary II was taller than the Statue of Liberty. The ship, keel to funnel is 236.2 feet high. The statue is 151 feet high.

[Zep]

Gosh! 1.5 liberties tall! Big ship!

I wonder how much it weighs in hulk-hogans...

[tracer]

Originally posted by SquishyDave
That's a bit over 14.6 metres long, and weighs in at 445.88 kilograms for those of us who have caught up with the 21st century.
You mean like the British, for whom its weight would be listed as 70 stone, 3 pounds? :p

[SquishyDave]

Originally posted by tracer
You mean like the British, for whom its weight would be listed as 70 stone, 3 pounds? :p Pot calling the kettle black :p They are as bad as you, but at least they are being forced into metric by the EU. You guys were this close to going metric, but for some reason you were cruelly denied this great boon of civilisation. I understand even some of your signs where changed to metric before someone said it was anti-family or some such.

[waitew]

Originally posted by SquishyDave
Pot calling the kettle black :p They are as bad as you, but at least they are being forced into metric by the EU. You guys were this close to going metric, but for some reason you were cruelly denied this great boon of civilisation. I understand even some of your signs where changed to metric before someone said it was anti-family or some such.



Be forewarned,when Australia becomes the 53rd American state (after Canada & Britain) we're changing all your signs back to Imperial....like they should be & we're taking the Queen off the currency!!

[SquishyDave]

Originally posted by waitew
Be forewarned,when Australia becomes the 53rd American state (after Canada & Britain) we're changing all your signs back to Imperial....like they should be & we're taking the Queen off the currency!! Hehehe, and fair enough too. I'm sure I can live with a likeness of the queen not sitting near my genitals all day.

[tracer]

I dunno, the thought of Andrew Jackson being that close to my wedding tackle doesn't thrill me either....