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RE: WDB
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by Cro on November 20, 2005
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The size of the snake is being distorted by the magnification of the camera lens.
It is a very big snake, and could be 7 foot, or slightly longer, but it is not larger than that.
You can not compare the height of the man in the photos to the snake and make an accurate measurement.
As a professional photographer, I can use different lenses, and make a 6 foot snake in a photo look to be 4 feet long, 5 feet long, 8 feet long, or 12 feet long, just by changing the wideness of the lens.
A diamondback rattlesnake of 7 or 8 feet could weigh 25 to 35 pounds at the very, very most.
I challenge any of you to take something weighing 97 pounds and try to pick it up with a pair of snake tongs, and hold it up like the guy in the photo is doing! Use both hands! You will not be able to lift it off the ground! Even lifting 20 pounds that way will be very difficult. Try to pick up a 20 pound bar-bell with a snake tong or hook if you do not believe me.
What really annoyes me about photos like this, is why they do not tell the truth? Why not just say it was a 7 foot rattlesnake that weighed 15 pounds. That Is impressive enough. Why do they have to lie and distort the facts? Are the journalists all stupid, or gullable, or what?
JohnZ
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by agkistrodude on November 21, 2005
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I was wondering if the original post might have said 9.7 lbs. And somewhere on the internet superhighway, the decimal point got lost.I too thought that IF the snake could weigh that much, you'd never pick it up with a pair of tongs.Marty
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