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RE: More media hysteria stirring, =(
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by earthguy on April 28, 2010
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Yeah, I heard about this earlier today. There's a reason I don't watch WLTX news. Mostly because they go find the most ignmorant "eye witnesses" possible (In one instance last year the "eye witness admitted, rather slurrily, that she was high). If there is, in fact, a burm on the loose in Newberry is was probably released on purpose, and not by snake lover. Where is SCARK? We need a strong state wide herp group to respond to issues like this.
Charles, you want to take a field trip to Newberry? ;)
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by pitbulllady on April 28, 2010
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I'm not that far from Newberry; it's about an hour and a half, but I do not, for ONE second, believe that there is a large snake on the loose in Newberry, at all. The first "witness" claimed to have taken that photo of a huge snake crossing the road with her cell phone, when the photo has already been debunked as having originated in Australia(although this looks suspiciously like an AfRock crossing a dirt road in South Africa, rather than any Aussie species), so we know that the witness lied. We also know-and that Whitehead guy in the article reiterrated it-that people who are scared of snakes AND ignorant as dirt will greatly exaggerate the size of any snake they think they see, thus a six-inch Storeria dekayii suddenly becomes a ten-foot monster. Read some of the comments on WLTX's site; they are rife with people telling of having seen 12-foot-long "Black Snakes"(Rat Snakes?) and a 20-foot Boa Constrictor!
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by Crotalusssp on April 29, 2010
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Josh, I am pretty familiar with Newberry area. I would like to take a field trip. I know quite a few people up there because I used to deliver pepsi up there for a while. Let me know.
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RE: More media hysteria stirring, =(
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by Cro on April 29, 2010
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The photo that those folks are passing around is of an anaconda,and has been floating around the internet for years and years.
SCARK ? That is a joke.
You folks in SC need to start a new organization, with the help of USARK. Just call it something different.
The "snake catcher" John Whitehead says the snake could be 30 feet long, and weigh 400 LB, LOL. That should keep those black folks stirred up.
He could be right though about some nit-wit's pet Burmese python getting loose.
I have heard of a tawdry reptile show in that state where unscrupulous python breeding vendors are rumored to sell large constrictors to just about anybody who has money.
Could be one of those escaped its screen topped aquarium because some redneck left the bricks off ?
And even a 8 foot long escaped Burmese python could easily become a 30 foot long urban myth.
Best Regards
John Z
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by pitbulllady on April 29, 2010
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The photo has already been proven to be a hoax, in terms of that being the snake people claim to have seen. Most, if not all, of the people who claim to have seen this snake have either lied outright just to get attention for themselves, or they have been subjected to the hysteria to the extent that a stick or a garden hose suddenly became a 30-foot snake. I do not believe that anyone actually saw a huge snake that was anything other than a native species in or around Newberry. Just to show how fast the hysteria can spread, I've had about five different people at work today ask me, "have you seen that big snake they caught over in Santee"? Santee is nowhere NEAR Newberry, but the rumor already has huge snakes being spotted or caught all over rural South Carolina. People are so willing to believe a lie, it's pathetic.
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