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by pitbulllady on May 22, 2012
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http://www.wistv.com/story/18590445/large-snake-slithering-through-columbia-neighborhood
This is top news right now on WIS-TV out of Columbia, SC. People are insisting that this is a 15-20 foot Boa or Python. PLEASE someone here with some brains put in some intelligent comments!
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by Crotalusssp on May 22, 2012
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I have already emailed WIS and told them to forward my info to the homeowner. I assurred them it was a nonvenomous black ratsnake and that I would happily relocate for free. I was toldy info was forwarded.
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by pitbulllady on May 22, 2012
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I've told them they can forward my email and cell number to the homeower as well, since I'm just 45 minutes away. I doubt that the snake is still there, since he's probably a randy male out "tom-cattin'" looking for the ladies and just passing through, but I would like the op to photograph some familiar objects against that same tree for comparison. One guy insists that the snake is "as big around as a beer can" so it HAS to be a huge snake, so I posted a link to a photo of my 3 1/2-foot Green Ghost BP next to a 16-oz Rock Star can and asked if he could tell me how long that snake is based on its girth. You can't see the entire snake, just the section next to the can, so it will be interesting to see what kind of guesses the morons come up with.
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by Cro on May 24, 2012
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Of course it is a harmless black ratsnake.
That was not as obvious from the really crappy photos that were first submitted, but, the later photos posted on the news sites leave no doubt as to what the critter is.
Of course, the dumb redneck whose yard it is in, is going to say it was 15 or 20 feet long, even though it is probably only a healthy 7 or 8 foot black ratsnake. I will give him credit though for not hacking the snake to pieces with an ax or a shovel. But, it is a redneck hick rule, that when you see a snake, you double its size when talking about it.
But, that does not matter anymore, after the nit-wits rednecks from the news station have been called out. That snake, (even if found and captured), will forever now be a 20 foot snake.
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by pitbulllady on May 25, 2012
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Even with countless snake breeders, zoologists and other real reptile experts saying it's a Rat Snake, and even with a news reporter photographing his own forearm next to the tree that the snake was photographed on to show how small the tree actually is, people are still insisting it's a Python or Boa, even making up species like "Indonesian Black Pythons". I guess it's part of that odd aspect of human psyche that so desperately needs to believe in monsters and spooky things, so that when some folks see a mangy dog or coyote, to them it has to be a Chupacabra, and that burned-out pine stump in the woods is a Sasquatch, and a bloated, decomposing 'coon carcass washed up on a beach just has to be some freak genetic mutant monster created in a top-secret government lab that escaped and drowned.
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by Crotalusssp on May 25, 2012
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I live <20 minutes from there. I had my information forwarded to the homeowner. No one contacted me. Shocker!!! It is not good hysteria inducing press to have an educated, level headed, reptile person to find and relocate this snake. I hope this snake gets located and relocated by a level headed, educated snake person. That will never make the news. Otherwise I hope it stays free and eats well on rats, squirrels, and birds..never to be heard from again.
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by Chance on May 27, 2012
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"Indonesian black pythons" huh? Wow, sounds like a boelen's!! Maybe it's time for a trip there! ;)
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