One BIG Snake

[sutto75]

A photograph purporting to show a 55ft snake found in a forest in China has become an internet sensation. It was originally posted in a thread on the website of the People's Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper in China . The thread claimed the snake was one of two enormous boas found by workers clearing forest for a new road outside Guping city, Jiangxi province.

They apparently woke up the sleeping snakes during attempts to bulldoze a huge mound of earth. "On the third dig, the operator found there was blood amongst the soil, and with a further dig, a dying snake appeared," said the post. "At the same time, another gold coloured giant boa appeared with its mouth wide open. The driver was paralysed with fear, while the other workers ran for their lives.

"By the time the workers came back, the wounded boa had died, while the other snake had disappeared. The bulldozer operator was so sick that he couldn't even stand up." The post claimed that the digger driver was so traumatised that he suffered a heart attack on his way to hospital and later died. The dead snake was 55ft (16.7m) long, weighed 300kg and was estimated to be 140 years old, according to the post.

 

[SamNabz]

It's amazing what can be accomplished with a camera at the right angle

 

[Bushman]

Rubbish

 

[Snakeluvver2]

Fake

 

[noah07]

is this for real??? or is this just another of those tall stories backed up by photoshop

 

[guzzo]

Look at the size of the bucket in relation to the people. Unless thats one huge bucket i would say the snake is about 5mtrs....it is a photo of perspective.....as for the assosiated story....well.... it makes a good story!!

 

[Trouble]

... weighed 300kg and was estimated to be 140 years old, according to the post.

definitely fake

Look at the size of the bucket in relation to the people. Unless thats one huge bucket i would say the snake is about 5mtrs

exactly ... no excavator that size can have a bucket that big.

 

[snakes123]

Reminds me of harry potter

 

[Sezzzzzzzzz]

either way still a very big snake

 

[sutto75]

LOL come on people read it ... the fact it was in the official Communist Party newspaper in China would tell you it must be true.
The Communist party never lies..LOL

 

[saximus]

lol

 

[Tinky]

This fake does the rounds about every six months.

 

[dossy]

if it was that big, i feel sorry for the person who owned it, imagne the size of enclosure required in australia for it haha...got to love all these stories that drive people towards loving snakes

 

[guzzo]

The true story I bet would be....they saw the snake minding its own buisness then rushed and got an escavator and leveled half the forrest to get it and kill !!!!

 

[longqi]

That photo is actually of a reticulated python and did the rounds of the reptile forums in Indonesia about a year ago
There were lots of arguments for and against
It was supposedly killed in Central Borneo

 

[saximus]

Well a regular garden shovel wouldn't do the job on a 55ft snake Guzzo. You need a mechanical shovel for something like that

 

[cadwallader]

do you think i could keep it in a 3ftx2ftx2ft???

 

[sutto75]

do you think i could keep it in a 3ftx2ftx2ft???

yep for sure

 

[saximus]

Only so long as you house it with your Spotted

 

[guzzo]

Well a regular garden shovel wouldn't do the job on a 55ft snake Guzzo. You need a mechanical shovel for something like that

haha I just spat coffe all over my computer...hahahaha