15ft Eastern diamondback in St. Augustine???

[VexalUntil]

Anyone else get a email showing pics of a EDB that's exceptionally huge?? Email title largest rattlesnake I've ever seen or something similar??

Anyone know the veracity of the pics?? The officer's car says St. Johns County which is where St. Augustine is. Apparently it was at an outlet mall. Here's the pics. The first looks very photoshopped. The second looks just like forced perspective, and the last looks acceptable in my opinion.

[AGActaeonia]

That's friggin' nuts.

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[Caleb Bryant]

hm.. I'd have to agree with your opinions on the shots.. I do know of an 8 or 9 ft found some where in TX some time ago.

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[Byron]

I'd doubt 15', but its for sure a large one.

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[VexalUntil]

8 is not unheard off, 9 is pushing it but attainable. Just wondering what others thought of the picture and if anyone from the area has seen something in the paper...

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[John_White]

LOL! The largest EDB documented is 243.8 cm = 96 in. = 8 ft. However, photoshop has created some impressive giants.

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	Eastern Diamondback Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

[Byron]

7'3" snake found in neighborhood in St Auggie

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[Caleb Bryant]

Originally Posted by grnxnam

7'3" snake found in neighborhood in St Auggie

Intelligent comments on that article..

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[Byron]

Originally Posted by Caleb Bryant

Intelligent comments on that article..

yeah, I just googled new reports for snakes in st auggie....didnt really read or verify anything.

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[Caleb Bryant]

haha it's the right article.. just the people's debate on there is rather.. unpleasant.

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[BlackLava]

what a shame that they have to kill the beasts that actually survive and make it that far

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[SUAD]

Wow, the DUMB in those comments just kills me.....

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[DragonflySHO]

Originally Posted by Caleb Bryant

Intelligent comments on that article..

PITA's spelled with an "I"!!
People for the Ithical Treatment of Animals.

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[Dead Out Reptiles]

Originally Posted by BlackLava

what a shame that they have to kill the beasts that actually survive and make it that far

i agree
they have no right to take a life

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[SUAD]

I was finally sent this by my step-father in law. He bought the whole 15 foot thing hook, line, and sinker....even said they "confirmed" it on Snopes. In the e-mail he also had some "facts", I will post them here:

Guess what was found just south of Jacksonville
Near the St. Augustine outlet, in a new KB homes subdivision.




15 foot Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake. Largest ever caught on record.
After seeing this, I did a little research, and learned the following:

One bite from a snake this large contains enough venom to kill over 40 full grown men.
The head alone is larger than the hand of a normal sized man.
This snake was probably alive when George H. W. Bush was President. A bite from those fangs would equal being penetrated by two 1/4 inch screwdrivers. A snake this size could easily swallow a 2 year-old child. A snake this size has an approximately 5 and 1/2 foot accurate striking distance. (The distance for an average size Rattlesnake is about 2 feet) .

*the lines in bold were the ones that just gave me a migraine and a mild stroke. I tried to set my stepfather in law and his friends straight on the issue, and all they'd say is "it was verified on Snopes", etc....

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[snakehooked]

Thank you Joey....now I have to go punch myself in the face.

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[mongoose5971]

Wow...just wow...exactly like that ONE halfway intelligent person said, that snake lived THAT long and nobody even knew it was there, some threat huh? People are retarded. What the frick do they care about the skin anyway? People FARM rattlesnakes for skin...probably would have drawn a big attraction at a zoo or the Alligator Farm. Idiots. Don't you love how any time the largest or most impressive of anything found, it is followed by, "was killed by..." Makes me sick.

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[sFlsniper]

Yep- I'd gotten that email a while back. ridiculous!

When I was around 13 a neighbor and my father had killed a 8.5' footer at my neighbors barn. His dog was bitten in the head around 10-12 times. It's head swollen to twice it's normal size- but it lived.

They cut it's head and an additional 6" off. I skinned/tanned it and sold it to a mom & pop restaurant for $100 where it hung on the wall for years!

It is a shame to see a large shark, snake, etc.. that's was killed for no reason! With expanding developments and population animals don't have a long life span to grow "big" anymore.

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[Azredtail]

That is insane haha

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[RioBravoReptiles]

This is a fun thread with lots of good replies.. some informative as well.
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In case it has escaped someone's attention; a 15 foot (even a 10 foot) Diamondback would be worth a fortune. There was an open bounty of $1000.00 per foot for any rattlesnake over 10 feet for many years. It may still be available? No one has ever collected or even come close.
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More importantly.. it would not be possible in America to hold up a living animal (even dead in many cases) with steel tongs by it's neck in public and publish pictures of the spectacle and not be widely discredited, even prosecuted for cruelty.. EXCEPT of course if the victim is a snake.
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My goodness! what an advanced and humane society we are!
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Adios!

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