EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas (132k Pic)

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:02 pm

OMG This guys is huge. I have seen 6 footers here in Alabama but sheesh ... this thing must be 8 or 9 feet long.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:12 pm

That's nothing. I've had friends who kept 10ft Boas and 10Ft king Snakes as pets

TheCope · Post by **TheCope** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:16 pm

Yea but thatâ??s a rattler... FANG!

TigerRaptor · Post by **TigerRaptor** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:17 pm

Are rattler snakes suppose to get that big? O_O

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:21 pm

CDN_Merlin wrote:That's nothing. I've had friends who kept 10ft Boas and 10Ft king Snakes as pets

10 Ft girly @$$ boa aint nothing ... this is a RATTLA!

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:26 pm

Rattler Smattler

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:00 pm

omg huge

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:50 pm

if this thread had been a picture of a wang i would have been highly upset.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:53 pm

TigerRaptorFX wrote:Are rattler snakes suppose to get that big? O_O

I suppose they will grow as large as their environment will support them.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:57 pm

So I suppose the guy thinks he's macho for killing the beast. Should of caught it and released it somewhere safe.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:26 pm

I suppose that picture was taken w/ a short lens

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:07 pm

woodchip wrote:So I suppose the guy thinks he's macho for killing the beast. Should of caught it and released it somewhere safe.

I'm with you on this Woodchip. Absolutely no reason to kill such a wonderful reptile. There are absolutely no snakes in New Zealand, and that's a shame, because snakes are A1+ Mega cool scaley beasties.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:08 pm

Holy cow!
0_0

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:04 pm

woodchip wrote:So I suppose the guy thinks he's macho for killing the beast. Should of caught it and released it somewhere safe.

I don't know man, I see where you're coming from but he looks about the age to have kids in the house. I can understand his not wanting to leave that guy slithering around in the back yard.

Snakes are awesome.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:28 pm

I agree the snake is dangerous, but wouldn't it have been more educational to show respect for the rattler and by capturing (which I would have done) or calling in the wildlife people, the kids would have learned something more than, "Eek, snake...kill it."

Money! · Post by **Money!** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:09 pm

That snake could kick the ★■◆● out of Thor.

Muffalicious · Post by **Muffalicious** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:19 pm

Money! wrote:That snake could kick the **** out of Thor.

LOL

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:42 pm

Muffalicious wrote:
Money! wrote:That snake could kick the **** out of Thor.
LOL

OMG! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!

Woodi & Mobi why would you make such a judgement without knowing anything about the situation in which it was killed?

Liquid Fire · Post by **Liquid Fire** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:45 pm

woodchip wrote:So I suppose the guy thinks he's macho for killing the beast. Should of caught it and released it somewhere safe.

You might feel differently if you had some of those threatening your pets and younger siblings. I've almost been bitten, my siblings have almost been bitten, my cat's almost been bitten twice. It's only by sheer luck and a good shovel that there were no casualties.

Keep in mind-this is not a macho thing. Snakes are awesome (I own one) and rattlers eat rats and other pests. But if it's my favorite pet or a snake, I'll choose the pet.

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:01 am

it might have been self defense... or family defense, may have also just been found on the property like that. we don't know. what we do know is that he is holding up a REALLY BIG rattlah, how could he NOT feel macho. c'mon... be reasonable!!

dissent · Post by **dissent** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:03 am

Remind me not to retire to this part of Texas.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:48 am

/me goes out to kill some defenseless-against-bullets wild animal to prove my superiority mwahahahahahaha!!!

Not, I think I'll just go to bed instead.

And dissent, retire to Florida so you can keep on buying the same crap over again every few years after a hurricane blows it all away, it's better for the economy.

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:33 am

Krom wrote:And dissent, retire to Florida so you can keep on buying the same crap over again every few years after a hurricane blows it all away, it's better for the economy.

or ... retire to california and build your house on a big hill so it will mud slide away... then build another one IN THE SAME SPOT the next... repeat this every year or three...

and krom... FEMA takes lots of tax money to replace those peoples things.... do you really think that is advantageous to the economy? just a thought...

Phoenix Red · Post by **Phoenix Red** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:57 am

Krom wrote:and krom... FEMA takes lots of tax money to replace those peoples things.... do you really think that is advantageous to the economy?

Yep.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:46 am

Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Admiral Thrawn** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:39 am

I love how the Descent community is turning into a bunch of Peta pansies. I'm not all for just killing things without reason, but you have to protect your home and your family. I'm seeing hay, which indicates that this is a farm. There could have been farm animals in danger, workers in danger, etc... I'm quite sure it wasn't killed for sport.

If I found a snake on my property or in my house, I personally wouldn't kill it, but I don't hold judgement on anybody who did. Especially a poisonous one.

And Mobious, be glad you don't have snakes around there. If you did have an abundance, I guarantee that another animal species over there would DRASTICALLY dwindle if snakes did become common over there. In which case, it would be an ecological disaster.

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:03 pm

Who the ★■◆● cares about any of this ★■◆●.

One side is all like "weiiin he might have killed that snake without good reason" the other side is like "weiiin you guys are crybabies self defense!"

I am becoming increasingly bitter as of late.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:04 pm

I just think it's a cool snake.

Vertigo 99 · Post by **Vertigo 99** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:06 pm

word lothar

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:09 pm

Admiral Thrawn wrote:I love how the Descent community is turning into a bunch of Peta pansies.

IMHO I think it would have been more macho to have a pic holding a live rattler in your bare hands instead of a limp carcass of a dead one on some sort of garden tool. PETA has nothing to do with this case.

Liquid Fire · Post by **Liquid Fire** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:39 pm

Admiral Thrawn wrote:If I found a snake on my property or in my house, I personally wouldn't kill it, but I don't hold judgement on anybody who did. Especially a poisonous one.

Poisonous snakes bite animals and people, causing pain and death. Non-poisonous snakes eat rats and other pests, which is always a good thing. If you have rattlers on your property, for example, go find some king snakes and release them by your house. The rattler problem disappears and you have fewer rats and alot of harmless snakes.

Woodchip wrote:IMHO I think it would have been more macho to have a pic holding a live rattler in your bare hands instead of a limp carcass of a dead one on some sort of garden tool. PETA has nothing to do with this case.

Oh. Well if you put it that way then yeah, the guy's a pushover.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:50 pm

Repeat ...

Iceman wrote:why would you make such a judgement without knowing anything about the situation in which it was killed?

You guys have no evidence whatsoever to base an opinion of the killing of this snake. For all you know, it could have died of old age.

Lothar wrote:I just think it's a cool snake.

Heck yeah, that's why I posted the pic in the first place. This is one really cool snake.

Hattrick · Post by **Hattrick** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:29 pm

That is one heck of a big rattler!!

Ice, I believe that is a wound right behind his head.It looks as if he has been killed.

I have to say that since we have children here that are too young to be afraid of a rattlesnake that the critter would have met a same fate here.

This lil town doesnt have the "snake wrangler" on call and animal control would have dispatched such a critter as well.

Couver_ · Post by **Couver_** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:38 pm

Lothar wrote:I just think it's a cool snake.

Yep because its dead

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:48 pm

Ok I estimate the guy's height at 5'6". Given that, I took the photo into Powerpoint and drew line segments on the snake to measure it. Then, comparing the length of the line segments to the man's height, I came up with a snake length of 9.9".

That's a 10 foot long RATTLA!

According to THIS LINK the record length for a western diamondback is 87.5" => 7.3 Feet

I believe this snake is a western and if so, this guy is the new record.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:18 pm

You guys have a lot of time.

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:00 pm

Heh! I make time ... would go crazy if I didn't.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:13 pm

Admiral Thrawn wrote:And Mobious, be glad you don't have snakes around there. If you did have an abundance, I guarantee that another animal species over there would DRASTICALLY dwindle if snakes did become common over there. In which case, it would be an ecological disaster.

nah, introduced cats and foxes do so much more damage than snakes (as seen in australia). snakes being introduced into the NZ animal population would have comparitively no effect.

Couver_ · Post by **Couver_** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:30 pm

Do a search on brown snakes in Guam and what they have done to the native critters.

If possible yes live and let live. When we used to go to the hunting house in west texas and have to clear out 4-10 rattlesnakes before we could live there then it was time to take them out. As was pointed out eariler in the thread they still have fangs and can jack you or a pet up.

Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Admiral Thrawn** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:16 pm

roid wrote:

nah, introduced cats and foxes do so much more damage than snakes (as seen in australia). snakes being introduced into the NZ animal population would have comparitively no effect.

Hehe, you should spend less time talking and more time researching. Snakes can be VERY nasty when introduced into an area where they have no natural predators. Some places have had entire bird species practically wiped out because of introduced snakes. ANY new animal or insect not indigenous to an area can cause MASSIVE damage.