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09-01-12, 03:23 AM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
BBC News - Giant Burmese python caught in Florida
No where near 17ft as you can tell.
Also I like the way they mention '87 eggs' so they can frighten people even more and convince them each escaped snake is producing '87' offspring.
Oh don't you just love the media lol.
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09-03-12, 12:51 AM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
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Originally Posted by lemon
BBC News - Giant Burmese python caught in Florida
No where near 17ft as you can tell.
Also I like the way they mention '87 eggs' so they can frighten people even more and convince them each escaped snake is producing '87' offspring.
Oh don't you just love the media lol.
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Lot of slugs in that picture for sure. I heard somewhere the snake was actually caught in the spring and they didn't release the info until now, no surprise why... when I'm not on my phone I'm gonna look at the pictures again but I didn't think it looked like a 17 footer either.
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08-31-12, 07:31 AM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
I fail to see how anyone can have an informed opinion on the size of a snake they've never seen in person. Not to mention how Guinness could fail to measure something and proclaim it the biggest anything.
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08-31-12, 07:43 AM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
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Originally Posted by Norm66
I fail to see how anyone can have an informed opinion on the size of a snake they've never seen in person. Not to mention how Guinness could fail to measure something and proclaim it the biggest anything.
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Guinness is a joke when it comes to these things. Their track record is abysmal.
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08-31-12, 07:53 AM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
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Guinness is a joke when it comes to these things. Their track record is abysmal.
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One could say that they are the world's largest and most comprehensive list of inaccurate world records! 
Irony, much?!
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08-31-12, 04:09 PM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
Funny story...one of the guys at the pet store said he had a 13ft bci...I kinda laughed a little bit...is that even possible? Cause as soon as I told him I had a retic and a ball, and was looking at a bci, that snake shrunk to 8 ft xD
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08-31-12, 09:02 PM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
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One could say that they are the world's largest and most comprehensive list of inaccurate world records!
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Sounds like an appropriate description to me.
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Originally Posted by iBaman
Funny story...one of the guys at the pet store said he had a 13ft bci...I kinda laughed a little bit...is that even possible? Cause as soon as I told him I had a retic and a ball, and was looking at a bci, that snake shrunk to 8 ft xD
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Lol, big surprise... I've heard similar reports, someone sent me to a link of a 15ft bcc from the amazon, a certain locality gets huge, I'll try and find the picture. There was a study that accompanied it but the link was dead and I never was able to find a title.
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08-31-12, 09:08 PM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
Baha, you boys and your 'i swear it's 12 inches!' ;D sounds like and interesting study, I'd love to read it if you can find it!
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08-31-12, 09:25 PM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
I can't post pics from my phone or I'd post it
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08-31-12, 10:09 PM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
He may mean the 17 footer that was recently found.
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09-01-12, 03:14 AM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
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He may mean the 17 footer that was recently found.
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Once again this was a load of propaganda.
Anybody with any experience with giant snakes could easily tell from the picutre that the Burmese Python caught was no where near 17ft. The animal in the picture from the report I saw on the BBC was only around 13ft.
Secondly did anybody notice how good a condition the animal was in?
That particular animal was either only released recently or god forbid the government of any country would lie it was actually never caught in the everglades in the first place, but by saying it was and adding several feet to its size sure does make it easier to justify the killing of these snakes.
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09-03-12, 11:27 PM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
Any things possiable
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09-05-12, 10:09 PM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
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Any things possiable
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no its not.
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09-06-12, 07:01 PM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
Here's the latest
The dead snake was 55ft (16.7m) long, weighed 300kg and was estimated to be 140 years old, according to the post. Biggest snake in the world forest in Malaysia.
It was on my facebook so it has to be true.
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09-07-12, 03:06 AM
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Re: True length of "record" giant pythons.
Yeah, that photo's been floating around for a few years now as well. Another trick using forced perspective. See how close the scoop is on that...machine (bah, forgot what you call those things)? The scoop is larger than the cage of the operator! LOL
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