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Busting 10 Snake-Related Email Hoaxes
Busting 10 Snake-Related Email Hoaxes
Courtesy of that ubiquitous burster of Internet myths Snopes, here are a few famous, infamous, fraudulent, unbelievable (and a few that are true) snake-related e-mail hoaxes.
Here are two pics of a large and extremely toothy python that, depending on what version you received, got fried while slithering under an electric fence somewhere in Australia, Illinois, Angola or South Africa. Snopes Link.
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Courtesy of that ubiquitous burster of Internet myths Snopes, here are a few more famous, infamous, fraudulent, unbelievable (and a few that are true) snake-related e-mail hoaxes. - Chad Love
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I'm pretty sure this one's legit
I don't know where #1 is, but there's nothing fake about it. Python teeth really look like that.
One of the snakes from our advanced bio room got loose back in high school, and I was the one nominated to pull it out of the printer it lodged itself in. It was nice and toasty in there.
The hoax is probably that it got electrocuted. The fence posts look like re bar and the electric wire is just wired to that. There should be insulators if it was electrical.
Some of it looks fake.
Regarding #4, I know a gentleman thru my job that was on the job site where the rattlers were balled up in the pipe and saw it for himself. That one is NO hoax, it's true.
I like my steaks medium, but I think this one is well done!
I'm pretty sure # 6 is real. I know it's possible. There are a lot of snakes bigger than 13' out there. But as Snopes points out, it's entirely possible that the snake's demise was not caused by eating the gator. A python doesn't try to swallow it's prey until the animal is dead. If it was eating the gator that killed the snake, it was probably the scoots (sharp bony plates on the gator's back). They could have caused internal damage to the snake. I've cut myself a few times on the scoots while skinning a gator. On the other hand, since the snake's head was missing, it's probably more likely that human intervention was involved.
Went to the site for the electrocuted python - first time I ever saw the ewe it had ingested.
Oh, and I agree that cellis20 that, in #1, the cabled fence couldn't be electric - the rebar would just ground it out. But there are two other wires closer to the ground that very well could be electrified.
Those are some awesome pics. The one where the snake is lugging the wallaby out of the water is insane. If a snake can pull that thing up that far, that is just crazy but it looked real so It could be. I don't think the man eating snake is real at all.
Yeah the wires that look like they're pinching the midsection of the snake away from the main (not electrified) fence could be the culprit.
The snake in the computer could very well be real. My in-laws had their heat pump unit shut down on two years ago, the breaker in the house was tripped, and it smelled like burnt meat. When the service tech showed up an pulled the cover off, there was a fried 5 1/2' rat snake inside.
That snakes got some sharp teeth on'em. wouldnt wonna be bit by that big boy!
there are some real beasts out there. somehow I became the neighborhood snake wrangler when i was growing up. I caught 6 foot black racers and ratsnakes with regularity. i always wore leather gloves when handling them. most were released unharmed. the poisonious ones were handled with extreme caution. they were released about 25 miles from where i lived at the time.
Those are a couple of snake even I wouldn't want to try to catch.....
This is an Anaconda and was killed by the electric fence of a large steel mill in Rio de Janeiro state, in Brazil.
Anacondas are known in Brazil as Sucuri (a Tupi-Guarani Indian name), and are the largest snakes in the Americas.
The largest anaconda I ever saw was 21 feet long, and was shot at my father's property in Brazil in 1980, after he was bitten by it while trying to capture it alive.
You can read about this snake and other hunting stories in my book "A Wild Beast at Heart".
looks real
Wow, some weird stuff...
I hope some of those snakes are fake because I wouldn't want to stummble across one of those.
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I'm pretty sure this one's legit
I don't know where #1 is, but there's nothing fake about it. Python teeth really look like that.
One of the snakes from our advanced bio room got loose back in high school, and I was the one nominated to pull it out of the printer it lodged itself in. It was nice and toasty in there.
The hoax is probably that it got electrocuted. The fence posts look like re bar and the electric wire is just wired to that. There should be insulators if it was electrical.
Some of it looks fake.
Regarding #4, I know a gentleman thru my job that was on the job site where the rattlers were balled up in the pipe and saw it for himself. That one is NO hoax, it's true.
I like my steaks medium, but I think this one is well done!
I'm pretty sure # 6 is real. I know it's possible. There are a lot of snakes bigger than 13' out there. But as Snopes points out, it's entirely possible that the snake's demise was not caused by eating the gator. A python doesn't try to swallow it's prey until the animal is dead. If it was eating the gator that killed the snake, it was probably the scoots (sharp bony plates on the gator's back). They could have caused internal damage to the snake. I've cut myself a few times on the scoots while skinning a gator. On the other hand, since the snake's head was missing, it's probably more likely that human intervention was involved.
Went to the site for the electrocuted python - first time I ever saw the ewe it had ingested.
Oh, and I agree that cellis20 that, in #1, the cabled fence couldn't be electric - the rebar would just ground it out. But there are two other wires closer to the ground that very well could be electrified.
Those are some awesome pics. The one where the snake is lugging the wallaby out of the water is insane. If a snake can pull that thing up that far, that is just crazy but it looked real so It could be. I don't think the man eating snake is real at all.
Yeah the wires that look like they're pinching the midsection of the snake away from the main (not electrified) fence could be the culprit.
The snake in the computer could very well be real. My in-laws had their heat pump unit shut down on two years ago, the breaker in the house was tripped, and it smelled like burnt meat. When the service tech showed up an pulled the cover off, there was a fried 5 1/2' rat snake inside.
That snakes got some sharp teeth on'em. wouldnt wonna be bit by that big boy!
there are some real beasts out there. somehow I became the neighborhood snake wrangler when i was growing up. I caught 6 foot black racers and ratsnakes with regularity. i always wore leather gloves when handling them. most were released unharmed. the poisonious ones were handled with extreme caution. they were released about 25 miles from where i lived at the time.
This is an Anaconda and was killed by the electric fence of a large steel mill in Rio de Janeiro state, in Brazil.
Anacondas are known in Brazil as Sucuri (a Tupi-Guarani Indian name), and are the largest snakes in the Americas.
The largest anaconda I ever saw was 21 feet long, and was shot at my father's property in Brazil in 1980, after he was bitten by it while trying to capture it alive.
You can read about this snake and other hunting stories in my book "A Wild Beast at Heart".
looks real
Those are a couple of snake even I wouldn't want to try to catch.....
Wow, some weird stuff...
I hope some of those snakes are fake because I wouldn't want to stummble across one of those.
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