22-Foot Python In Fla. Is World's Largest

[The Straight Story]

22-Foot Python In Fla. Is World's Largest
At Least 7 Men Needed To Handle Giant Snake

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A 22-foot python in Florida that requires at least seven men to handle is considered to be the largest snake in captivity. The giant reticulated python was recently acquired by The Alligator Farm Zoological Park in St. Augustine and has already prompted crowds to gather at the facility.

"(The snake) is so strong, you can't believe," Grady Barr of National Geographic said. "(And) 10,000 muscles these guys have. They exert tremendous force."

The group of men put the snake in a giant tube to measure it, but the snake coiled and refused to slither to the other end.


"It is difficult to measure for obvious reasons," Barr said while trying to control the snake.

http://www.local6.com/news/15130545/detail.html

[donheld]

1. Does he answer to the name Rudy Giuliani?

:shrug:

[backscatter712]

3. If he doesn't, maybe we could feed Rudy to the snake...

[donheld]

8. I'm sure the snake would refuse to eat Rudy

All snakes have better taste than that.

[backscatter712]

9. You might have a point.

Pythons aren't the kind of snakes that eat other snakes.

[damntexdem]

7. Now, now! No sense in insulting the python!

Don't be as rude as Rudy.

[billybob537]

2. But the biggest snake in Fla. is

Jebby
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1778

[shain from kane]

4. Thatsa one big stimulus package.

[The Straight Story]

5. That's what my wife told me once....

:rofl:

[iconoclastic cat]

6. $ sudo gedit /home/bigasssnake.py

def big_ass_snake
if escaped=true
then hungry=false

[MiniMe]

10. Good reporting. That should be Brady Barr.

Big damn snake