This is one huge big snake. Now, how did we find this snake video? Slowpoke Rodriguez left a bad link and low and behold, I found this snake video. Thanks, pokie.
My favorite character had to be A-l-e-x-a-n-d-e-r J-e-n-k-i-n-s, after the first guy and of course, after that huge snake.
This snake dude is HUGE.
Can we name him Slowpoke? Please???!!!!!!!!
Slowpoke was NOT a black snake. Go on google and you can see that black snakes look differently. Animal control should have come immediately. That was a python or boa.
What do you think? Could it be this: http://www.newspaperblog.net/nature/pythons-invade-the-everglades/
That is a predator. Hope they find it.
Cool though.
Just had a thought. That guy should look in the want ads for lost pets. Perhaps someone lost a pet snake.
Oh I am not going on record saying it is a black snake…I am simply imitating. It was a snake that was black in color as far as I am concerned. But Slowpoke is one cool snake.
I know. But I think that the un-named third party is assuming its a black snake and did so without listening to the man. Maybe they should have sent a truck, ya think? I would have called animal control back and said that there was a pit bull, foaming at the mouth in my yard.
But, then, if I had felt threatened by the snake, I have the tools to take care of it.
I think Slowpoke was minding his own business, as much as a 20 foot long snake can mind his own business.
Let’s talk size…what do you suppose his diameter was? He seemed awfully skinny. I wonder if he eats cats and small dogs? think if he got in your house! I would never go back.
My mother used to love to shoot snakes. Sigh.
An Uncle once gave me the dickens for killing a black snake near his barn
– got a heated lecture on how they ate rats and other varmits.
Cottonmouths, though, were always open season.
@Steve Randolph
Our policy is to place black snakes in the crawl space and hope they make a cozy home there. Copperheads are transported to the brush pile.
Why are copperheads allowed to live? Mama Howler would look down from above in scorn.
Man, that woman hated snakes!!! She hated snakes in a biblical sense.
@Steve, she would have approved of the open season.
I never learned my snakes. I rarely saw them alive.
Tastes like chicken!
What?
Too soon?
Moon-howler, I’ve always thought that most people’s hatred of snakes was because of their association with the Adam and Eve tale. We were kicked out of paradise because of those slinky reptiles. I rarely notice the same venom directed at skinks, toads, or lizards. (Spiders seem to be second when it comes to fear factor.) It may be because we know that there are a couple poisonous snakes (and spiders) in our area and aren’t sure we can ID them so we assume they’re all up to no good.
We usually see a copperhead in the yard every summer or two. They’re easy enough for us to avoid and we’ve moved the recalcitrant ones in a bucket (with lid) to the brush pile and released them. I worry more about them now because of the dogs we’ve acquired. They just run full-tilt through the bushes and over the rock walls without a care. I’m hoping they’re faster at running than the snakes are at striking.