True or not?

[Teclis]

Everything that I've read contradicts what I'm about to relay that was told to my wife.

She was in our college Life Sciences building, of which they keep several kinds of venomous snakes native to Oklahoma. She ended up talking to a "zoology major" (guy sounds like he was bright as bricks) and referenced my want of a ball python. He proceeded to tell her that he is the owner of a 9 foot long butter ball python?

9 foot? Uhm...

[mainbutter]

I've seen maybe two pictures ever of a ball python that broke 6 foot.

Adding an extra 50% of length (and probably meaning adding 200% weight or more) on top of beasts like that just isn't going to happen.

[Erratum]

There's absolutely no way. The largest BP I've read about was 6' 2". That butter would be more than 2 1/2' past the larger BP known.

[boasandballs]

I would ask him again to make sure he was refering to a ball python, and not another species of pythons.

[wolfy-hound]

I'd have said "Put up or shut up dude."

[jjmitchell]

honestly would have to see it to beleive it... I would guess its complete Bull poopie.... Some people turn anything into a pissing match.... try to sound like they know more than they actually do.

[mpkeelee]

ya u should go ask that guy again. cuz hes prolly thinking of some other kind of python, or hes an idiot and thinks his retic or something is a BP.

How long have butter been around anyway? have they even been around long enough for one to grow to "9 ft" ???

[Teclis]

I told my wife the guy was full of crap, and that a zoology major should know that BP's make length is roughly 6 foot.

I mean, even power feeding couldn't boost it up to 9 foot. :\ I figured he had a retic or burm, and my wife probably spouted "he wants a b...b..." and the guy filled in "burm python?" and she said "yea!".

[mpkeelee]

lol ya thats what i was thinking could have happened too. it might have been just mis-communication

[llovelace]

Well most us know guys aren't good with measurements anyway