Unfortunate that they felt the need to kill it. Supposedly it it was 9 feet long and 97 pounds, although looking at the picture I find that weight hard to believe. The way the picture was taken is also distorting the size of the snake, but there's still no doubt that's a BIG snake.
Here's the text that went with it:
"his snake was recently found at the old Turkey Creek gas plant
located just south of the Alibates Turnoff on Highway 136 south
of Fritch Texas.
[THAT'S JUST NORTH OF AMARILLO]"
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