Ignorance at it's worst

There is a pic of a 700 lb. python floating around on Facebook. People actually believe that the pic is real and are saying that the snake is a man eater. Well, I responded to that hype that people are starting. How in the hell are you actually going to believe something that fake and stupid. People are saying that anyone that owns a python is crazy. Well, I told the people that I AM one of those crazy people that keeps pythons as pets. Such a lovely say to start my day. This kind of ignorance really pisses me off. People need to be educated and stop believing all the BS that gets posted from the media!

Can I see the picture? or a link to it? I'm curious..

www.snopes.com/photos/animals/700lbsnake

I don't know if this will work or not.

It didn't :( Is it a common image? I googled 700lb snake but I just saw a bunch of pics I've already seen.

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Originally Posted by ballpythonluvr

www.snopes.com/photos/animals/700lbsnake

I don't know if this will work or not.

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http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/700lbsnake.asp

What is that, a retic?

It is so clearly photo manipulation... I can even tell that the snake is way closer to the camera than it is to the construction equipment.

Just more proof that news isn't about the truth anymore, it's about getting ratings. And sheeple will believe just about anything they are told.

well, the front end of the snake at least looks like a boa constrictor. I'm not sure about the back end but it looks like a different snake,

It's not photo manipulation. It's a perspective misinterpretation. The photo is real but the snake is much closer to the lens than the background object making it impossible to correctly size the snake.

Woke up to it on fb this morning. Annoying

Pass this around anytime you see something like that pop up.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

I remember seeing it sometime last week. How anyone could just believe it at face value is beyond me.

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Originally Posted by RoseRed

I remember seeing it sometime last week. How anyone could just believe it at face value is beyond me.

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Because like the thread title implies, people are ignorant and narrow-minded. All they see is a big snake and don't care about anything else. It's these kind of people who need to be educated about snakes so they don't see this again and immediately think "OMG IT'S A MAN-EATING SNAKE D: RUN AWAY! KILL IT" etc.

It has retic patterning and very well could be an animal that is 14FT+ but like others have pointed out, its in the foreground so it appears larger.

If it WAS pulled from a lake in North Carolina, you'd better believe there'd be a HUGE media sensation over it. People read one article and go bananas, yet don't stop to think that something as big a story as this would be on TV, in multiple articles, and be making nation-wide news.

I always thought that they were real photos (I've only seen the "dead" looking one though) but since I thought they were in the forests of Indonesia I went "hm, well I guess it's possible since they're in a previously uninhabited area". Obviously it's POSSIBLE, look at the world's largest retic, who I believe is about 45ft? They CAN grow to monster proportions, but those snakes are found in remote areas where there has been little to no human contact.

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Originally Posted by xFenrir

I always thought that they were real photos (I've only seen the "dead" looking one though) but since I thought they were in the forests of Indonesia I went "hm, well I guess it's possible since they're in a previously uninhabited area". Obviously it's POSSIBLE, look at the world's largest retic, who I believe is about 45ft? They CAN grow to monster proportions, but those snakes are found in remote areas where there has been little to no human contact.

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:hmm: did you mean 25 ft?

It's just the depth of field in the photo. Makes the crane look smaller because the snake is way in the foreground of the photo.

(Thats also how they filmed Lord of the Rings without photoshopping the hobbits. )

There are a lot of people ignorant about animals in general. Just the other day, a friend on facebook was posting a photo of a dikdik and claiming it was a baby giraffe. Then there was that felt toy bear from etsy that was being shared as a live newborn polar bear.

45foot retic? show me one credible source. Guinness book of world records has recorded the longest snake in captivity as ~25 feet. Fluffy from the Columbus Zoo held the title until he passed a few years ago. Medusa at the Edge of Hell is credited as the longest retic in captivity now. Both in the 25foot range. A captive bred and born snake given the best of care and food and zero predators (much better conditions then any animal in the wild) and none have measured 40+ feet.

Percy Fawcett claimed to have seen anacondas in South America literally 100 years ago that were over 50feet. He did not have a measuring tape and did not have any live specimens. Nothing I have ever read even indicate that he captured any of these monsters. No one has found one of that length since.

The Bronx Zoo has offered a reward since the early 1900s for anyone to present them with a living snake in excess of 30feet. That reward has gone unclaimed for 100 years. If they existed at that length, someone would have claimed the $50k reward.

Heck, Titanoboa which lived on this earth 50million years ago was in the range of 50feet. According to the bones found, it was so wide it would not fit through the door in a house. Interestingly enough, we have more evidence proving a 50 million year old snake was 50feet then evidence proving any other present day snake at that length.

RE: the pic that started this thread. Picture someone's hand holding the snake just above outside the camera frame, letting the snake dangle right in front of the lens. Show any fisherman these pics and they know exactly what is up.

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Originally Posted by OctagonGecko729

It has retic patterning and very well could be an animal that is 14FT+ but like others have pointed out, its in the foreground so it appears larger.

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It really doesn't look like a retic to me, it's a pretty dark/bad picture but it appears to me to be just a regular old circle back boa. Also if you notice in the picture that it appears as though the snake is hanging from something outside of the cameras view off of the top of the picture. All you can see is the front end of a snake and then the back end of a snake hanging down. I'm not convinced that both of these ends are even of the same snake.

-shrug- It was a long time ago that I read the article, so I could just be mixing up numbers. I thought it was an abnormally larger one though, and it was the only one ever found that was even close to "huge".

"The largest reticulated python ever found in the wild was reported in 1912 from the island of Celebes (now known as Sulawesi) in Indonesia. This snake measured thirty-three feet." Well there we go. That's the largest one on record.

Simply post these pics and encourage others to do so... Educating people on how simple it is to make a small snake look huge is the best way to go on something like this..

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/13/ha8ejare.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/13/2ysaju7e.jpg

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Originally Posted by Artemille

There are a lot of people ignorant about animals in general. Just the other day, a friend on facebook was posting a photo of a dikdik and claiming it was a baby giraffe. Then there was that felt toy bear from etsy that was being shared as a live newborn polar bear.

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These self-alleged animal lovers must love animals so much, they seem to forget to learn about them!:hmm:

Here's a non-snake example.

Giant George, the Great Dane. Yes, he's a huge dog. (I forget if he's the world's tallest or biggest dog - I think it's tallest).

Look at this first picture. Pretty darn big dog, but not too insane.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps3ff0cc0f.jpg

Then look at this photo. Using perspective distortion, it makes him (and the guy's legs) look ABSOLUTELY, RIDICULOUSLY MASSIVE.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps44768150.jpg

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Originally Posted by Konotashi

Here's a non-snake example.

Giant George, the Great Dane. Yes, he's a huge dog. (I forget if he's the world's tallest or biggest dog - I think it's tallest).

Look at this first picture. Pretty darn big dog, but not too insane.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps3ff0cc0f.jpg

Then look at this photo. Using perspective distortion, it makes him (and the guy's legs) look ABSOLUTELY, RIDICULOUSLY MASSIVE.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps44768150.jpg

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I know it's not the point of this post, but I can NOT get over that dude's legs lmao! They're so bizarre haha.

North Carolina? I think not, Indonesia likely (Bangka), it looks like that same photo from last year. It is clearly a big animal but not the monster claimed. I believe it was Richard Shine whom said "these giant pythons always shrink whenever a tape measure turns up" is it not always the truth? I would guess with the bronx zoo offering a large amount of money and nat geo having put up large sums for searches for massive snakes. Anyone actually finding such a thing would be wealthy and have notable and creditable news sources all over it along with accurate and documented measurements.

after doing a tin eye I found this...

http://bangka.tribunnews.com/index.p...dan-alat-berat