Anyone Else Think This Is Fake?

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The story behind this image is that this is a fifteen foot long Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Yes you read that right. A 15 foot rattlesnake). This snake was supposedly found near Jacksonville, FL. I've seen a few Eastern Diamondback's in my day, but nothing over about five feet long. The idea of one three times the size of the largest one that I've ever seen in person is just mind boggling to the point I'm tempted to say this is fake as fake can be. What about you guys? Is this monster of a rattlesnake even possible?
 
Yea, that's what I thought. But even at only seven feet long, that's still abnormally large.
 
Not 15'.

Anytime someone has the snake/animal close to the camera and other stuff way behind it, it will look huge.
They use a wide angle lens setting to do this. Thats how they did it with Hogzilla a few years back.
 
When I was a lad, I was quite the amateur herpetologist. Read everything I could get my hands on, including the big "Snakes Of The World" by Ditmars.
He said the Eastern Diamondback attained a length of 9 feet at times.

Now, that was almost 50 years ago, and the book likely older. It may be that very large specimens are increasingly rare due to population pressure, habitat degredation, and so forth.
 
For years every comment I heard about rattlers mentioned they were exactly 6' long !!! HAHA

I just saw on the news about an idiot who was house cleaning and found a snake. He poured gasolene on it and set it on fire !The snake took off into a brush pile and set the house on fire and lost his house !!
And this happened in Texas !!
 
When I was five years old and fishing with my dad I walked up on one on a woods trail that was about 25 feet long.

Or so it seemed at the time.:D
 
Ken44 said:
Not 15'.

Anytime someone has the snake/animal close to the camera and other stuff way behind it, it will look huge.
They use a wide angle lens setting to do this. Thats how they did it with Hogzilla a few years back.
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Old photography trick called "forced perspective", also used in some scenes for the actors in the Lord of the Rings as "small" hobbit sizes.
 
The media does what it does, embellishes and exaggerates details of events in order to make them larger than life in order to attract attention. They don't fact check anymore. Who's going to fact check a big snake story anyway? Puff pieces are for entertainment purposes, not exactly "news" worthy.
 
There is a nice sized "rat snake" I think its called. It looked like a diamond back to me bit I'm legally blind in one eye. And it was standing up I could say and at about 2 feet high. From what I understand they can only stand up 1/3 of their body max. So if it was 5-6 feet, not aggressive or poisonous it was still too big and too close to me
 
MikeH said:
When I was five years old and fishing with my dad I walked up on one on a woods trail that was about 25 feet long.

Or so it seemed at the time.:D
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I can clearly relate to this Mike! :eek:

Blessings,

Omar
 
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