New World Record!!!!

I forgot to attach the link. Here it is.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031230/od_nm/snake_dc

One kind of strange thing is that the article says that the snake is a boy. The giant ones are usualy chick snakes.

That's one big beautiful monster retic but I really don't know about 49 feet. They keep saying the same stats over and over but that's like almost twice the size of Bob Clark's Fluffy. It seems like a snake that huge would just really stand out when you look at the pics. I've seen about 5 so far and it really doesn't look much bigger than other giants that only measure 25 feet or so. Just my opinion. It would be awesome if it was real though. Fist time the record has been broken in like 90 years or so? Would probably take twice as long or a nuclear catastrophe to create another snake that big. You realize to a 49 foot snake, a human being would be like a quick snack. I can't even grasp what that really looks like. That's longer than a school bus. Damn. Sorry, it just amazes me. While I don't have any at the moment, (got rid of mine because of space issues) retics have to be the snakes I respect and admire the most.

It is a huge snake, but I think that you're right. I think that it's a hoax. The article has a little video with it. In the video, people are shown near the snake. It doesn't look like there's any way that the snake is almost 50' long. Very cool though.

Once again, if it sounds way to good to be true, it probably is.

Just saw this photo in my morning paper

I just saw the video, there is no way that snake is 49 feet.

5 or 6 K9s a month hahahaha no way

Just an update, but the keeper of this snake was found to be retarded. After real measurements were taken by british reporters it was found to be about 21 feet long. The keeper said that it was because it hasn't eaten recently and that it stretches lots. A proper weight wasn't available but estimates of 100kg were more realistic.

LOL. ive been waiting hear that its BS. i saw that video too and theres no way its 49' long...

Yeah, not as much mainstream press regarding the fact that the snake is actually 21 feet. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

By taking a pic at that angle I can show the world my 11 foot 80lb cornsnake. ;-)

Its pretty Big, even though it isnt 49foot its pretty Big

****ers must been high on opium or something when they were measuring it...

that snake is 29 feet they got it from a tribe in india suposidly they wershipe a giant reticulated python and there was a zoo keeper who herd about the snake and wanted it for his zoo so after a year of nagoshiating they finelly got it and when there measured it it was 29 feet and they think that over that year the tribe hide the real 1 and found the biggest 1 they could so they would not have to get rid of the real 1.

REPTILE MAGAZINE POSTED ONE FROM SINGAPORE IN SEPT97 OF A RETIC THAT IS 33FT LONG THAT IS 9.4METERS IT WAS CAUGHT BREAKING INTO THE SINGAPORE ZOO EATING DEER SO BIG RETICS ARE THERE ...MAYBE 30 TO 35 FT RANGE BUT 49 IS A LITTLE MUCH DONT YOU THINK