Biiiiiigggg Rattlesnake
Guess what was found just south of Jacksonville ..
Near the St. Augustine outlet, in a new KB homes subdivision.
15 foot Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake. Largest ever caught on record.
After seeing this, I did a little research, and learned the following:
One bite from a snake this large contains enough venom to kill over 40 full grown men.
The head alone is larger than the hand of a normal sized man.
This snake was probably alive when George H. W. Bush was President.
A bite from those fangs would equal being penetrated by two 1/4 inch screwdrivers.
A snake this size could easily swallow a 2 year-old child.
A snake this size has an approximately 5 and 1/2 foot accurate striking distance. (The distance for an average size Rattlesnake is about 2 feet)
Judging by the size of the snake, it is estimated to weigh over 170 pounds. How much do you weigh?
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The snake was 7’3″ long, not 15′. It was a little over 14 lbs, not 170 lbs. Try holding 170 lbs on the end of a 6′ aluminum pole. I bet you can’t do it, and neither can Mr. Olympia or the World’s Strongest Man winner from this year. The largest eastern diamondback rattlesnake on record was killed in southern Georgia and was just over 8′ long. I got my information from an interview with the snake handler who actually dispatched the snake in the picture, not hearsay from the internet, although the facts about the size of rattlesnakes is easily accessible online, even on Wikipedia, to anyone who is willing to do more than simply believe everything they read.