Snake in the outback

RATT · 18-01-2008, 03:12 PM

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Photos of a snake caught on an electric fence on a sheep & Cattle station near the NSW town of Nyngan.... Some tourists on Holidays came across the snake caught in an electric fence, being Continually shocked, and getting very angry! The group wondering what to do, decide to divert the current, cut the wire AND let the snake go!

(As you should do). When the property Owner found out he went ballistic, besides being upset about his fence, The snake had been eating lambs in the area, and he'd been trying to Track it for ages. He did not appreciate the help! Australians are used to big snake or two!

Fev · 18-01-2008, 03:24 PM

that thing is huge! wouldnt want those teeth coming near me.. i still want a snake though.. haha sucks to the farmer though, i hope he doesnt catch it.. they are good for the environment, killing rabbits and foxes and feral cats and such

rodderz · 18-01-2008, 05:41 PM

It's a Rock Python from Africa- just swallowed an Impala

http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-python.htm

**EASYBOSS** · 18-01-2008, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by rodderz

It's a Rock Python from Africa- just swallowed an Impala

http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-python.htm

Good info, so a smelling story after all, but is the outback safe, I don't thing so

RATT · 22-01-2008, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by rodderz

It's a Rock Python from Africa- just swallowed an Impala

http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-python.htm

Well there you go. I got that emailed and it seemed unusual that we hadn't seen it anywhere yet.

aye you · 18-01-2008, 03:33 PM

now thats just average lol, need to post this on a yank site

**Raptor** · 18-01-2008, 03:38 PM

No way am I ever camping in the outback again, no way!

It doesn't look very happy does it.

Fev · 18-01-2008, 03:59 PM

you wouldnt be happy if you were stuck in metal wires which continuously shock ya either.. id be tryin to rip it off with my toes if i couldnt use anything else!

Grum · 18-01-2008, 04:05 PM

Um, just wear some decent boots and pull the strands of wire closer together at the other stake, the snake would free itself then.

**EASYBOSS** · 18-01-2008, 04:09 PM

OK, excuse my Kiwi ignorance, but what kind of snake is it? apart from HUGE

Grum · 18-01-2008, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by EASYBOSS

OK, excuse my Kiwi ignorance, but what kind of snake is it? apart from HUGE

Well hung

Grechie · 18-01-2008, 04:11 PM

damn that is huge as!

**EASYBOSS** · 18-01-2008, 04:22 PM

AHHHHHH

A 8 year old pic, if the date was set correctlr on the camera

xr8edute · 18-01-2008, 04:28 PM

Gotta be fake hey..................Please tell me it's fake.

Not joking anymore....just tell me that thing is photoshopped or something.

cheers

5.4 GT · 18-01-2008, 04:29 PM

Yeh I thought i'd seen these pics floating around the net ages ago but had never heard that story go with it.

Daymoe · 18-01-2008, 04:31 PM

I'm going to scare some yanks with this picture. Haha thats huge.

bob 351 · 18-01-2008, 05:03 PM

A shocking experience i would think

**Falcon Coupe** · 18-01-2008, 05:21 PM

This has been around a while, scary looking bugger !

Reminds me of another that did the rounds a while back.

svo347 · 18-01-2008, 05:41 PM

The above pic was taken in wittenoom in wa. There was an article in the West Australian newspaper

Yellow_Festiva · 18-01-2008, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by svo347

The above pic was taken in wittenoom in wa. There was an article in the West Australian newspaper

With the internet, it's hard to know what's fact and whats fiction!

I have seen 2 similar pics of monster beasts. Prob on here?? There was a pic floating round of an ariel shot of a gator in a lake with a deer in its mouth... the deer looked to be of adult size and half way down the throat of the gator.

The other pic was a snake that had swallowed a gator, the gator was so big that it actually burst out of the side of the snake.. it was swallowed alive apparently....

Mark^^ · 18-01-2008, 06:34 PM

Yeap first photo is a African Rock Python and you wont see anyting like that here in Australia.

I think you will also find the second photo of the Olive python is very much a photo chop. Olive pythons average 2 to 4 m, though there have been reports of Olive pythons eating small wallabys, no way they could eat a large roo.

The biggest Australian snake is the Scrub python, growing up to 4 to 5m and found in northern Qld.

S3SR · 22-01-2008, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Mark^^

The biggest Australian snake is the Scrub python, growing up to 4 to 5m and found in northern Qld.

i can vouch for that, mate had a 4m one, bastard tried to kill me.....

thats also the snake that made me appreciate them alot more ... ive even bottled a taipans venom ... good times

Green X · 18-01-2008, 06:43 PM

It would have meat the dangerous end of a 12Ga loaded with BB shots if i found it like that.

Shaggzy · 19-01-2008, 01:59 AM

OMG im a bit under the influence right now but im am soooo scared atm lol

DBourne · 20-01-2008, 10:31 AM

yeah the OP's picture is ancient!

jaydee · 20-01-2008, 12:18 PM

Apparently the farmer was upset because it's been eatin all his lambs, what a croc, they only need to feed once every few months these big pythons, it' not like he eats a lamb every day.
That second one looks like he found a dead roo in the water and is trying to get a free feed.
When I lived in the Kimberelys an old fellah just out of town had a few goats and saw a great big rock python had swallowed one of his goats, story went he shot it with his double barrel and cut the goat out and it survived.
Not sure about that though, because I thought they crushed the life out of their prey first, then swallowed it.
Anyway, great pics.

Ralliart · 20-01-2008, 02:17 PM

omfg that snake is massive

Mark^^ · 20-01-2008, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jaydee

Apparently the farmer was upset because it's been eatin all his lambs, what a croc, they only need to feed once every few months these big pythons, it' not like he eats a lamb every day.
That second one looks like he found a dead roo in the water and is trying to get a free feed.
When I lived in the Kimberelys an old fellah just out of town had a few goats and saw a great big rock python had swallowed one of his goats, story went he shot it with his double barrel and cut the goat out and it survived.
Not sure about that though, because I thought they crushed the life out of their prey first, then swallowed it.
Anyway, great pics.

There a no such animals called a rock python in Australia. I have kept snakes and pythons for over 15 years and still do keep pythons.

In the Kimberly you will se Olive pythons that can be large, but not large enough to eat an adult goat or roo, but they could eat a very young baby, but unlikely they could catch one. They could really only eat nothing bigger than the size of an adult cat.

There are more myths about snakes and pythons then there are about Unicorns.

fou_bleu · 20-01-2008, 02:43 PM

now that is one very small snake! lmfao

FrogInASock · 20-01-2008, 02:55 PM

Refer here:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/fencesnake.asp