BIG snake!

Originally Posted by kgoings

Its an optical allusion. He is holding the snake close to the camera with a pitch fork or something with a long handle, therefore it looks HUGE!

But that is a big damn snake!

I don't know about that, Snopes says that's what they did here: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals...tler.asp#photo and that they average 5.5 feet and the biggest might approach 8 feet. Either way, it's still a very large specimen.