Katrina Rig Damage and Snakes (Hoaxed!)

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Posted: 9/7/2005 5:03:07 PM EDT

My dad just sent me these. Waiting for more info...

UPDATE: Found it on Snopes today. Seems they were originally posted back in Feb 2005, so these are not Katrina related.

www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/snakerig.asp

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:04:26 PM EDT

[#1]

I hate water moccasins.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:05:16 PM EDT

[#2]

Those are some BIG Water Moccasins!

I've never seen more than two of them in the same spot before.

HS1

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:05:24 PM EDT

[#3]

What kind of snake is that? It looks like maybe it just ate something. If it were me, I'd be eating snake that night.

For the snake lovers, I like snakes to as pets ans meals.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:06:13 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Those are some BIG Water Moccasins!

I've never seen more than two of them in the same spot before.

HS1

HUGE

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:07:44 PM EDT

[#5]

Well, here is the question, do water moccasins taste good, and are they poisonous?

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:09:19 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Well, here is the question, do water moccasins taste good, and are they poisonous?

Very poisonous.

Very agressive.

Never, Never seen them that big and I have see a bunch.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:09:27 PM EDT

[#7]

I hate snakes....

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:10:28 PM EDT

[#8]

Terminate with extreme prejudice !!!

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:10:52 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Well, here is the question, do water moccasins taste good, and are they poisonous?

Very poisonous.

Veey agressive.

Never, Never seen them that big and I have see a bunch.

Now, do they taste good?

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:12:55 PM EDT

[#10]

If I had to fix that rig it would be broken for a looooooong time. I can't decide if the snake in the third picture looks pissed, hungry, or both.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:13:48 PM EDT

[#11]

Dahym!

That's a huge fuckin' snake...

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:14:07 PM EDT

[#12]

I saw these pics well before Katrina, they are from a prior huricane

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:14:15 PM EDT

[#13]

Holy fucking shit I never even knew they could get that big.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:15:06 PM EDT

[#14]

Looks like 12 ga fodder to me.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:15:07 PM EDT

[#15]

Got a house filled with water and forced to leave?

Dump some cottonmouths in it!

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:15:19 PM EDT

[#16]

A shotgun is in order.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:15:35 PM EDT

[#17]

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:15:58 PM EDT

[#18]

I hate fuckin' snakes.

Danny

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:22:58 PM EDT

[#19]

I have to agree, those are some HUGE Water Moccasins

Is this rig very far out in the gulf or is it right off land?

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:31:41 PM EDT

[#20]

I particularly hate water moccasins. They are very agressive and territorial, even if you're in a boat. But better a boat, than swimming when one comes your way.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:40:01 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Very agressive.

When my son was about 12 he found one sitting in a muddy tire rut in the backyard.

He ran in and grabbed the first thing he could which was a 30-30.

He fired from about 3" away and about 10 lbs of mud and snake flew skyward.

When the whole mess came back to earth, the 4' snake had been blown into pieces.

The head with less than a foot of body still attached was still VERY interested in continuing the fight and had to be shot again!

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:42:09 PM EDT

[#22]

That is the some of the largest water mocs I have ever seen.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:43:21 PM EDT

[#23]

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:45:01 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Terminate with extreme prejudice !!!

RFN!

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:46:10 PM EDT

[#25]

wanna see big moc's?? go to lake scott king in southern oklahoma.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:46:28 PM EDT

[#26]

Shit.

Thanks for sharing.

Hope he's well and that he's armed.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:48:11 PM EDT

[#27]

Put some kind of warning in the title next time, asswipe!

(willies)

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:50:08 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
The head with less than a foot of body still attached was still VERY interested in continuing the fight
and had to be shot again!

DAYUM!

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:51:37 PM EDT

[#29]

One of the worst feelings you can ever have is to be swimming in a southern river or pond and see a water moccasin head weaving through the water toward you.

Ask me how I know...

On second thought, an alligator snout and eyes coming up on you from behind can be just as bad, if not worse.

Personal experience with that one too...

BTW, I'm surprised I lived to see 20.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:52:01 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Shit.
Thanks for sharing.
Hope he's well and that he's armed.

Unless Katrina made it all the way to Illinois, he's fine. Like me, he has a cushy software developer job, not real work like drilling for oil.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:54:15 PM EDT

[#31]

Those are some sho' nuff Cottonmouths right there! Seldom have I ever seen one approaching that size around here. Like to have one of those hides on the wall though.

Posted: 9/7/2005 5:57:41 PM EDT

[#32]

There goes any thoughts of working on rig repair....

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:06:28 PM EDT

[#33]

Can't tell you how many times I have shot at a moc and missed, only to have him turn towards me and start coming! Can make you get off that follow-up shot rather quickly!

I've also had them swim down the side of a 19' ski-boat striking the side of the hull.

There is one episode where Steve Erwin (Crocodile Hunter) catches a moc. He very gingerly catches it by the tale and very quickly drops it in a sack and ties the top. No playing with him and showing him off.

Those fella's will get ya...

Gus

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:07:40 PM EDT

[#34]

Remember that scene from Lonesome Dove, where the Ricky Schroder character fell off his horse while crossing the river into a group of twenty or thirty of them. He was screaming and twisting in the water, got bit to death.

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:11:57 PM EDT

[#35]

DAMN

All we have here that are dangerous are Western Diamondback rattlers. Pretty small as far as poisonous snakes go.

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:12:09 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Remember that scene from Lonesome Dove, where the Ricky Schroder character fell off his horse while crossing the river into a group of twenty or thirty of them. He was screaming and twisting in the water, got bit to death.

Wasn't Ricky Schroder. His character survived the series.

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:16:59 PM EDT

[#37]

Water mocs definately are not making it..

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:17:24 PM EDT

[#38]

Nice red "X's".

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:24:31 PM EDT

[#39]

That is the only snake I kill on sight.

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:30:09 PM EDT

[#40]

As bad as those bastards stink, and as many of them as there are, can you imagine the smell?

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:32:08 PM EDT

[#41]

Them's some fatties ! Guessing the rat population there's pretty substantial.

Think I'd shit a brick if I saw one of them swimming towards me.

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:34:00 PM EDT

[#42]

Cottonmouths are the reason I leave the alligators alone. Those are normal size for the south.

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:36:10 PM EDT

[#43]

They're born pissed off and their attitude deteriorates from then on.....when they are just born they look exactly like northern copperheads.,,,,,,By the way, the ones in the pics are just about average for this part of Florida. Had a buddy step on a small one on a sandy road & failed to kill it, moved his foot off and it literally chased him 15 or so feet to his truck whereon he again steped on it's head....Asked me what the hell he was gonna do now.....handed him my pocket knife between laughs & suggested he remove the forward end of it before he moved his foot again!

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:36:41 PM EDT

[#44]

Tag for more pics

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:38:20 PM EDT

[#45]

Uh put the camera down, pick up your gun and

KILL THEM ALL !!!!!!!!

Posted: 9/7/2005 6:38:40 PM EDT

[#46]

We have quite a few of them that big on our river, they wont mess with you if you dont mess with them, theyll swim away before you can get to close, most of the time. I like hunting and catching snakes.