Why'd it have to be snakes....

My mother's cousin sent me these as part of a "news" item about work going on at the Orlando Airport. I've seen them before and checked them out at, www.snopes.com, which is a handy reference for all those "lost child" and "factual" emails you sometimes get innundated with. These pictures, by the way, turned out to be bogus, at least as regards the news item they were attached to.


These were supposedly found in a drainage pipe. 87 of the suckers....


And this cute little guy was supposed to be at the same place as the snakes. He's allegedly 18'2". Now, this may not be a real photo of a real situation, but I am here to tell you that they DO get to be that big. My husband and I were motoring down the Aucilla River in a REALLY tiny boat, when I spotted a downed tree. Except the "downed tree" moved. In fact, it crawled right into the water opposite of where we were trying to turn our little motorboat into a cigarette racer.