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Yay, a weird animal story! Our favorite! Today's tale: The mysterious 12-foot headless snake! (We're saying that in a spooky haunted-house voice, of course.)
Richard Tylkowski was just paddling around Nippersink Lake, about 55 miles from Chicago, when he saw a giganto snake carcass. Which he pushed onto some rocks and left for a week. As you do.
On Sunday, it was time to haul the corpse ashore and take a measurement. Pulled from the dark water and reeking like an uncleaned aquarium, the snake proved to be headless, with only a long ragged strip of skin where its business end would be.
Tylkowski says he measured the snake and that it's 12 feet, 10 inches long, which is fucking enormous. We tried using What's That Snake? to figure out what kind of snake the headless wonder is, but no luck. No one knows where the snake came from, but reptiles that big aren't native to the region, so if you're missing a 13-foot snake...well, we have some bad news. [Lake County News-Sun]
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What the hell is up with Lake County and dumping snakes?
"on sunday, it was time to haul the corpse ashore and take a measurement."
WTF? it seems to me that this is either something you do *right away* or not. you either take pull it out and take a picture and call all your friends (and the DNR) OR .... you leave that shit alone and never speak of it again, lest your friends and relatives think you're batshit.
how on earth do you pull it out of the water and then come back for it later ... as in, DAYS later?!? nas-tay.
All i read in this thread was "10 inches long, which is fucking enormous"
omg margaret what is wrong with you
this is just. . . beyond me today