Snake story turns out to be hoax

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I’ve read about this snake before. Snopes.com says the picture came out in 2005 but from another part of Texas. Then later the same picture was used with a story of a snake in Missouri. Now this story comes out, and the snake is back in Texas. The first story even had a recipe for Snake Steaks (deep-fried rattlesnake)! Evidently the picture is true, but the certainty of the story is undetermined. However, there’s got to be a good illustration in there somewhere, even if it is that stories can grow as big as snakes can in Texas!

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