If you don’t like snakes, boy, you’re not going to like this video.
But if you didn’t like it, just think what the chickens must have felt.
A viral video purports to show how a massive snake that was apparently snagging some poultry for himself ended up getting caught in a booby trap instead — just inches from a live fowl set up as bait.
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The video was posted by Facebook user Jonny Lucas on June 21 with a simple message: “Trying to catch who’s been stealing the chickens…”
The video opens with the image of a muddy pond cordoned off by a simple fence of wood..
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At the middle of it was a blue pipe with a chicken at the end of it. And then we all found out who was stealing the chickens.
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I get the feeling that Paul Hogan should be narrating this: “Now that’s a snake.”
Somehow, the rather improvised trap works and the anaconda is caught, but not without a struggle. Crazy stuff, and one Facebook users a little nervous — and maybe a little envious.
“Where there’s one, more are out there. Wow,” Luqman Mu’min wrote.
“Never visiting that part of the world,” Teri Stevens said.
Ivan Bonilla may have put it best: “how do i build me one of those.”
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A chicken, a pipe, a muddy pond, a tree, some driftwood and a lot — and I mean a lot — of moxie. Or a good camera angle and some creative captioning.
See, as Snopes points out, it’s actually not as big of a snake as it appears. The chicken at the end of the pipe was actually a baby chick and the “logs” that made up the fence were actually a lot smaller than you might expect.
Now, that’s still an awfully big anaconda, and certainly not something I’d want in my backyard. However, it doesn’t look like it would be a candidate for the starring role in a movie with Ice Cube and/or Owen Wilson trying to kill it — like a certain unintentional comedy of 20 years ago.
Given that snakes are neither Republicans nor Christians, I’m pretty sure that generally unreliable Snopes can be trusted on this one, too to a certain extent. The article might have exaggerated what the video makers were trying to achieve, but it also doesn’t even mention President Donald Trump once, either. That’s admirable restraint.
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Either way, it’s still a fun video to show someone who’s afraid of snakes.
As for the snake, he probably should have gotten a job and bought his chicken at Popeyes like the rest of us. (Or maybe Boston Market if they’re feeling healthy.) Instead, he decided on a life of crime — and he paid the ultimate price.
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