The Lemon Fool

Editing standards at the BBC continue to soar toward new lows. This one somehow got through:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-engl ... l-46837225

"Officer Clara Scully, who went to collect the snake, said at 13ft long (almost 4m) "it would stand almost as tall as a giraffe".


Yeah, right. If it went in for pole dancing, maybe, or maybe if it stood on its little itsy-bitsy tippy-toes and waved its long snakey fingers high into the air. Until further notice, it's shorter in stature than the average household cat. Got that?

BJ

They should be sticking to the correct British Standard for height/length comparisons as well
Adult human
London Bus(double decker)
Nelson's Column
Snowdon
Mount Everest
The Sun

bungeejumper wrote:Editing standards at the BBC continue to soar toward new lows. This one somehow got through:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-engl ... l-46837225

"Officer Clara Scully, who went to collect the snake, said at 13ft long (almost 4m) "it would stand almost as tall as a giraffe".


Yeah, right. If it went in for pole dancing, maybe, or maybe if it stood on its little itsy-bitsy tippy-toes and waved its long snakey fingers high into the air. Until further notice, it's shorter in stature than the average household cat. Got that?

BJ

Average household cat? I would imagine that all snakes are shorter in stature than all household cats - unless those cats haven't got any legs.

HYD

Howyoudoin wrote:

bungeejumper wrote:Average household cat? I would imagine that all snakes are shorter in stature than all household cats - unless those cats haven't got any legs.

Maybe, maybe not, apparently the giant anaconda (Eunectes murinus) can grow to a girth of 3 feet so knocking on a foot tall which might challenge some small cats.

https://www.livescience.com/34444-bigge ... snake.html