Jacksonville woman's encounter with 'giant' rattlesnake goes viral
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Imagine running into a six-foot-long rattlesnake in an open field. Scary, right? But that's exactly what happened to a Jacksonville woman and friends in the Oakleaf area Sunday.
Lindsey Nilsen uploaded three images and a video clip of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake to Facebook about 11:30 a.m. Monday. The post has been shared nearly 44,000 times since then.
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"Ain't he a beaut!!" Nilsen wrote, adding that the sighting was made near Argyle Forest Boulevard and Branan Field Road.
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"That is a big [expletive] rattlesnake right there, dude," a man can be heard saying in the video clip. "... Oh my god, that [expletive] is like six foot."
The snake can be seen lingering near the person filming the encounter before slithering off into taller grass in the distance.
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