This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Batchel with Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales.

We're going to tell a snake story and then a really fun story about Valerie.

But snakes first.

Jeremy, the golf course.

Now, why would you play golf in Australia knowing that things like this happen?

What are they thinking, Jeremy?

I don't know, John. I don don't know but all i can suggest is that where this happened which is tuggara which is in the the central

northern part of new south wiles it is a place that's beautiful does have relatively warm weather

when we're getting it cold here in syd And I think, you know what, people are

just going to play golf, whether they have snakes, whether they have floods, whether they have

anything, because it's just that kind of community. But John, the thing is with this story is

it's not just a snake on a golf course in Tugra in central northern New South Wales. It's actually

a monster snake on a golf course in central northern New South Wales.

And when I say monster, this is a 12-foot great eastern brown snake.

And now, just to put that in perspective, the largest great eastern brown snakes we've

probably ever seen, especially here in Sydney or anywhere else in Australia, have only been

maybe around that six-foot

mark. So this thing is actually a lot, lot bigger than anybody has ever seen. And not only was it

slithering on the golf course, it had actually come from what looks like a suburban area and was

moving quite quickly, which means it probably had just either eaten or it was on

its way to go hunting. So when this 10 to 12 foot monster slid across the open fairway there,

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