It's hard to believe they can get that big. What a monster.
I saw on the news the other day that there was a boa that tried to eat an alligator somewhere in Florida. They mentioned that the snake has either escaped or had been released by it's owner (probably because the neighborhood ran out of small to medium sized animals).
Is that a photoshop job? I wouldn't want to be anywhere near that close to a rattler that big, and the man doesn't look like he is working all that hard to support the snake. I think a rattler that big would weigh a bunch.