WOW ! 40 to 50' long !
hense my personal philosophy about snakes:
"The only good snake ... is a DEAD snake !"
OLBuzzard, I love snakes! We have some of the best rodent predators in the world in the US. In India, they lose 25% of the food they produce to rodents!
Most snakes are harmless and control the rodent population. I am not fond of poisonous snakes, but I'll take corn snakes, milk snakes and king snakes over a horde or rodents, anytime!
Please note that NONE of the snakes I mentioned grow more than five or six feet long. 50 feet is crazy. I"d call in arty on it.