Yeah, I've seen some big ones when I was younger living in Maryland. Used to live in Harford County. There was an old abandoned building behind my house where I live with my parents, on the other side of a stream bordering our property. I used to go over there and there were a good half dozen REALLY big black rats that would be in a tree next to this old building. I discovered that if I put my hand in the lower branches and made it look like a fluttering bird, they would ALL come down to investigate it.
One day I went over there and I found them all DEAD, shot with .22s it looked like. That is about the only time in my life that I feel for certain that I would have murdered someone if the person who did that had still been there. Those snakes weren't harming anyone at all, and some yahoo went over there and killed them for nothing but the "fun" of it.
