ANDRE ISSI

Over the last few days as the subject of the alleged Peruvian snake pictures, which - we believe - are most probably nothing of the kind, despite the best intentions of the two blokes who took them, one man has been dragged into the fray much against his will, and - pretty well - undeservedly.


This picture was taken by Andre Issi some years ago, and - according to the man himself - shows an 18ft anaconda, not an animal of 40m as implied by the original press story from the 2009 expedition. Poor Andre. I don't blame him for feeling a bit beleagured at the moment as, following the use of his pictures by various Northern Irish newspapers, people across the Cryptoverse mixed up his claims with those of Greg and Mike Warner.


He also claims, and once again this seems eminently reasonable, that the pictures of him brnadishing a machetre Indiana Jones style, were a "joke", and implies that because none of us can actually speak Portuguese (perfectly true) and therefore had to use computer translation software (also perfectly true) then the nuances of his article were lost in translation.


I think that this is very likely. After all, can you imagine what a non-English speaker would make of some of Richard Freeman's comedy posturings about "Johnny Foreigner" and British "spunk"? Probably wise to not even go there.


So Andre, I hope that you don't feel too badly about us. One day if you are in England or we are in Brazil we will shake hands and I will buy you a beer....