but this is mostly about how the media fiddles with numbers.
The AP item on Yahoo news and this paper report it as a 16 foot (4.88 meter)
snake that consumed a 76 pound (34.47 kilogram) deer. Another paper said the
snake was between 16 and 18 ft, so not too precise and a bit of decimal dust in
the numbers above.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Huge-python-found-in-Florida-had-eaten-a-deer-2241725.php
Obviously, no one in Florida is of foreign origin and everyone understands
Customary, so may as well strip out the metric.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/8479673-418/deer-eating16-foot-python-killed-in-florida.html
Of course, readers in the UK can't understand it unless the deer is converted
to stones (5st 6lb) and no metric.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054968/Peckish-python-16ft-long-snake-South-Florida-Everglades-adult-deer-stomach.html
(caution, this last link has some gross photos)
I'm sure the Canadian and Australian press would have used metric but had the
good taste not to cover the story.
