You have to check out this article for the picture alone. Nguyen Tai Thu, who is interviewed for the piece, is a prominent professor of acupuncture from a hospital in Vietnam. Apparently, he's known for his "snake needles." These needles are 80 cm's long! That's 31.5 inches!! You can thank your lucky stars that you ended up in my office and not staring down the barrel of a needle that's almost as big as you are. = )