Time Machine Snapshots are taking too much HDD space

It has taken so far over 155 GB as you can see on this link.
http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g445/comics_addict/ScreenShot2011-11-22at112 226PM.png
It appears under "Other" due to me disabling the snapshots on the terminal but unlike I read it still hasn't erase the items from memory.
Any help?
Thanks for your time.

Local snapshots are periodically condensed into daily or weekly snapshots to minimize the space used on your disk. If your disk is low on space, Time Machine stops creating new snapshots, and some or all existing snapshots may be removed to make space available for applications to use. If sufficient disk space becomes available again, Time Machine resumes creating local snapshots. This means your disk will have the same amount of available space as it would if Time Machine were not enabled.
OS X Lion: About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
Disk Space considerations:
Local snapshots require space on your internal HD (and any other disk/partition that Time Machine is backing-up).  Time Machine will, however, delete some or all as necessary if it gets too full.  The exact criteria are not documented, but appears to vary depending on the size of the volume.  On a very small volume (under about 50 GB), it may be as little as 75%;  on larger volumes (1 TB or more) it may be as much as 90%.  This is doneindependently for each disk/partition.  Time Machine does not send any messages when it deletes snapshots.
Pondini's excellent blog on Time Machine: 30: what are local snapshots?

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