Quote Originally Posted by mrmertz View Post
Oh yeah, we take the boys to a pre-school and do a critter show for them, including Mr. Biggs. The parents all sign a release notice and all the boys get to come out and sniff the air for a while while we talk.

Our daughter took Elvis outta his snake bag (our Kingsnake) and of course all the kids went "Oooooo" and "Aaaaah". The one kid up towards the front raises his hand all excited like, so my wife calls on him. It went something like this...

"Yes, you have a question?"
"Uh-huh. Well, once my Dad and us kids - we found a Kingsnake in our backyard once."
"Really?! Did it look just like Elvis here?"
"Yeah, it did. Then my Dad started whacking it with a shovel and we threw rocks at it."

...sigh...
wow that's not something you wanna hear about. Kid probably didn't know better but the dad seems pretty ignorant. But then again, with people who don't know much about snakes, he was probably just trying to protect his kid.