I know given the current state of things in the reptile community, this isn't good that they are referring to it as a burmese python.

But I have to say, (and I'm sure this will make me a bit unpopular, oh well) I really bugs me when people in the reptile community start acting like elitist jerks making comments like "What an idiot, how could they not know its just a ball python!" Why exactly WOULD they know what species it is? Do we really expect that everyone should know enough about snakes to identify species? This reminds me a lot of the software industry when IT guys love to talk about how stupid the end user is, as though they should be expected to know why their kernel is crashing. How many of you before you ever got into this hobby could identify a burmese from a ball?