I'm very excited about getting my BP (Only a week now!!!) and I've been talking about the snake and other reptiles I've seen in stores and shows here in Calgary (which are pretty good, surprisingly!)
One of my coworkers came up with this after I talked about my BP:
Her: Oh, yeah. I love reptiles. My friend has a komodo dragon!
Me: They what
Her: You know a komodo dragon! yeah! He keeps it under the counter at his video store!
Me: You do know that they're very endangered, smell like death, and are about three metres long?
Her: No it smells fine. It's not that big maybe it's still a baby though.
Me: Aside from the obvious dangers, do you know how incredibly illegal a komodo dragon would be to keep, assuming it didn't kill you first?
Her: No he really has one
Me: where does he keep all th dead antelope carcasses then to feed it?

My manager jumped in too, and she's a zoology major, but she stands firm that her buddy owns a komodo dragon. In Calgary, Alberta, Canada! We started suggesting Bearded dragons, monitors, and all kinds of other things. Nope, it's a komodo dragon guys!
What outlandish stories have people told you about reptiles?

I also have an entire third grade class that my mom works with worried sick that my ball python will eat me. Those kids are so cute. They're still convinced, even after I wrote them an email all about ball pythons and how they can't kill me.