Someone who owns snakes and makes comments like "These morons also referred to it as a poisonous snake, when anyone with half a brain could see it wasn't a viper, cobra or rattlesnake" shouldn't really be making those comments when they themselves look like the moron.
Well, it's a non-venomous snake, and they thought it was venomous and therefore killed it...
For every 15-foot python out in the Everglades, there are thousands of species of clams, trees, cats, grasses and birds that are wrecking just as much havoc across the globe. So, for all the headaches the snakes are causing, I at least applaud them for being scary enough to get people's attention.