Whats the worst BP Myth you've ever heard?

[redshepherd]

Oh here's a fun one... earlier this year, I did an experiment on ball python feeding habits (and whether conditioning seems to do anything to help) and brought it to school. The parents of other kids came in to look and one came up to me and said something to the effect of, "What?! Pythons? Honestly, what kind of parent would let their kids have one of these? Let alone more than one! Don't they know that Satan is inside each one? They are nothing but cold blooded killing machines." Looking down at me disgustedly, he began to lecture me about how one day my pets would "grow to be twenty feet long and eat me before escaping to the wild and would eat children playing on the streets". It was like he expected me to go home and kill every one of them. I was struggling between laughing, being angry and being a little scared of this guy. So I did what any irritated teenager would do... ok, maybe not. I told him every ball python fact I could remember and stuff into five minutes. I started by telling him where they were from, the burrows they live in, what size they grow to, how they're considered sacred in some places, what they eat, their defensive behavior, their color morphs, prices of various morphs, personalities, housing, heating, lighting (or lack thereof), how to breed them and why they make great pets. Yes, I can speak very quickly. Looking quite stunned with wide eyes and a half open mouth, the guy backed away slowly and walked off while I was in the middle of a sentence. I watched him wandering around for a while looking a bit dazed. A boy from my class was just standing nearby with his eyebrows raised before he laughed a little. Don't insult my pets. I will overload your brain.

Oh hey... I've also gotten the "spawn of Satan" thing that apparently applies to all snakes. Except from one of my friends, half jokingly.

I'm sorry friend, but they are simply another boring reptile that hides in a hole and sleeps all day and eats some rats and rolls into a ball when they're frightened. Spawn of Satan is really too grand.