Quote Originally Posted by AzureN1ght
I know news articles aren't always 100% accurate, but I googled it and found this one, which mentions a "South American King Snake":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_ne...00/4602373.stm
I have been studying kingsnakes for two years now and from all my reading and surfing i have yet to hear of a South American Kingsnake. The article dug up by AzureN1ght clearly shows a banded cali king, if indeed that is the snake in question. I thought the shop owner would have been able to tell the press that it was a cali king, seeing as the shop he owns specializes in reptiles