Evidently I've been wrong all these years, at least according to a self-described "expert" I ran into at the coffee shop. He claimed to have once owned a fer-de-lance, a coral snake, a cobra, a mamba, various pythons and boas, and what all. Proceeded to lecture me about how boas only live in the tropics and that the snake in my hands was a common bullsnake, which he sees all the time. Go figger. A little Jeff Corwin goes a long way. I don't generally collect but this guy is so docile I brought him home for a visit. Doesn't even stink like your usual boa.
