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Dear Corn Snake people: While the ole newt-keeping paperboy considers himeself au fey with Corn snakes in general, I can't for thelife of me figure out the Corn 'morph' depicted in the supporting press photo at the URL below.
Respects
Wes

LAKELAND ECHO (Lancaster, UK) 23 July 08 Snake found in Lancaster city centre
A woman has told of her shock after finding a snake crawling away from her car during a visit to the St Nicholas Arcades shopping centre in Lancaster.
Evelyn Wright, from Bolton-le-Sands, was returning to her car with a parking ticket at around 11.15am last Wednesday, when her husband shouted to her not to come any closer.
"He said there was a snake on the ground," she said. "I thought he was winding me up but then I saw it and I was a bit alarmed because I don't like snakes.
"It must have been four or five feet long."
Mrs Wright raised the alarm with a car park attendant.
It was later identified as a corn snake.
The attendant is thought to have contacted the RSPCA.
Jerry North, manager of St Nicholas Arcades, said: "I've been here for 14 years and we've had all sorts of incidents in the car park but never a snake.
"We haven't a clue where it came from but it's certainly not a native of Lancaster."
Snake found in Lancaster city centre

If that is a picture of the snake in question, it's not a corn snake. Looks like a Boa.

Unless I was looking at the wrong picture, though I didn't see any other snakes in that article >_>

The snake in the photo is definitely a boa, and is probably a stock photo rather than a photo of the snake they found.
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wow. you'd think they'd at least come close to a corn. Even if it was a rat snake. Sheesh.
ya know someone who knows absolutely nothing about snakes is gonna see that picture and forever think that is what a cornsnake looks like!
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****Misty****

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"The more things change, the more they remain Insane"

Thats definietly a boa not a corn snake!

That is typical of newspapers. I had a photographer come to one of my talks. He took several photos of different snakes. The one he printed had me holding a corn snake in the caption, the problem was the snake I was holding was a ball python. Several of my herp friends in the area teased me about not knowing a ball python from a corn snake. Buddy.