Oh, wacky Internet

I was reading a Wikipedia article on how to catch a snake, just out of curiosity, and it became clear why it's not always a good idea to let everyone edit articles. The whole thing is very serious until you hit this graph (edited slightly for readability):

Some venomous snakes, like the deadly Coral Snake, have harmless look-alikes, like the King Snake. Luckily for all involved, Coral Snakes and King Snakes inhabit radically different environments so individuals of both species are rarely if ever found together in the same place. But if you should ever find yourself in a room filled with an admixture of both King and Coral snakes commanded to eliminate you at all costs, when trying to tell the two apart, remember this phrase: Red on yellow, kill a fellow; red on black, venom lack. What this means is that the Coral Snake has red bands directly next to yellow bands. The King Snake has red bands directly next to black bands, and a tiny snake crown and snake scepter, which it continuously drops, lacking hands. This brings us to another method for distinguishing a Coral from a King Snake: King Snakes will often politely ask you to replace their tiny, snake crowns. Coral Snakes on the other hand abhor the trappings of the pomp ones. This goes a long way toward explaining the main reasons that Coral Snakes are found in mountainous areas: their hatred of rank and general misanthropy.

A couple graphs later it also goes into great detail about how to avoid getting bit in the crotch, which is certainly important, but probably not part of the original article.

I can't wait until some kid puts in his school report that one of the ways to distinguish king and coral snakes is to look for the snake crown and scepter, though.