Get to pick it up and if it bites him and makes him feel like crap it's venomous but it doesn't and it's head looks like a skink its a legless. And tell him not to play with things when he doesn't know what they are.
do you know him personally? I'd be warning him about it being illegal to catch and keep. its a bandy bandy snake and what a shame to put such an amazing specimen that's a wild animal in a container.
do you know him personally? I'd be warning him about it being illegal to catch and keep. its a bandy bandy snake and what a shame to put such an amazing specimen that's a wild animal in a container.
I'd actually give the guy a break, tell him what it was, and suggest he lets it go because they are very difficult to keep. I'd also thank him for going to the trouble to catch it unharmed and take a photo so he could find out what it was, and just let him know that reptiles are protected in Oz (even though thousands of these things are crushed by cars & bulldozers every week on the east coast).
You don't know if he intended to keep it, so why get so bossy about it?