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Originally Posted by flatbutt

Red next to black is a friend?

Correct, king snake is not a danger noodle.
The danger noodle is a coral snake which has red and yellow together.

Although snake people will say "don't use the rhyme to determine which is safe and which isn't". Lots of snakes can have "aberrant coloration" so you could run across a coral snake that was just red and black or mostly black with very little red or yellow or....