http://snakegetters.com/hk/hotcare.html
The hobbyists that keep poisonous snakes as pets refer to themselves and their pets as “Hot Herps”.
It takes a very special kind of moron to keep a poisonous reptile when there is no antivenom locally available.
Pythons only hug you to death.
I can’t believe it is even legal to keep poisonous snakes, especially any that are not native to the area. Cobras? Are they out of their friking minds? Then there is the risk to others when they inevitably escape.
I caught and kept non poisonous snakes as a kid, but it was a rotten thing to do to deprive them of their freedom, and the rodent killing/rattler killing benefits. If they are raised in captivity that is a bit different, but taking them out of their natural habitat was just selfish.
Kids don’t think much beyond their own selfish desires.
It’s venomous, not poisonous.
It’s venomous not poisonous and those “special kinds of morons” as you so ignorantly refer to them are the very reason that there is anti venom available at all.
I don’t keep hots but I know many people that do. My friend has a collection that he milks about once a week. From just one snake, per milking, he gets about $2500. Now, multiply that by about 50 snakes and you see why people do it.
The situation with this cobra is interesting. From people in the investigation, it appears that the situation was a suicide. The snake wouldn’t have lived long in the environment there had it not been run over. People are making a huge deal out of what is really a minor issue.