[from occupied ga]

It strikes me as seriously dumb to keep a venomous snake. I like snakes as much as the next person and have had them for pets (boa, rat snake, king snake), but keeping one that can kill you if you make one mistake? Not a good idea.

[TexasGator]

“It strikes me as seriously dumb to keep a venomous snake.”

as a pet.

Even more dumb to kiss them ...

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2015/04/23/florida-man-bitten-while-kissing-venomous-snake/26230489/

[ZULU]

Keeping venomous snakes is for experienced serious herpetologists, not amateur juvenile showmen. If you are crazy enough to keep one, you should have anti-venin specific to that snake available and be sure you are not alergic to horses. And you sure as hell should not be taking them on road trips.

Feel sorry for the guy, the snake, and anyone it might encounter.

[TangibleDisgust]

it strikes me as seriously dumb that we don’t have laws preventing the importation of animals like this as pets.

loom at what’s happened to a the everglades because a few morons decided that their pet pythons were too much hassle to take care of and decided to secretly let them go in the wild.

non-native invasive species are a problem.

deadly non-native invasive species are a bigger problem.

f’ing morons. shaking my head at the rampant stupidity of people on this planet.