What gets me,is that it's bad enough for them to take chances with their own lives,but they have absolutely no right to put the lives of their families,pets,neighbors,and emergency personnel at risk that way.All it takes is ONE TIME for one of these snakes to get loose,and bite some innocent bystander,or get out in the neighborhood,and someone has to pay with their life for this person's selfishness.
I know it's not all that likely,but it's just stupid and selfish for them to even risk it all for the pleasure of feeling "macho" because they keep an extremely dangerous snake.
It's probably an urban legend,but have you ever heard anything about some cobras that are supposedly descended from some that got loose somewhere near Miami and have colonised? It sounds ridiculous,but until I started reading at that website,I didn't realise how many people are keeping these exotic hot snakes,very dangerous ones. A lot of these people keep many different species,and they breed them for resale to other idiots.