Sadly, I think we all know it's just a matter of time before some moron does something REALLY tragic garnering major media attention.

Just in recent years we've had the guy found dead near the Arkansas airport with the box full of snakes...a 10 year old (approx.) suffocated by a python and the woman bitten by the cobra some guy was keeping at his place in an aquarium.

We also have the guy that "lost" a sawscale viper in his apt. building (found it in his room later), the cobra found in bushes outside an apt. building (escapee) and the King Cobra (venemoid) found in a guys garage in Florida.

Top it off with the guy that let all kinds of snakes go down in FL and they had to be hunted down after a neighbor found a King Cobra in his front yard.

It's coming folks...someone kid is going to get nailed and killed while playing in his own yard...the owner will be located and do 5-10 years for negligent homicide and the screws will continue to tighten on the hobby.

I'm thinking that some sort of licensing like FL with Felony charges for unlicensed keeperssellers will be the likely outcome.

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