Close Call with a King Cobra

[infernalis]

With all due respect... Kim, I trust you with hots. No contest.

However, when any Tom, Rick & Harry with a paypal account can simply click "order now" and have a Cobra or Mamba in their possession while living in an apartment building, populated neighbourhood or near a primary school, then I have a problem with it.

If the (often illegally) internet ordered snake should escape, (think this scenario, once it bites the owner, it's going to flee) and enters a populated area, it puts innocent people at mortal risk.

Should firefighters have to enter a burning building (a mortal risk already) only to be bitten by a scared venemous snake who's cage just broke from the heat??

Saying that hots belong in the hands of private keepers is like saying that we should be able to purchase explosives at wal mart.

Certain animals simply don't belong in the private pet trade, because unfortunatly, for every one of us with common sense, there is 2 dozen people who have none.