A Gaboon Viper, now that's the snake for me or a Black Mamba.
I saw this show on NGDC( Nat Geo Dis Ch ) and this young guy worked at a reptile zoo. Well he got his supposed 1k hrs and applied for a permit to keep hots. So he get's a few Gaboons. In the meantime he gets bit at work by a Cottonmouth and has to be rushed to the Hosp. then a few months later he gets bit by a Cooperhead, again to the hosp. So he gets fired from his job ( good move on the employers part ) then a little while later this idiot gets bit by his Gaboon and they have to Helicopter his dumb butt to Miami.
Needless to say Fla came and got his Gaboons, Thank God!
I love them and they are beautiful but I know I am not the one to keep one.
I have toyed with the thought of a Cooperhead since they are fairly laid back and are really quite pretty. They are the snakes they use in those back woods churches. But that would be sometime down the road.