Amazing footage shows a man playing with a deadly cobra he tamed and kept as a pet.<br /><br />In the video, reptile lover Christopher Shannon is seen lightly pecking his eight-year-old pet cobra named Aspire in the chin inside their home in Southern Thailand on May 16.<br /><br />He said: "Aspire has become used to me, so there's a type of trust that is mutual. You don’t hurt me and I don’t hurt you. We aren’t on their menu so they have no reason to bite us."<br /><br />King cobras are among the most deadly snakes in the world and are responsible for thousands of deaths every year in Southeast Asia.
