Snakehead

The only good cobra is a dead cobra:

Authorities in the German city of Muelheim spent 100,000 euros on a three week mission to recover a missing snake -- only to discover it had died.

After the highly poisonous monocled cobra escaped from its container in March, fire services cleared the entire apartment block, removed all the furniture and gutted the owner's flat.

They then sealed all the doors and windows of the building, so the 30 cm (1 foot) long reptile couldn't get out, and set large sticky traps to catch it...

Officials finally found the snake lying dead in the rooftop apartment of its 19-year-old owner

If you're stupid enough to keep a cobra as a "pet," you deserve to pay 100,000 Monopoly dollars for your idiocy.

That's unlikely to happen, however:

It was unclear if the city would get its money back, because the man is currently unemployed.

What a surprise. Sell him to the zoo for snake food.