My wife told me a story about a woman who had one as a pet. The lady let the snake sleep in bed with her at night. It wasn't eating and she was getting worried, so she took it to the vet. The vet said the snake was starving itself in preparation to eat the woman.
It seems more doable seeing pictures of people actually owning them, but at the end of the day, it's still a freaking snake!!! And those are the snakes that coil around you and kill you.