Why do people keep wild animals as if they were pets?

This guy had million of bees in his driveway.  Want to raise your kids next door?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57499062-504083/millions-of-bees-confiscated-from-ny-mans-driveway/

Then there was the face-eating chimpanzee:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226985/Woman-face-torn-crazed-chimp-speaks-time.html

This fool kept a tiger in his apartment:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319070/I-kept-500lbs-tiger-tiny-apartment--attacked-New-Yorkers-unique-relationship-unusual-pet.html

And here's a boa owner who got fatally constricted by his "pet":

http://www.newser.com/story/92153/pet-boa-constrictor-kills-owner.html

But here is my personal favorite... urban legend?  Perhaps:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/hippoeatsdwarf.asp

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