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| Darwin 0 Man 1 - Breaks own record sittting in tub with 87 rattlesnakes | |
| 2007-11-08 | |
| A man has broken his own world record for sitting in a bath filled with rattlesnakes. Jackie Bibby, from Texas in the US, spent 45 minutes in the transparent bath with 87 rattlesnakes, shattering his own record by 12 snakes. He escaped unbitten. "They can go wherever they want as long as they don't start biting," Bibby said. "The key to not biting is for me to stay still. Rapid movement scares a rattlesnake. If you move real slow and gentle, that doesn't seem to bother them."
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| Posted by:Delphi |
| #5 It also depends on the breed of rattlesnake. Some are relatively peaceful and even personable, unless molested. Others are highly aggressive and ill tempered. On top of that, they are much less inclined to bite when there are a bunch of them together, since their vision is not that hot and they don't want to bite kin by accident. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-11-08 15:55 |
| #4 Some records were never meant to be broken. FYI -- another snake charmer trick is to refrigerate the beasts. Get them cold enough and they can barely move, much less bite. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2007-11-08 12:09 |
| #3 shoot, who hasn't handled their snake in the tub? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-11-08 07:55 |
| #2 As a reptile person my first reaction is were the the snakes "hot" or "cold". "Hot" snakes are in full possesion of their venom, cold snakes have been disabled. This might be pulling fangs, sewing the mouth shut, etc. BTW the snake handling cults never spread out of the hills, according to one author, because unlike copperheads and timber rattlesnakes, eastern diamondbacks don't take to be "free handled". |
| Posted by: bruce 2007-11-08 07:37 |
| #1 Don't forget your kevlar jockstrap or you may well end up getting bitten 87 times. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-11-08 02:29 |