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Texan sets record with 87 snakes in tub
Mon Nov 5, 7:53 PM ET
DUBLIN, Texas - Another day, another bizarre world record for Jackie
Bibby, the "Texas Snake Man." Bibby spent about 45 minutes in a
see-through bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes Monday, fully clothed,
shattering his own record by 12 snakes just in time for Guinness World
Records Day, which is Thursday. A Guinness official certified the
record.
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The snakes crawled under his arms, between his legs and anywhere else
they could slither, Bibby said. None bit him.
"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."
Bibby sat in the dry tub with a pillow behind him, wearing regular
clothing. The snakes were not defanged and still contained their
venom, he said.
The clear bathtub was specially made several years ago for Bibby by
the Guinness folks for a televised segment. He has used it for
subsequent attempts at the record for sitting in a tub with snakes.
"I have set several world records in that bathtub," Bibby said.
The record was Bibby's latest grab at glory. Last year he set a
Guinness-certified record by holding 10 rattlesnakes by their tails in
his mouth at once. He said he hopes to break that record Tuesday by
squeezing in an 11th.
The Texas Snake Man also claims to hold non-sanctioned records for
climbing into a sleeping bag head first with 20 rattlesnakes and going
in feet first with 112.
Dublin is about 120 miles southwest of Dallas.
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