"::darkshadows::" <bloody@mary.org> wrote in
news:0v71j397djemrc8dv5h0sauo8hg5sof14k@4ax.com:
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> Texan sets record with 87 snakes in tub
>
> Mon Nov 5, 7:53 PM ET
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> 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.
>
>
Pity you people have nothing better to occupy your time with LOL.
Mercury.
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