Snakes and no ladders
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg Peter Snyman, the Johannesburg carpenter who hopes to set the world record for staying inside a cage with killer snakes, was still there yesterday. Mr Snyman entered "the cage at tile Hartebeespoort snake park, 80km from Johannesburg, on Saturday, pledging to stay inside the 9sq. m cage for 40 days. The record, set by Mr
I rev or Kruger in the same cage in 1975, is 36 days, Mr Kruger was killed in a car crash several weeks later. Mr Snyman is accompanied inside the cage by 24 venomous snakes: six black mambas, six puff adders, six Egyptian cobras, and six tree snakes, called “boomslang” in South Africa, The snake park’s curator, Mr Jack Seale, said
Mr Snyman had barely missed suffering a fatal bite from a black mamba on Sunday. “He thought there was a fly on him, and he became quite annoyed with it, as he was to sit absolutely still inside the cage,” Mr Seale said. “He was going to give it a quick smack when he realised that it wasn’t a fly at all, but the flicking of a black mamba’s tongue.”
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