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World Champion 'Snake Man' Killed by Cobra

#1 Postby TexasStooge » Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:40 am

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Boonreung Buachan, holder of the Guinness Book of World Records title for spending the most time penned up with snakes, was killed by a cobra that bit him during his daily show, a hospital doctor said on Monday.

Boonreung, 34 and dubbed Snake Man, was rushed unconscious to Prai Bung Hospital near his home town, 350 miles northeast of Bangkok, Dr Wipa Praituan told Reuters.

"He was brought here with no signs of life. He wasn't breathing and his heart didn't beat," she said.

Boonreung was listed by the "Guinness Book of World Records" in 1998 after living with snakes in a glass box for seven days.

An epileptic, he went into convulsions after being bitten, but no one took him to the hospital initially because they thought he was suffering an epileptic fit.

Boonreung's father said he would give his son's 30 snakes to a zoo because nobody in the family dared deal with them.

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#2 Postby coriolis » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:19 pm

Sometimes you get the snake, sometimes the snake gets you!
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#3 Postby PTrackerLA » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:50 pm

That's why I don't mess with snakes!
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#4 Postby mf_dolphin » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:30 pm

When you play with fire sometimes you get burned.... RIP
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#5 Postby TexasStooge » Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:29 am

mf_dolphin wrote:When you play with fire sometimes you get burned.... RIP
True that.
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