Posted on 11/05/2007 5:04:46 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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.
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.
This photo released by the Guinness World Records shows Jackie Bibby in a see-through bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes, in Dublin, Texas, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Bibby spent about 45 minutes in the tub shattering his own record by 12 snakes. (AP Photo/Guinness World Records/Carla Metzler)
“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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I’ll try and remember that if I ever fall on a pile of rattlesnakes, I’ll try real hard. Yup.
It’d be a lot more impressive nekkid. IMHO.
I reckun snakes can smell fear too.. but I agree, doing it nekkid would be real impressive.. not to diminish what he done today. He has a lucky streak going , for sure.
Hey, wait a minute. I go to staff meetings...
“The snakes crawled under his arms, between his legs and anywhere else
they could slither, Bibby said. None bit him.”
This guy must have a day-job as a lawyer.
(No flames please; my lawyer friends would laugh at that as well)
“Don’t need no (*^&(&^*(^*(^ snakes on no (*^&(&^*(^*(^ tub!”
Step-son and friend hold the record for the largest rattler in our county.The local rag has a pic.7’2” without the head.He and his friend was upset that they had killed it.he knew it would be worth a lot more alive.
He hunted them for money as they were paid by the pound....Until Mom went to clean his room.She heard this sound coming from under a makeshift table which the base was a five gallon bucket.Bad JuJu!!!
Come to find out,he was very allergic to snake venom.When he threw the big snake over a fence,even though the snake was dead,the snake’s fangs got him.He almost died.The anti-venom was worse than the bite itself.Imagine your whole body swelling up like a Pumpkin.At least that is what it looked like to me.
Just talked to son and he said Rattlers were going for six dollars a pound.[Circa:eighty’s].Had to drive to Colorado City,TX.,with at least one hundred pounds to make it worthwhile.Dead ones did not count.
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