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World Champion 'Snake Man' Killed by Cobra
Reuters ^
| Mon, Mar 22, 2004
Posted on 03/22/2004 7:54:23 AM PST by presidio9
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blackmamba; cobra; oops; ouch; snakes; thailand; timothytreadwell; venom; workaccident; worldrecord
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posted on
03/22/2004 7:54:27 AM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Whoops!
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posted on
03/22/2004 7:55:30 AM PST
by
Guillermo
(Your own personal Konservative Klick-Guerilla)
To: presidio9
You can fool some snakes some of the time...
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posted on
03/22/2004 7:56:02 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
To: presidio9
He threw the dice and got snake eyes.....
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posted on
03/22/2004 7:58:27 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(The makeup they use on Katie tomorrow will be a total waste of money.)
To: presidio9
Live by the snake, Die by the snake........
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posted on
03/22/2004 7:58:27 AM PST
by
nuconvert
("America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins." ( President Bush 3-20-04))
To: mhking
ping
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posted on
03/22/2004 7:59:30 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does)
To: nuconvert
If you play with snakes, your going to get bit..
World-record holding Snake Man 12,267
Cobras 1
Some contests, you can't afford to lose.
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posted on
03/22/2004 8:00:39 AM PST
by
vollmond
To: presidio9
Darwin nominee for 2004.
9
posted on
03/22/2004 8:00:58 AM PST
by
buffyt
(There won't be a domestic agenda to worry about unless we deal with this threat to our existence.RL)
To: presidio9
Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.
10
posted on
03/22/2004 8:01:24 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(So you're a feminist - isn't that cute!)
To: presidio9
what the heck did he expect? He was begging for it!!!!!
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posted on
03/22/2004 8:01:37 AM PST
by
Walnut
To: No Blue States
I thought that saying was If you play with fire,
you are going to get burned. But it works for poisonous snakes, too. Poor dude.
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posted on
03/22/2004 8:01:51 AM PST
by
buffyt
(There won't be a domestic agenda to worry about unless we deal with this threat to our existence.RL)
To: buffyt
Ditto Darwin Award Ping
To: reagan_fanatic
~Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you~
I always thought it was the beaver.
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posted on
03/22/2004 8:04:14 AM PST
by
mlbford2
To: presidio9
Who'd have thought one so young ...
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posted on
03/22/2004 8:08:02 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
(Some things you only have to screw up once.)
To: presidio9
work accident
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posted on
03/22/2004 8:08:27 AM PST
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: buffyt
"Boonreung's father said he would give his son's 30 snakes to a zoo because nobody in the family dared deal with them."
If a snake killed my kid the other 30 would meet my machete.
To: presidio9
Now he can spend time penned up with snakes for eternity.
To: presidio9
That bites.
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posted on
03/22/2004 8:32:04 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Boston: So much Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by someone else.)
To: presidio9
Can Steve Irwin's demise by a Crieky Croc be far behind...
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posted on
03/22/2004 8:40:01 AM PST
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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