Hold muh black mamba and watch this —
It takes every kind of people, to make the world go round.
I tend to think this man has a strong attraction to masochistic behavior and if it wasn’t via snake venom, he would be ‘researching the effects of sliding single edge razors lightly across the epidermis.
He would tell you that he knows all there is to know about skin density, metallic weight and the variety of cell shapes that cover the human skin.
This is obsessive, manic, thrill seeking behavior that in the right controlled situation, can be of great help to other people. This is the kind of personality who has a very high threshold for pain and an even higher addiction to the resulting adrenaline rush. I heard nothing about him having a girlfriend, or any friends at all.
Interesting.
I’ve had a somewhat related experience: my first summer in Texas about a decade ago, I was stung by wasps, bees, hornets, etc. over 100 times. No idea why.
On the rare occasion I am stung anymore, I don’t even feel it. Well, except if I’m stung by a “tarantula hawk” wasp. Those still sting a bit. Not much, but a bit. (Note: that sting is considered the second most painful after the bullet ant, which is actually a wingless wasp. Never been tagged by one of those.)
From the article: “Between his apartment and a storage closet down the hall, Ludwin owns 17 snakes – 15 of which are poisonous – from all over the world: a Costa Rican coffee palm viper, a Mexican west coast rattlesnake and a green tree python, to name a few.”
I pity this moron’s neighbors.
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I’m well ahead of this guy on the natural selection bit. I won’t go near poisonous snake and put fort considerable effort not to. Masochist is what I thing they call guys like this.
reminds me of the movie SSSSSSSS.
Lived in Miami, not far from the Sepentarium. Visited several times, saw Bill Haast and wife Clarita numerous times in person and on TV.
He looked ill to me, sallow complexion, gnarled hands. He injected himself with venom, I think primarily cobra and had built up a pretty good immunity to it.
He saved many lives with transfusions and venom products he developed.
Had a good tourist show.
Watching him open the cage and his King Cobra bursting out as if looking for a fight was awesome. That King Cobra would be eye level with Haast. !! http://www.miamiserpentarium.com/
