Kern [CA] man eats live snake for 'Survivor':Tehachapi man's stunt disgusts crowd at tryouts [video]

Bakersfield Californian ^ | Jul 14 2007 11:05 PM | LISA SCHENCKER

[ElkGroveDan]

Wow. Check out the video at the link:

http://www.bakersfield.com/hourly_news/story/188978.html

[ElkGroveDan]

beat you to it ping

[TChris]

LOL!

They certainly don't want to have anything to do with a real survivor, as he said. They want someone entertaining to play games.

[U S Army EOD]

I don’t see the problem with that. Each morning, I eat a live frog for breakfast. Nothing worse happens to me the rest of the day.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

[GoldCountryRedneck]

"You do something like that to survive ..."

Excuse me? The series is "Survivor", right? I'm confused.

I'd personally hire the guy....

[rightwingextremist1776]

None of those people have ever been to SERE school (survival, evade, resistance, escape) in the military. Real survival is much tougher then just eating a live snake......Of course, none of them would have the nads to even sign up let alone go to SERE school.

[adorno]

A 48-year-old Tehachapi man skinned and ate a live snake as part of his audition at an open casting call in Bakersfield for "Survivor" Saturday.

The producers of the show are no doubt looking for the audacious, but they're also looking for people that likely wouldn't have an easy time in the wilds. Thus, that guy is probably not what they're looking for and he failed the audition.

[Beckwith]

Probably gay — they’ll eat anything.

[AU72]

Drag a CBS Survivor tryout brochure through a trailer park and you never know what it finds.

[ElkGroveDan]

Ah! So you’ve BEEN to Bakersfield.

[OB1kNOb]

Too many freaks, not enough circuses.

[Red Badger]

He didn’t do anything an eagle or a hawk would not do to the snake.........

[theDentist]

Josie Papik of Pacific Palisades: "You do something like that to survive but not to an animal that can't defend itself."

Hey Josie, a rattler CAN defend itself... and the results can be fatal. And if you haven't eaten for a while, you're hungry and weak, it's easier to eat the animal who puts up less fight than one that is more powerful and can defend itself more ferociously.

[RJS1950]

Actually the winner last year was a retired Navy F14 pilot who had been through SERE a number of times. He’s now doing commentary for parts of the History Channel Dogfights series.

[Bender2]

You say his name... was Rusty Shackelford, eh?

Never... hear of him.

[KarlInOhio]

The producers said: “Snake? Hah! That’s nothing compared to what were having people eat in Survivor China being filmed right now.”

[NormsRevenge]

Wow .. I could handle it cooked... but , Hey, if ya wanna impress people and it is a Survival theme show.. The ‘Man in the Wild’ dudes eat some pretty rank stuff too.

[LasVegasMac]

Actually the winner last year was a retired Navy F14 pilot who had been through SERE a number of times. He’s now doing commentary for parts of the History Channel Dogfights series.

The light bulb just went on.

Watching that series this weekend and wondering why that guy looked familiar!

Thanks.