A crazy painter is trying to get into Guiness for living with poisonous snakes. Not only can he live with them, he eats an average of one raw poisonous snake a day. And you thought mom's chocolate chip gluttony was bad.
"Recounting the first time he ate the reptile, Bhaskar said: 'It was the rainy season of 1977. I was just about seven years old, a student of Bal Brahmachari High School in Ranchi,' he said in drawling voice.
'A dhor snake had attacked me. I tried hard to get rid of it, but the snake did not leave me. When I could not find a way to get rid of it, I bit the snake, in a fit of anger and pain. I continued biting it and finally ate it.'
The first experience was 'interesting', says the painter and added that the snake’s blood had tasted strange. hmmm could it have been venom?
'Since that day, I started eating a snake everyday,' adds the man with a proud smile.
Bhaskar’s parents had remained ignorant about their son’s appetite for snakes for at least seven years. 'My father noticed (the snake eating) when I was 14 years old. He tried to stop me. But I had already developed an addiction for snakes,' he said.
He admits he had to face health problems because of his eating habits. Doctors at Sadar Hospital did not entertain me when they came to know that I ate live snakes,' said Bhaskar, who had gone there to get treatment for typhoid."
Monday, August 01, 2005
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