Saturday, December 02, 2006

Ere gele - Dangerous games

It often baffles me how far people will go endangering their lives in the name of making ends meet.
This man should have learned from Steve Irwin. The most people can do when you die is to organise a befitting burial, dedicate a week (at most) to you and pack your grave full of roses. Shikena! After that, life goes on as if nothing happened.
He can go and become snake king in heaven.

Bite kills Malaysia 'Snake King'

A snake charmer who made a name for himself as Malaysia's Snake King has died after being bitten by a king cobra.
Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, had entered the record books for locking himself in small spaces with hundreds of snakes or scorpions for days at a time.
The old adage "once bitten twice shy" simply did not apply to Mr Ali Khan.
According to local press reports, he had his first altercation with a king cobra 27 years ago.
So when, on Tuesday, one of his subjects inflicted what was just the latest of many bites, he had not been unduly worried.
However, two days later, his condition worsened suddenly and his family rushed him to hospital. He died before he could receive treatment.
Ali Khan Samsudin found fame in the early 1990s when he lived for 12 hours a day for 40 days in a small room with 400 cobras.
That earned him the title of Snake King.
In 1997, he acquired another record - Scorpion King - after shutting himself in a box with 6,000 of the creatures for three weeks.
He was reportedly bitten 99 times in his life.
He leaves two wives, five children and a protege known as the Scorpion Queen, who he trained for her own record-breaking stunt two years ago.


All in the name of entertainment? How far can you go to make ends meet?

1 comment:

The Life of a Stranger called me said...

well in this guys case to the point of death - so he left two wives - may his soul rest in peace. But how can someone make fighting with snakes their profession. Na wa oo -

This one you have three posts in one day are you going for a record??? LOL -

anyways have a blessed weekend.