Bloke sets new world record for living with snakes

45-year-old David Jones from Sussex has set a new world record for living in close proximity to deadly snakes.

Jones, a professional carpenter has spent 114 days locked in a 4m x 5m room at the Chameleon Village Reptile Conservation Park in Johannesburg, South Africa surrounded by 40 dangerous serpents, including puff adders, bloomsangs, cobras, black mambas and green mambas.

The previous record of 113 days was set last year by South African Natie Swart, again at Chameleon Village. So far Jones has been fortunate enough to avoid being bitten, but poor old Natie wasn’t so lucky, during his attempt he was bitten three times and has a permanent leg injury.

In comparison Jones, who isn’t a professional snake handler, has had it easy. He sits in the tiny room connected to the internet via his laptop computer and blogs about his time in the snake room. Although he beat the current record at day 114 Jones is staying in his reptile chambers until he hits 121 days.

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