South Africa's Bite Darwin Award Winners

[scalybunni]

Captioned: Bertie with one of his snakes.

[Westley Price]

Bertie looks a lot like Luke Perry in the days of Melrose Place

Does anyone know who this is? Very brave though taking on a Rinkhals without eye protection and bar hands.

[Whitelipp]

Bertie looks a lot like Luke Perry in the days of Melrose Place

Does anyone know who this is? Very brave though taking on a Rinkhals without eye protection and bar hands.

Bwhahahahaha Westley only Bar hands make people this strong to handle venomous snakes bare hands

[scalybunni]

This Bertie Peers guy is the Bertie in the picture above ( you can read more about him here http://gosouthonline.co.za/fish-hoek-looking-back/ )

"Bertie Peers other great interest was snakes, having been introduced to them by Cyril French, a teacher at Rondebosch Boys High School who lived in Fish Hoek. Travelling to school by train, with some of his pupils, he would often produce a snake from his pocket and Bertie soon became interested enough to start his own small snake enclosure in his garden. Later he opened a Snake Park near the entrance to Cape Town Pier where visitors could see and hear about the snakes. They were all “milked” and so were safe for him to handle. He often bought snakes brought in by those who had caught them and one day, in 1939, he was bitten by a new snake that had been put into the enclosure before being milked. Having treated himself with an injection he went home, only to become very ill later. He died in hospital that night, leaving a wife and a young son. Victor Peers, who was in poor health, died a few months later."

[Westley Price]

Sad that the guy had to die, but very entertaining how he treated himself and how his "milking" suddenly made the snakes non-venomous, haha.

[scalybunni]

Lol... Clearly his milking did NOT make them non-venomous. Anyway, I think this guy needs to be here too....



http://landbou.com/bedrywe/bonnie-die-slang-man-van-stella/