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This is a bit old, but still amazing!
3-year-old child spends hour in cage with 30 poisonous snake
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia After almost an hour locked in a cage with 30 poisonous snakes, 3-year-old Siti Amirah had just one thing on her mind: her milk bottle.
Siti, whose father is a snake handler in northeastern Kelantan state, chatted calmly with the deadly cobras and other snakes Thursday as they curled around her neck and hands, The Star newspaper reported.
"You OK?" she was quoted as playfully asking one of the serpents.
Siti's father, Sayuti Harun, said his daughter was first exposed to snakes when she was a year old. She showed no fear and was comfortable around his 112 pet snakes, among them pythons, cobras and rattlesnakes.
Sayuti, 61, said he planned to pass on to Siti the snake-handling skills that he learned from his father 35 years ago.
After spending nearly an hour in the cage, Siti ambled out and, unfazed by cheers and applause from a watching crowd in Kuala Terengganu town, reached for her milk bottle.
Staff at the resort hotel where the show was held were not able to provide a contact for Sayuti and declined to comment on what safety precautions were taken.
The hotel's public relations department, which organized the event, was closed on Friday for a public holiday.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/...e_Princess.php
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May 23, 2012, 10:34:11 PM
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she is so used to snakes anyway...
