Woman lives with 5,000 scorpions for 33 days

[NewJeffCT]

"she's very brave," says an onlooker... I think very stupid, but who am I to judge?

Jan 24 - A 39-year-old Thai woman has set a new world record after spending 33 days and nights living with 5000 poisonous scorpions.

Kanchana Ketkaew, was attempting to break her 2002 world record, when she lived with 3,400 scorpions for 32 days inside a tiny glass room.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090124/video/vwl-thai-sco...

[Haole Girl]

1. Aaaaack!

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. She should try eight years in the same country as George Bush.

[MrScorpio]

3. Now try that with 5,000 Scorpios

I bet she'll have a lot of fun!

[Generic Brad]

4. What's 1600 more scorpions, when you get down to it?

One is too many, IMO. After you get over 1000 is there much difference?

[azmouse]

5. She's absolutely nuts.

I have to kill about a dozen scorpions a year living here on the desert. It's bad enough never knowing when one of the nasty little buggers will be around, why would anyone deliberately live with that many? Nuts, says I.

[struggle4progress]

6. Why are all the good ones taken?

February 15, 2006 - 3:28PM


Scorpion queen Kanchana Ketkaew, right, kisses Bunthawee Siengwong who puts a centipede in his mouth, during their wedding ceremony.
Photo: AP

... Marking Valentine's Day .. seven couples decked out as corpses, took part in a traditional Thai wedding ceremony ... "We met and fell in love at a snake farm in Samui Island where we were both performing," Kanjana said ...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/creepy-couple-wed/2006...

[InvisibleTouch]

7. Black emperor scorpions.

At least, that's the one perched on her chest in the picture. They're big and they look impressive, but they're virtually harmless (a sting akin to a bee sting, if they can even be bothered to sting you), and not at all aggressive. Spending a month among a few thousand of them isn't really that big of a deal. You just have to know the animal. I've had them as pets, and they're entirely handle-able.