' No' to snake record
NZPA Johannesburg The efforts of Leigh Van den Berg, aged 19, to reach the "Guinness Book of Records” have slithered away, so to speak. The schoolgirl’s 65 days inside a cage with 35 poisonous snakes will be ignored, reports the South African Press Association. It quotes Mr Norris McWhirter, editor of the "Guinness Book of Records,” as saying, “We do not want to encourage any more of this type of record.”
Miss Van den Berg, of Durban, had aimed to break the book’s "snake pit duration” record of a fellow South African, Peter Snyman, who spent 50 days inside a cage of poisonous snakes last April and May. Miss Van d?n Berg said it was “a disappointment to know they won’t recognise my attempt. But at this moment I’m so glad' to be out of that cage that I’m not really worried about the Guinness’ record.”
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