Man sets record for bathing with snakes

DUBLIN, Texas, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A man has set a world record in Dublin, Texas, by spending 45 minutes in a bathtub filled with 87 rattlesnakes.

Jackie Bibby, dubbed "The Texas Snake Man," shattered the record he previously set of 12 snakes, and a Guinness World Records official certified the feat as a world record, KWTX-TV, Waco, reported Tuesday.

Bibby said the snakes spent their time slithering under his arms, between his legs and anywhere else they could fit themselves, but none of them decided he was worth biting.

The snake fan said he also plans to break his previous Guinness-certified record of holding 10 rattlesnakes by their tails in his mouth at one time by adding an 11th Tuesday.

"I do it for the attention," Bibby said of his motivations for performing the dangerous stunts. "I like being on television."