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I am sorry, but how intelligent is a man that gets bit 163 times and doesn't change the way he handles snakes?
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You can't look at the fact he's been bitten 163 times by itself. Sure that's the only side the media bothers to mention, but this man has performed well over one million milkings in his career. That puts 163 bites in a different light. Sure some of the bites probably could have been avoided, but anyone who grabs venomous snakes that many times is going to have a good number of bites over the course of a career that long.
You have to touch a snake to milk it, an in relation to the sheer number of times he's done it, that's not a bad track record actually.
After doing it for 50 years I'm sure he's become somewhat complacent in his methods. It's hard for someone like us to imagine grabbing a cobra to be a routine everyday thing, but for him it is.
I sure do not question his intelligence, perhaps a degree of his personal responsibility, but not his intelligence.