[Update] Snake Dies of Silicone Poisoning After Biting Model's Fake Breast
Mar 14, 2011 – 4:10 PM
Steven Hoffer Contributor
It was another trip to the Garden of Eden cut short for one legless reptile.
Israeli model Orit Fox was attempting to lick a snake during a publicity stunt for radio DJ Shmulik Tayar when the lucky serpent, presumably aroused, lunged forward and bit Fox's fake breast, sending witnesses into a frenzy.
Fox, who is rumored to have the largest bosom in all of Israel, was hurried to a hospital outside Jerusalem where she received a tetanus shot and was later discharged.
As for the snake, puckering up with a supermodel proved to be the kiss of death. The creature succumbed to silicone poisoning shortly after the incident.
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Update: It appears that AOL Weird News was snake-bitten along with other major news organizations. Reports now indicate that the snake that bit model Orit Fox's breast did not die of silicon poisoning.
A video of the bite was posted on the gossip blog Oh No They Didn't on March 3, followed by the quip: "The snake later died from silicone poisoning."
That statement -- presumably posted in jest -- was then reported as a fact in publications around the world. But animal experts now say it's impossible that the snake died of silicon poisoning, mainly because snakes don't suck blood when they bite.
"Snakes can eat some really sick animals and not contract mammalian diseases. So I have not heard of a snake getting sick or dying after biting a human," Mark Kilby, owner of the Luray Zoo and Luray Reptile Center, told Life's Little Mysteries.
"I can't see the boa constrictor that bit that model getting any of the contents of the material from the implant, being silicone or saline, in its mouth to cause any ill effect to the boa."
It's unclear what -- if anything -- killed the snake, though sources told Discover Magazine that the snake might have perished when it was yanked off of Fox's chest.
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