Man Swallows Life Rattle Snake, Vomits It Alive Unharmed

This afternoon, yours truly was leaving a bank on Adeniran Ogunsanya street in Surulere with a friend and blogger when I met another friend in front of Shoprite. As we exchanged pleasantries, I noticed people running and wondered what the cause was. A few seconds later, an Hausa man emerged with a rattle snake, hanging loosely around his neck.
My friend(the blogger) although wary moved closer to him and tried to take pictures. Unfortunately his battery went flat and he came for my phone. The man at this point realized he had become a spectacle as curious passerby gathered and watched him control one the worlds deadliest snakes.

By the time my friend(the blogger) collected my phone to take pictures, the man insisted on a tip to give an even better display of his initial 'snake show'. People including my friend obliged with a few naira notes and the man started once again to play around with the snake. As more people watched the man, he tuned things up a notch and to the shock and dismay of many, put the snake's head in his mouth! Crazy stuff right? I thought so too.  The man did a whole lot of weird stuff and even appeared to be controlling the snake's movement at some point. See some of what was captured below;

Quickly a little education on rattlesnakes…
Rattlesnakes are venomous snakes of the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus. They’ve got 32 species and are predators that live in a wide array of habitats. They kill their prey with a venomous bite, and possess a set of fangs with which they can inject large quantities of hemotoxic venom.

Yet for little change, this man risks his life with this deadly animal. Sigh.