They were growing and growing and burning

discovery channel animals they were growing and growing and burning.
And for days, I was like, oh god, I
could feel this pressure.
I touched it and goo shot out five foot
across onto the carpet.
And I was just like, oh my god.
Oh fuck.
I'm fucked here.
And I got this massive needle for
injecting horses or something.
I put on some ACDC and it just gave me the strength just to--
against all your will, just push this down and you could
feel it going down into something.
Do I have the nucleus yet?
I'm pulling on this.
No, I don't think I've got the nucleus.
I think I've gone through it.
Pull it back out, hit the nucleus, and it was just like
pwaaachh, just pulling back on the most disgusting stuff that
you'd ever want to see.
And I was like, oh, I'm just going to squeeze it.
And I squeezed this, but it actually made a sound.
It was like peuh.
I looked down in there and there was a
fucking hole in my leg.
I could see inside my leg where all the tissue had sort
of rotted away.
And I noticed flies coming to it immediately.
And it stunk.
It was like death.
It was rotting.
I never want that happening again.

You hear it? discovery channel animals
This is not the hemotoxic snake.
This is something that's got the neurotoxin, the Naja
kaouthia, which is the monocled cobra.
Simple.

And let go.

Since I've kind of discovered the possibilities with the
neurotoxins in this cobra venom, I've been using it in
sporting activities recently and kind of testing it.
It's Kind of added a little bit of extra speed into my
normal abilities.

I've been doing tests on my skateboard from my house into
the West End.
I see how fast I can get in there.
I just use the roads, and I think the cobra
venom helps with that.
It's just sort of like, I go in between cars, I go in
between buses, I go in the middle of the road.
I just cane it.
I feel like I've got so much energy and speed.
When I'm skating, I've learned to actually start
moving like a snake.
And I found myself just kind of using that S-shape--
carving and carving, and it actually starts giving you a
little bit of power.

-William Haast, director of the Serpetarium, has had much
experience in handling cobras.
But he still treats them with the greatest respect.
Gather 'round, folks, but not too close.
STEVE LUDWIN: Bill Haast really is my Beatles and
Rolling Stones and Beach Boys all wrapped in one.
He died last year.
He was just like two weeks shy of 101.
He'd say that he hasn't been sick a day in his life, and it
made me start thinking, OK, wow, there's something here.
He was really my parameter of sort of
going, is this dangerous?
It's working for this guy.
He was treating people with polio, people with MS.
He had
like 4,000 patients.