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August 23, 2004

She a Scorpio?

Ah, reminds me of my house in El Rosario....

Woman Moves in with Scorpions

Kuala Lumpur (Reuters) - Scorpions will be the bedfellows of a 24-year-old Malaysian woman for more than a month, as she tries to set a new world record for living with the venomous animals.

Nur Malena Hassan moved into a glass box with 6,000 scorpions at a shopping mall in Kuantan, about 160 miles east of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Malaysia's New Sunday Times reported.

Nur Malena showed no sign of fear as she entered the box, the paper reported, and scorpions soon began crawling over her body as she was monitored by medical staff and officials from Guinness World Records.

The current record is held by Kanchana Ketkaew of neighboring Thailand, who was stung nine times while she lived in a glass room with more than 3,000 scorpions for 32 days in 2002, Guinness says in its book of records.

Ketkaew, who took the record from a previous Malaysian holder, said at the time she had built up immunity to scorpion bites over six years performing with the bugs for tourists.

Nur Malena, who may leave the glass box for only 15 minutes a day, was to have started her record attempt several days ago but struggled to find enough scorpions.

Posted by elcanche at August 23, 2004 11:10 PM
Comments

Maybe she will qualify for setting the record for the craziest idea for setting a record.

Carol

Posted by: Carol at August 24, 2004 07:40 AM

I'm with you. It makes my sanity no longer an issue. I am feeling very normal right now. 6,ooo scorpions??????? I wish her luck, or sanity,or a quick recovery. Whichever she needs the most. V.

Posted by: Vicki at August 24, 2004 12:30 PM

Kinda brings back the good ol' days of El Rosario, ¿que no?

Posted by: Rogelio at August 25, 2004 02:31 PM
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