CNN IBN: For this man, reptiles are staple diet

April 4, 2007

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New Delhi: For 28 year-old Uttam Das a resident of Jorhat in Upper

Asom blades, arachnids, tubelights, bricks, snails, cobras, cockroach,

lizards, compact discs and rats form an integral part of his daily diet.

Das swallowed four live arachnids, some lizards and gobbled five

blades, a part of a tubelight, a brick and two frogs during a show

near Nehru Park in Jorhat on Tuesday evening.

People who gathered to witness the feat shrieked and squealed while

some even turned the other way.

He had even a brought a king cobra to eat, but unfortunately it died

on the way.

''I have been eating these materials and reptiles since I was in class

X. Now it is such, that a day is not complete if I don't munch some

arachnids and chomp a few cockroaches,'' Das said after the show.

Popularly known as Raju, Das said he fell unconscious for some hours

after he 'devoured' his first uncanny dish, a live lizard, when he was

16 years of age.

Since then there has been no abnormalities in his health, Dr Kamala

Saikia, who examined him recently, said.

This is not all. Das has more incredible stunts to his name. He can

ride a motorcycle with his eyes closed, jump into a 20 ft pond from a

height of 100 ft and even set himself on fire for a few seconds.

Son of Sarbeshwar Das of Baihata Chariali in Sonitput district, Das,

who tied the nuptial knot about two-and-half-years back, wishes to

compete in Zee TV's Sabaash India show and then page himself in the

Guinness Book of World Records.

Astounding as it may sound, his 14-month-old daughter Monalisha

appears to be on track to surpass her father's stunts. Besides milk,

the child eats leaves of plant and trees only.

''She eats nothing else, just green leaves of plants and trees apart

from her mother's milk,'' the 'proud' father said.

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