Snake charmer Khum Chaibuddee plants a kiss on a king cobra at Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in Pattaya, Thailand, on Satursday October 7.2006. The Thai snake charmer kissed 19 highly poisonous king cobras in an attempt to set a world record Saturday. One by one, the cobras were released onto a stage set up in this Thai beach resort town, as the 45-year-old snake charmer kissed each beast and then moved onto the next. [AP]

Part-time snake charmer Khum Chaibuddee, 45, kisses a King Cobra at the Ripley's museum in Pattaya, 150 km (93 miles) east of Bangkok, October 7, 2006. Khum made a new world record by consecutively kissing 19 King Cobras which broke the previous record set by Gordon Cates of the U.S. who kissed 11 venomous snakes in 1999.[Reuters]