Bill Haast was one of the strangest people you’d ever want to meet. He had his Miami Serpentarium and he routinely had himself bitten or injected with venom to build some kind of a resistance against it. But when he looked at you, he looked right straight through you. His eyes just were piercing hollow-eyed, and looked right straight through yours. Really a strange guy. I’ve seen him down there, catch cobras and milk them. And Claurita, his wife, she was a character too. He had a situation happen down there where the family had a little kid and they had him up on a guardrail, and he fell into the pit and a crocodile got him and killed him.
