Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the Sept.11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of the world's deadliest snakes bite ...

"I know what it feels like to die from snakebite," Friede told AFP via video call from his home in the small US town of Two Rivers, Wisconsin ... from a harmless garter snake when he was five ...

“I know what it feels like to die from snakebite,” Friede told AFP via video call from his home in the small US town of Two Rivers, Wisconsin ... Friede’s first bite was from a harmless garter snake ...