Also from South Africa: Man shares room with 40 loose venomous snakes

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No, to answer your question: The snakes did not come with the room. David Jones supplied them himself. The British man is trying to break the world record by sharing a room for four months with 40 of the world’s most venomous snakes. Samuel L. Jackson does not approve.

From MSNBC News World Blog:

“It’s a challenge,” he told me. “People die all the time when they climb Mount Everest. But that doesn’t put them off. This, if you like, is my Mount Everest. I’ve always wanted to come and sit here with snakes.”

We’d come across Jones while traveling back from Rustenburg to Johannesburg, after watching Ghana defeat the U.S. in the World Cup. You couldn’t miss the signs by the roadside: “World Record Attempt in Progress!”

Jones’s sparsely-furnished room was at the back of a snake farm, part of the Chameleon Cultural Village.

Here’s Jones’ web site. Among the snakes are puff adders, snouted cobras, boomslangs and green and black mambas.
Why Jones fails to put these freeloaders to work predicting World Cup results is beyond me.
If and when Jones is bitten, is it wrong for me to wish for announcer Andres Cantor to scream “Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
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One man, one room, 40 venomous snakes [MSNBC World Blog]
Snakeman [Official Site]