The couple moved back to New Jersey, where Haast studied aviation mechanics, and was certified after four years. Thank you for reminding me about this incredible man. Donated several snakes over the years also, mostly coral snakes from Opa Locka area. Join the New Times community and help support CBS News Miami: Free 24/7 News; CBS Miami App; . In the 1970s, along with his friend, respected Miami physician Ben Sheppard, Haast distributed PROven, a venom-based serum. She finally agreed to let him keep a snake or two in cages. He received the key to the city.Those same hands that for decades eased venom from the world's most poisonous snakes held the key to the city of Miami on Thursday. I was a nurse in the ICU at Variety Children's Hospital on at least three of Haast's admissions after snake bites. Well I then came to his web site to find out how old Mr. Haast is today or if he is still alive. I knocked and went in. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested following the fatal shooting of another teenager at an apartment complex in northwest Miami-Dade, authorities confirmed Tuesday. The attackers included cobras, a krait, green mambas, a pygmy rattlesnake, a European asp and a palm viper. not on the animals, or even the people walking around. ''At 95, he doesn't like to do anything that takes time away from his lab work,'' added his wife. 6/15/11 - RIP Mr. Haast! Bill HAAST and the MIAMI SERPENTARIUM Photo Now, he believes, the long-term benefits of the shots have spared him from many of the maladies of old age. According to Wikipedia, Haast first developed an interest in snakes as an 11-year- old Boy Scout while at a Boy Scout summer camp. I am transferring my old pictures to new albums and came across our photos at The Serpentarium in 1973 when we were there with our family while on vacatin. The Official Website of W.E. "Bill" Haast His hands are gnarled and deadened, some fingers hang immobile, some look stunted in growth, and a pinky and index finger have been amputated at the knuckle, photographs taken by his wife reveal. His first king cobra bite was in 1962. The Miami Serpentarium, an early Florida roadside tourist attraction, was once located on this site. I still have his autograph and some great snapshots of that meet & greet. The bootlegger was arrested, and Mr. Haast found his way to an airline mechanics school. The Serpentarium's landmark 35-foot-high, hooded, concrete-and-stucco cobra stuck out its forked tongue at motorists and arriving patrons on South Dixie Highway and Southwest 126th Street. After the United States entered World War II, Haast served as a flight engineer on Pan Am airliners flying under contract to the United States Army Air Corps.
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