Posted on 04/01/2017 2:44:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A copperhead snake bit a man Friday inside an Arkansas Walmart store, according to KTHV.
However, surveillance video later showed the man himself bringing the venomous snake into the store, a Walmart spokesperson told the station.
No one else was injured, but the snake sighting caused pandemonium, according to customer Linda Moore Mathews, who snapped a photo of the reptile as it lay coiled in the middle of a produce aisle and posted it on Facebook. “Everyone was freaking out,” Mathews said. Another woman recorded video of a man finally catching the copperhead and placing it in a Walmart bag.
The snake was de-fanged, which is usually done to snakes kept as pets, according to Jacksonville Animal Control, but the venomous glands weren’t removed.
The man was taken to an area medical center for treatment according to KTHV; his condition is not yet known.
In spring of 2016, a copperhead bit a customer in a North Carolina Lowe’s gardening department:
YouGoTexasGirl wrote: “My mom could smell them when they were close....really!! Poisonous snakes have what she called a musty chemical smell.”
My wife can smell them and one of my former inlaws could too. I never could.
A late friend of mine was the head Ranger for the Cuyahoga Valley Reservation. I told him the were Copperheads in Ohio. He said, “No way!” I took him to an old well pit and lifted the lid. There were 5 big ones down there. He was very surprised!
De-fanged. So, some @#$^&@_#( decided it’d be fun to send someone to the ER. Hope the cops are reviewing the security cameras.
Unfortunately, I've never smelled a fresh-cut cicumber.
Yikes!
LOL!
I had a friend bitten by one in the seventies . He spent 5 days in the hospital .
One thing I know for sure is that the venom eats away at the area that receives the bite. I got bit by a baby copper head and within an hour there was a big hole in my little finger where the venom had eaten away the skin. The real pain was the bill. $60,600.00. The 600.00 was for the room they kept me in to observe my condition. 60,000 was for two shots of anti-venom.
“Imagine the snowflake offense that would come out of stepping on its head and cutting its head off with a pocket knife.”
One chilly morning in Tennessee I was stepping out for a bit of Squirrel hunting and stepped on something, looked down and it was a Copperhead. He was trapped between the heel of my boot and the sole. I jumped about three feet in the air turned and shot his head off with my 20 gauge. It was a real Ninja moment. Thank God he was sluggish from the cold. I made a hat band out of him.
During the 60s an Army Ranger at Eglin was bitten by a coral snake. They literally flew antivenom from New Orleans in an F-104.
He lived.
Out of more than 7000 snake bites a year, less than 10 die.
List of fatal snake bites in the United States
| Timothy Levins, 52, male | July 8, 2014 | Copperhead | While camping at Sam A. Baker State Park in Missouri, Levins walked outside, saw a snake, and brought it to his son's attention. When he picked it up, the snake bit him. Levins walked back into the cabin, washed his hand at the kitchen sink and sat down on the couch. When he became sick, someone from a neighboring cabin came over to help and performed CPR. Levins was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.[17] |
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At least four Copperhead fatalities listed.
Yeah I should not have said no one. Still many people are bitten by copperheads and they have a very high survival rate. I am sure I have read that they are the least fatal percentage wise.
My wife can smell them and one of my former inlaws could too. I never could.
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I could smell my inlaws.
Definitely toxic. They tend to be a good bit smaller than cottonmouths or rattlers, at least around here, hence less venom but nothing to take lightly.
They smell like cucumbers.
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