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 werent 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 Lowes gardening department:
That's a painful place to get bitten.
Was he trying to return it for a refund?
Did the guy who caught it get charged 10 cents for the bag?
‘The doctor says you’re going to die.’
$$$$$$$$$$$
Nice try
Was he in the garden department?
How poisonous is a Copperhead? Nothing like a Moccasin or Rattler I thought.
Imagine the snowflake offense that would come out of stepping on its head and cutting its head off with a pocket knife.
We need a wet cleanup in produce, please.
You are right. No one dies from a copperhead bite but I am sure it is no fun either.
It would have taken a looooong lens to film that from the distance I would be away from the nasty thing
Several years ago, a man was bitten by a pigmy rattler in the Fort Walton, Beach Wal-Mart. They actually administer a nasty bite.
The strangest thing is he didn’t want anything out of Wal-Mart except to pay his medical bills.
I have never heard it called an “Arkansas Walmart” before.
“...How poisonous is a Copperhead? Nothing like a Moccasin or Rattler I thought....”
Just as bad as a rattler except you don’t get the rattle. It’s a neurotoxin venom.
Moccasins have endotoxin venom. I prefer NOT to be bitten by any of em, thank you.
Usually lots of swelling and pain in the extremity/bite area. A friend’s son got bite last year and stayed overnight in the hospital, side effects lasted a few weeks. A 2 year old got bite last year and was sick but recovered. And, a lady’s grandson got bite on the toe a couple of years ago when he went outside to talk on his cell phone to a friend privately. Needless to say, no more sandals for him in the yard!
My mom could smell them when they were close....really!! Poisonous snakes have what she called a musty chemical smell.
The guy that was our guide in the Panama jungle for some testing some years back said he could smell them. My arsehole boss claimed he was just trying to be dramatic to justify his pay, but it sounds like it could be true.
Copperheads smell like a fresh-cut cicumber.
“Did the guy who caught it get charged 10 cents for the bag?”
One would think the author would have viewed the video ...
Bad enough. Grew up with all three around our home and farms. Had several encounter with mocs and coppers. I was always told the babies are just as poisonous. We always had a hoe handy. Off with their heads! And, yes, they can still bite after that. Daddy had a gun handy for the rattlers.
Yeah, there’s a 10c deposit for them in arkansas
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