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:
Yeah, but then you would not have had some nit-picker like me come along with the exceptions!
The world is over-run with smart-alecks! ;-)
They are sneaky snakes since they just slither in and eat
& drink out of the dog’s bowls. - One got up on our porch
last year. Dub barked & barked. I looked out without a
flashlight. It was coiled up and looked like a bunny rabbit.
Fang went out and shot him or something. Rattlers will sing,
but other snakes won’t.
Snakes generally smell like wet cornbread to me.
What I’ve always heard is that generally the pit vipers are
“hemotocs” and Myo-toxic as well. They basically inject digestive enzymes to get you started—their own style of barbecue sauce. It’s the coral snakes, related to cobras that are generally considered “neuro-tocs.” These are the names a surveyor I new used.
Rattlers, as I’ve always thought are more toxic and their venom includes a large neuro-toxic component. But according to this ER doc on the Animal Planet, rattlers like the Mojave are showing up lately with more toxic venom with a higher neuro-toxic component. I guess they, like us, prefer their dinner well seasoned and warm but quiet and still.
But it’s curious that among those western rattlers—which are no larger than moccasins or copperheads— are probably more dangerous than either of the diamondbacks. Also the constituents of the venom is changing to be more like coral snake venom. And, if rattlers can change, why shouldn’t copperheads?
If I had to get bitten by something, I might prefer a coral snake bite to any pit viper. You can lose appendages when those things get you.
I once kissed a girl on the veranda.
A bunch of parselsnouts! And now I feel dirty using a Rowling reference.
Heheheheheh
I believe it could be true. The human sense of smell is an interesting thing, the most primitive one we have, and the closest to the brain center of all the senses.
I have often told people that I can smell snow coming. I cannot describe the smell at all...but when I smell it, it instantly becomes a feeling too.
Kind of when I smell jet exhaust. Just brings me right back.
Anyway, I don’t doubt for a minute that woman could smell snakes.
When I was a kid and lived in the Philippines, I did a lot of snorkeling. I collected shells. I was told there was a shell (Geography Cone” that could sting you (actually shoots a little poisoned dart into you) that can kill you in 5-15 minutes.
I never saw or captured one, but my friend did. He said his older brothers told him you had to grab the shell from the front or you could get stung. So he did, and didn’t have problem.
I quite agree...the component of the pit viper toxin that causes tissue destruction is horrifying to me. I guess with the neurotoxins, you get paralyzed and suffocate, but don’t know how much pain is associated with that other than the, well, standard “discomfort” of suffocating...
I can smell rain. Actually I think just about everyone can. Probably not the rain itself but whatever it first mixes with when it first starts.
I have read that coral snakes are the most venomous of all North American snakes but they do not have fangs which makes delivery a little slower.
I have heard as well that the Coral Snake is worst.
My grandfather said the same thing.
You can smell the scent of wet earth blown in from a distance. In a thunderstorm there is a fresh sharp smell of ozone.
I have not been golfing in years, but when I did golf I remember a time at a course near—I think— Randolf Wisconsin. We were walking along a fence line—The adjacent property was farmland—and there was a small thunderstorm in the distance. The wind blew past with the strong sent of wet tilled earth.
Hemotoxin
Allergic reaction to the venom.
I hope he gets some serious jail time for this fraud attempt
Very poisonous
Knew someone who died from allergic reaction to antivenin from a copperhead bite
I’ve known people who say they can smell copperheads. I can’t myself, but I do believe them
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All pit vipers have disgusting breath!
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