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:
More people die from bee stings than to venomous snakes in North America.
Never messed with one, avoid snakes like liberals. Have read that Coral snakes are very passive, and young kids often pick them up because they are so pretty. Do not get bit, either.
Quoted from my late uncle Frank it’s like “two hot pokers o far ‘s jammed into ma ankle”.
My wife got bitten by one several years ago on the heel. It was an adult snake so the bite was mostly dry. Young ones tend to inject everything they have. It looked like a bad mesquite thorns wounds with minimal swelling.
She spent about 18 hrs in the ICU and the bill was $40K with little actual treatment. Of course there was several doctors that came by and said “ I’ve never seen a snake bite before.
I wish I could get paid that sort of money to take someone’s pulse and gawk at their predicament.
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