Man bitten by snake at Walmart...

[atadaskew]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-rattlesnake-walmart-20120515,0,955494.story

The snake bite happened, apparently.
But was it really an accident, or a staged shake down to come?....

Kinda weird the first Dr missed the bite.  Hmm.

“It bit me, and I started screaming,” said Clark, who managed to shake the creature loose.  “I did a tap dance on it and got it killed,” he said.

A fellow customer quickly drove Clark to a nearby urgent care center, where he was referred to a hospital. The hospital, however, initially sent him home after an emergency room physician concluded the snake had not injected any venom

[ConPilot1]

Planted rattlesnake???

Definitely sounds like a Wal-Mart lawsuit in the making.

[Carbonero]

Rattle snake venom, while easily treated, is nothing to mess around with. Fleshy necrosis sucks.  

[Mr. Whippy]

He was getting mulch for his marijuana plants.  

[Carbonero]

He was getting mulch for his marijuana plants.  

Well, he had a tricked-out, loose-chain R6 to get them home.  

[CLAY]

I've been bit by a rattle snake while Prairie dog hunting.  Not much fun!  

[FiremanBob]

I would not be surprised if it is not a plant for a lawsuit. Snakes like to hide in log piles, stone walls, and such, and a warm pile of mulch bags on a pallet would be attractive to one. Not much Walmart could have done to stop it. But if I were the victim, I'd sure as heck sue that first doctor who sent me home with no care.

[mxvet57]

WOW Walmart has everything.

[black hills]

reason # 37 not to shop at walmart...

[UFO]

He was getting mulch for his marijuana plants.  

This guys was interviewed on the radio here in Seattle.  The first thing he had to tell everyone was "I have a license to grow medical MJ, etc..." which has nothing to do with story.  He could have just said "I was there picking up some fertilizer, when..."

The interviewer just laughed because it was clear this gomer has some agenda.

[atadaskew]

The woman in the photo with him has the look of someone who scored herself a new husband..

[DogBoy]

Well I'm off to return this 64 oz. bottle of Walmart Snake Repellant.

[kwb377]

Came out of my local, suburban Lowe's last week to find an approx. 4' snake (unk. type) slithering across the parking lot near my car...I was not amused.

[Kootenanny]

I have nothing to add...except that, when I looked at the linked LA Times page, I found these two  articles linked at the bottom of the page to be MUCH more interesting:

A Catholic high school team refuses to play with a team which has a girl on it.  Really?  Afraid of girl germs?  http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-girl-baseball-team-20120514,0,7914881.story

Police suspect a serial killer might be impersonating an officer, pulling people over to shoot them...they suggest calling 911 to confirm that yes, the cop following with his lights on really IS a cop (not really viable for motorcyclists...and I wonder what the cop's gonna say anyway, after following someone with lights on for ten minutes while they make a call on their phone, while driving--is that legal in Mississippi?): http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-mississippi-fake-officer-shootings-20120515,0,7680032.story

[kyzrex]

There's gonna have to be a new box put into "Walmart Bingo".

[falconati]

WOW Walmart has everything.

 

[cbsnbiker]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-rattlesnake-walmart-20120515,0,955494.story

The snake bite happened, apparently.
But was it really an accident, or a staged shake down to come?....

Kinda weird the first Dr missed the bite.  Hmm.

Well...

Snake Bites in Wal-Mart Stores Not Isolated Incidents

http://news.yahoo.com/snake-bites-wal-mart-stores-not-isolated-incidents-180800847.html

Snake bites in stores are rare, but for some reason there are several cases of Wal-Mart customers being bitten by the slithery reptiles.

[kyzrex]

Who would have suspected that so many lawyers hung out at Walmarts?

[Bounce]

he incident Saturday at the Clarkston store’s outdoor garden section, which lies across the street from a vacant lot where snakes have been known to loiter.

loitering around the lot all day, whistling at la chicas as they pass, eh esse?

[1moreroad]

Kinda weird the first Dr missed the bite.  Hmm.

I would guess that the Dr didn't miss the bite, he just didn't think the snake actually injected venom.  Rattlesnakes envenomate about 75% of the time.  Signs of envenomation should show up in about 10 minutes.  In the absence of any swelling maybe the doctor thought it was just a bite?

A fellow customer quickly drove Clark to a nearby urgent care center

WTF?  A guy gets bit.  He is bleeding.  And a random stranger offers to drive him to urgent care?  Yeah, I let lots of unknown bleeding people ride in my car.  And I know our urgent care maintains plenty of antivenin right next to the necrotizing fasciitis treatment kit they use all the time.  That sentence right there pegs my suspicion index.