Man Bitten by Snake in Wal-Mart Here's an interesting story from Florida.
A 51 year-old, wheelchair-bound man, was shopping at a Florida Wal-Mart, when he was attacked by a Pygmy Rattlesnake! As the man reached into a plant in the garden center the snake bit him on the hand and latched on! He managed to shake the snake off and beat him with his cane.
The man has not been identified publicly but he was given antivenin and taken to the hospital where he is recovering. The Wal-Mart is in Sanford, Florida, which is about 25-miles outside of Orlando. Part of the store was closed and the snake was captured and killed.
Wal-Mart says the snake bite is "an isolated incident," and they say their stores are taking precautions to make sure it doesn't happen again.
I've seen some pretty strange things in Wal-Mart before...but never a Rattlesnake!
4 comments:
meanwhile, the Florida man's brother was swallowed whole by a Burmese python at a Target just ten miles away.
Let the lawsuits begin!
This being America, the man will sue. And a jury will find Wal-Mart responsible, even though it's something that could have happened anywhere that there are snacks and big doors that constantly open to allow in people.
Which means going forward, stores around the country will now have to install complex, i.e. exepensive, pest and animal control and prevention devices, which will then show up in our receipts in the form of higher prices.
Now, if a display had fallen on him, that would be different. Then I'd say that yes, assuming that the man did not cause through malicious and excessive actions of his own, the store really is at fault.
But hey, I'm not a lwayer.
If that happened in Canada the snake probably would have asked permission before biting the man coz we're very polite.
Snakes in a Store!
Yeah, there's a lawsuit coming, I bet.
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