Define “isolated.”
A Florida man survived being bitten by a poisonous pygmy rattlesnake while browsing the garden department at Wal-Mart, rescuers say.
The man was injected with an antidote at Memorial Hospital Miramar after being taken from the Pembroke Pines shopping center, The Miami Herald reported Monday.
Officials said the man was bitten on his right hand by the foot-long snake….’‘This is clearly an isolated situation. Customer safety is always a priority,” Wal-Mart spokeswoman Daphne Moore told the Herald.
[Emphasis added.]
John Page ended up in the emergency room at Wuestoff Hospital after he was attacked by a pygmy rattlesnake last November. He talked publicly for the first time, Friday, about what happened.
“I pulled my hand out of the shopping cart and, to my surprise, there is a 14-to-18 inch snake hanging off of my finger,” he said.
– “Victim Making Demands Of Wal-Mart After Snake Bite,” WFTV9.com, February 22, 2007.
All she wanted was a flower, but instead a woman said she got a snake bite.
Delaine Jarrell was looking through the plants in the garden center at a Jacksonville Wal-Mart on Wednesday, when a snake sunk its fangs into her arm and didn’t let go without a fight.
– “Snake Bites Woman Walking Through Wal-Mart Garden Center,” WFTV9.com, June 5, 2006.
A man was treated with anti-venin [sic] after he was bit by a pygmy rattlesnake in the garden department of a Central Florida Wal-Mart, according to Local 6 News.
Officials said a man was reaching into a plant Monday at a Wal-Mart in Sanford, Fla., located on U.S. Highway 192 when the snake bit his hand.
– “Pygmy Rattlesnake Bites Man At Wal-Mart,” Local6.com (Orlando), July 25, 2006.
And lest you think this only happens in Florida:
A 44 year old man was bitten by a snake Monday afternoon while shopping at the Wal Mart in Marana.
The Northwest Fire Department says the man was in the garden department at about 3:30 p.m. reaching for a bag of lava rock.
That’s when a 3.5 foot long Western Diamondback Rattlesnake bit him in the forearm.
– “Snake bite at Wal-Mart,” KVOA.com (Tuscon, AZ), March 29, 2007.
Clearly, Daphne Moore has never heard of Google.