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Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« on: May 15, 2012, 04:16:03 AM »
http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article...Idaho_Wal-Mart
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[/size]At first I thought the article would refer to customer service. At least the snake was probably made in the USA! I hate shopping at WM and this would really be a shopping bummer.
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2012, 04:26:23 AM »
Wow, you really can get just about anything at Walmart!
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2012, 08:21:35 AM »
A blue bite special?  ::)
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2012, 08:32:05 AM »
Watch out for the ambulance chaser law suits.  I'm sure this will get their attention.
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2012, 08:40:12 AM »
To me, the grown man can not tell the difference between a stick and a snake, he deserves to get bitten.  By the time I was five both my Grandfathers had taught me what a snake was, and to be constantly on the lookout for them.  Anywhere any time, and where you least expect it.  Copperheads, Rattlers, and Cottonmouths, were the common ones there in Tennessee.

Maybe the wife is right, I'm a mean old guy to feel that way.  But now he will want to sue Wally World for his own lack of common sense.
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2012, 03:58:02 AM »
Quote from: Sourdough on May 15, 2012, 08:40:12 AM
To me, the grown man can not tell the difference between a stick and a snake, he deserves to get bitten.  By the time I was five both my Grandfathers had taught me what a snake was, and to be constantly on the lookout for them.  Anywhere any time, and where you least expect it.  Copperheads, Rattlers, and Cottonmouths, were the common ones there in Tennessee.

Maybe the wife is right, I'm a mean old guy to feel that way.  But now he will want to sue Wally World for his own lack of common sense.

Oh come on! You expect a city boy to know what a rattle snake looks like? 
I've lived in rattle snake country all my life and I've only seen one. :o
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2012, 07:13:02 AM »
I just can not understand how a person can mistake a snake for a stick.  Maybe it's because I'm colorblind and their coloration blending does not work for me.  I look in the green grass, and there is a green snake there, I see the snake.  It's shape stands out to me, and I see it for what it is.

My Mom's Dad killed two to three Copperheads a week between the house and the barn.  I often saw them in the grass, or slithering around the barn, before he did.  My Grandpa Hunter had Rattlers, and Cotton Mouths on his place.  I only saw one Copperhead there, it had struck at me as I was being dragged through waist high grass by a mule.  That snake got caught on the hem of my overalls.  The dogs took care of it. 

When I lived in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona I saw Sidewinders and Diamondbacks almost daily.  Of course I lived and worked out in the Dessert.  First time I took my wife for a horse back ride into the Sacaramento Mtns, (She had grown up there in Alamogordo) we saw more snakes than she had ever seen in her life.  Just on one trip.  I taught her how to spot them.

When I lived in Turkey I frequently saw Asp, near my dorm and at the Skeet Range on base.  I picked an Asp up one day to show to some Auscares, (Turkish Solders) they panicked and ran away, screaming I was a crazy XXX.  One day I put on my snake proof boots and went for a tour of Snake Castle, about five miles East of Incerlik.  That is an old Bizentine Castle, that lies in ruin.  locals said I was the first person to walk around the Castle in decades due to the presence of snakes.  Saw lots of different kinds of snakes.  But the Cobra got my attention.  When it stood up, the head was higher than my waist.  I backed out and looked in other rooms.

We only have Snow Snakes here in Alaska.  The Snow Snake bits all new comers, and even gets some of us old guys every once in a while.  It's been three years since I got bit by the Snow Snake.  But it got the wife twice this last winter.


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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2012, 07:30:46 AM »
How bright can he be ? He shops at Wally world. ;D
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2012, 07:32:28 AM »
I have always been told most humans know that the sound of a pump shotgun and a rattle snake mean something bad is about to happen even if they have never heard one before. Must have been a quiet rattler .
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2012, 01:41:39 PM »
Hey, the snake had a right to be there. He was aplying for a job as a Wal Mart Greeter. :)
 To those that can't tell the differance, sticks don't wiggle, hiss, nor rattle but go ahead and pick it up if you need a closer look. The gene pool won't miss you. ;)
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2012, 09:30:36 AM »
Rattlers don't always rattle before striking.  I've caught many a sidewinder, cut off it's head, and it never made a sound.  Diamond Backs, not so much.  Seems once you get your hands on a Diamond Back they go to rattling.  Seen a guy step on a Diamond Back while Dove hunting in New Mexico, snake bit him and slithered off without making a sound.
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Re: Man bitten by rattlesnake at an Idaho wally world
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2012, 10:37:00 AM »
There is a rest stop here in central New York on I-86 that they close every spring because the rattlers come down off hte mountain and sun themselves on the pavement
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