| Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com A man who said he was reaching down to pick up a stick lying in the gardening aisle of a Walmart store was shocked to discover that it was actually a rattlesnake, which promptly bit him. Mica Craig says he was shopping in the outdoor garden department of the Lewiston, Idaho, store when he was bitten on Saturday. The 47-year-old said the reptile dug its fangs into his hand and that he screamed, shook the snake loose and stomped it to death. a bystander took Mr Craig to St Joseph's hospital, where he was released after a doctor said there were no signs that the snake had released any venom. But by the time Mr Craig returned to his home in Clarkston, Washington, he told the paper that his hand had grown to the size of a cantaloupe. Mr Craig said that he returned to the hospital, where he was treated with six bags of anti-venom. In addition, he was told that his hand may be permanently disfigured. |
