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Take Care in Walmart; South Florida Walmart Shopper Bitten by Rattler

A Wal-Mart shopper looking for a deal in the garden department found more than he bargained for when he startled a poisonous pygmy rattlesnake hiding in some plants.

The foot-long rattler jumped out and bit him, striking his right hand in between his thumb and index finger.

The man was rushed from the Pembroke Pines store at 151 SW 184th Ave. to Memorial Hospital Miramar where he received an intravenous antidote from the antivenin unit with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

''[The bite] wouldn't have been been fatal with an adult male. But you could lose a finger,'' said Capt. Ernie Jillson, an officer with the antivenin unit. The painful bite of a pygmy rattler can be fatal for an elderly person or a young child, he said.

http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/595772.html

That ranks up there with when the little boy who was in North Bogota was bite by a Deadly Viper in a McDonalds a few years back(in McDonalds play area) and died on the spot!

By miamimike on Jul 7, 2008, 01:57 in Off Topic.

travelingirl says on Jul 7, 2008, 16:59:

Wow, that's crazy!

Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon...

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Robert Jorge says on Jul 9, 2008, 22:43:

We had a pygmy rattler in the Levi's Outlet at the Tanger Outlet mall in Fort Myers a few years ago. Also had one in the Springmaid Wamsutta Outlet here in Destin about 9 years ago. The little guys get around.

--"I believe in making the world safe for our children. But not for our children's children, because I don't think that children should be having sex." - Jack Handy

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dwmte7 says on Jul 10, 2008, 06:31:

that'll teach those shoppers to keep their hands to themselves.

dwmte

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