Link.
Damn! I’ll bet that’s gonna make a few people uneasy…
Hmm. And here I was all set with the snopes link debunking it…
Does this mean Wal-Mart is now a safe environment for badgers?
::D&R::
Man, I hate when that happens.
Moral: One should not shop for shoes at Wal*Mart.
Hell, I didn’t have a little 'ol rattler to teach me that lesson…I learned it the hard way.
Actually, I think the moral is that one should not hide behind the shoeboxes at Wal-Mart
For what it’s worth, police who came to the scene said that the snake looked more than recently-dead, so there is a chance that this guy brought in a dead snake and is hoping to sue based on the incident.
Beadalin, you might be right. Here is a follow up story.
I’ve heard of snake skin pumps, but this is ridiculous!
Hey, Walmart–
Do you have boots?
Do you have snakeskin boots?
Do you have . . . really fresh snakeskin boots? YOu do?
Oh. . . Yiiiii, not that fresh!
Oh . . . it’s do-it-yourself?
(Mexican Bandito accent)
Badgers! We don’t need any steenking badgers!
Attention shoppers, there is a sale on snake oil and antidote in Aisle 7…
I’ve seen those - Warner Brothers cartoons, right? Well, beats snakeskin pimps.
I find it hard to believe the guy killed it by “stomping on it twice”. I’ve heard that western diamondbacks are resilient enough to survive being run over by tractor-trailors on the highway. Then again maybe I’m just repeating a vicious rumor I heard once, I don’t know.
I don’t understand…if it wasn’t fresh, so was he bitten before? Did he make puncture wounds himself and injected a little bit of venom?
Did they just give him antivenom without taking a blood sample to see the level of toxicicity(spl)?