# Man bitten by rattler while shopping at Wal-Mart **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897 "2003-10-01T11:56:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/1 "2003-10-01T11:56:09Z")
[Link](http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0903/30rattler.html;COXnetJSessionID=15G6qWzro79wjGJiwe0EgBh89fkLdzJkuWwtqh6crUS6TinOhilz!395635570?urac=n&urvf=10649452747180.942842633891802). > [@](#): > > Douglas Hatchett of Brownwood was examining shoes on a rack when a rattlesnake concealed behind a shoebox bit him yesterday. The snake fell to the floor, where Hatchett stomped it to death. Damn! I’ll bet that’s gonna make a few people uneasy… ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/2 "2003-10-01T12:39:51Z")
Hmm. And here I was all set with the snopes link debunking it… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/3 "2003-10-01T15:58:12Z")
Does this mean Wal-Mart is now a safe environment for [badgers](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers.php)? ::_D&R_:: ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/4 "2003-10-01T16:07:16Z")
Man, I hate when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/5 "2003-10-01T16:12:52Z")
Moral: One should not shop for shoes at Wal\*Mart. ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/6 "2003-10-01T18:17:36Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*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. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/7 "2003-10-01T18:23:20Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*Moral: One should not shop for shoes at Wal_Mart. \*\* Actually, I think the moral is that one should not hide behind the shoeboxes at Wal-Mart ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/8 "2003-10-01T18:25:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SkyBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@SkyBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkyBum)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/9 "2003-10-01T18:38:38Z")
**Beadalin** , you might be right. [Here is a follow up story](http://www.arkansasnbc.com/global/story.asp?s=1465048&ClientType=Printable). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/10 "2003-10-02T03:53:55Z")
I’ve heard of snake skin pumps, but this is ridiculous! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/11 "2003-10-02T05:46:59Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/12 "2003-10-02T10:05:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*Does this mean Wal-Mart is now a safe environment for [badgers](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers.php)? > > ::_D&R_:: \*\* (Mexican Bandito accent) **Badgers! We don’t need any steenking badgers!** ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/13 "2003-10-02T10:26:06Z")
Attention shoppers, there is a sale on snake oil and antidote in Aisle 7… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/14 "2003-10-02T12:44:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*I’ve heard of snake skin pumps, but this is ridiculous! > > 😛 \*\* I’ve seen those - Warner Brothers cartoons, right? Well, beats snakeskin pimps. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Marko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@El\_Marko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Marko)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/15 "2003-10-02T14:53:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-bitten-by-rattler-while-shopping-at-wal-mart/204897/16 "2003-10-02T15:03:44Z")
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)?