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Snake bites Lowe's customer on the head

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

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Poor babies must have been terrified...

Clarion-Ledger

CORINTH, Mississippi -- A customer at a Lowe's in Corinth, Miss. was bitten on the head by a snake Saturday, Police Chief Ralph Dance said.

WTVA reported the customer was opening a cabinet inside the store when he or she was bitten by a chicken snake.

Corinth police were not available Monday to comment further on the situation to the Clarion-Ledger and did not have immediate access to an incident report.

Amanda Manna, spokeswoman for Lowe's, acknowledged the incident but said she couldn't comment.

"All I can share is that we're currently investigating the incident," she said.

The customer was transported to Magnolia Regional Health Center. The victim's condition is not known.

Chicken snakes, also known as black rat snakes, corn snakes or pilot snakes, are nonvenomous. They are usually three to five feet long and can climb up smooth wood surfaces, such as barn walls. They primarily eat rodents and birds.

http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/weir...wes-customer-on-the-head-martellaro/22019281/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...overing-nine-inch-corn-snake-carrier-bag.html
http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ro-Sp/Snakes.html
 
What I find kind of "funny" is that the snake most commonly called a "Chicken Snake" in that area is actually a grey rat snake, not a black rat, corn, or pilot snake. I've also never seen a snake jump!

Either way, I wish the poor thing had fallen out on me. I'd have taken him home.
 
I suppose being safe is better than sorry and some people are (generally unreasonably) scared enough of snakes that it might give you a reason to go to the hospital to have one fall on you, but still I do find it a bit ridiculous that it required a hospital trip for what they identified as a non venomous snake! Seriously! People get exotic spiders in their produce fairly often but don't generally head to the hospital or the newspapers about it. Granted, most people aren't bitten by them either ...
 
Ta vie, my uncle was a produce manager for years and years. He has all sorts of stories about animals they find in produce shipments. Apparently tarantulas are common found in banana shipments.
 
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