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Lowe's Customer Bitten by Rattlesnake
« on: Apr 15^th, 2004, 10:25am »

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Lowe's Customer Bitten by Rattlesnake
Wed Apr 14, 7:50 PM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. - The large trees section at a Lowe's store looks a lot like a forest, but customers don't expect to see dangerous fauna living in the flora. A customer rummaging through the trees at a Lowe's store here was bitten on the hand by an 18-inch eastern diamondback rattlesnake, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.

"The gentleman thought he had hit his hand on a thorn but they discovered it was a snakebite," said Chris Ahearn, a spokeswoman for the Mooresville, N.C.-based hardware chain.

A relative shopping with the man Sunday killed the snake, and they brought it with them when the customer was taken to a hospital to ensure proper treatment for the poison, Ahearn said.

A hospital official would not provide information without the man's name. Ahearn would not identify the customer.

The eastern diamondback rattlesnake is not one of the five rattlesnake species native to Oklahoma, said David Walker, naturalist supervisor at the Oklahoma City Zoo. Its natural range is in the Southeast.

The rattler can grow as long as 7 feet and often gives warning bites that deliver no venom.

The snake probably made its way to Broken Arrow with the trees, which were shipped in from Tennessee. Ahearn said she knows of no other similar instances at Lowe's.

Store employees immediately scoured the trees for other animals after the snakebite and found none, Ahearn said.

"We feel like this is an isolated incident, but we are taking it very seriously," she said. "We continue to watch our garden centers for uninvited guests."

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Re: Lowe's Customer Bitten by Rattlesnake
« Reply #1 on: Apr 15^th, 2004, 1:26pm »

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I love snakes... sad that most people and snakes cant really get along due to accidents, or uneducated minds about snakes...

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Re: Lowe's Customer Bitten by Rattlesnake
« Reply #2 on: Apr 15^th, 2004, 1:56pm »

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The trees came from Tennessee..... So that's what those people were doing in my back yard...

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« Reply #3 on: Apr 15^th, 2004, 2:29pm »

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Lots of rattler there then? How big are trees over there in Tennessee anyway?

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« Reply #4 on: Apr 15^th, 2004, 4:20pm »

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I am in East Tennessee which is nestled quite well into the Smokies: Alot of Maples, Oaks, Pines, etc. that get really big when uninihibited. Unfortunately, there are wildfires, pinebeetles, and moderate logging...... The rattle snake was to ward off the dumb campers, the bine beetles, and the loggers......... Grin

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« Reply #5 on: Apr 15^th, 2004, 6:47pm »

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Bine beetles? Mind educating me with that?

Anyways, nice trees you got there...

Here in the Philippines, most big trees are found in the southern area of the country (Mindanao)... I really dont know the species (I'm even more familiar with trees that arent from here!), and I guess cuz mainly, Im a fauna person!

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« Reply #6 on: Apr 16^th, 2004, 8:17am »

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Pine beetles was a beetle that acted more as a parasite that basically killed the pine tree.... Was a major concern about two summers ago, it wiped out alot of state parks and entire sides of mountains were wiped out by the pine beetle

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« Reply #8 on: Apr 16^th, 2004, 12:31pm »

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Whoa! Some sort of a bigger, evil version of a termite... hey send me some, Ill put them at the house of my ex... it does eat other woods right? or simply pines? They are attracted to the smell pines I guess... I have to find a pine scented freshner.

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« Reply #9 on: Apr 16^th, 2004, 1:18pm »

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It goes after pine, doesn't eat the wood.... Just sucks the life out of it....

We went from snakes to beetles.... That's cool too

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« Reply #10 on: Apr 16^th, 2004, 2:57pm »

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Hmmm... interesting animal. Its like aliens in sci-fi stories that suck the life of planets...

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