Rattler Bites Shopper At WalMart

He thought it was a stick, but when it latched onto his hand, Mica Craig knew it was a rattlesnake. Craig was in the Walmart parking lot about 11 a.m. Saturday when he reached down to grab what he said he thought was a stick and toss it out of the outdoor aisles of garden supplies. “I picked up that stick, it bit me and I started screaming,” Craig said. The 47-year-old Clarkston man was reported to be in good condition by St. Joseph Regional Medical Center staff as of Sunday. Craig said he has a medical marijuana license to treat rheumatoid arthritis and was at the store looking for mulch. The 1-foot to 11/2-foot-long snake clung to Craig’s right hand when he tried to throw it, he said, but he managed to shake it loose on the ground at his feet. “I did a tap dance on it and got it killed,” he said/ Cody Bloomsburg , Lewiston Tribune. More here . (Barry Kough Lewiston Tribune photo: Mica Craig, of Clarkston, right, rests Sunday at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston with Maria Geffre, of Asotin, after he was bitten by a rattlesnake Saturday)

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