How did a pygmy rattlesnake bite a Lowes Shopper?
On Tuesday, while shopping in the outdoor garden department of Lowe’s Home Improvement in Ocala, Florida, Mark Wright, a 43 year old man from nearby Silver Springs, Florida, was bitten on his hand. Silver Springs is a populated city just east of Ocala, but is part of its metropolitan statistics. At the time, he was loading brick patio pavers on a steel blue cart for a project at home. Suddenly, he was bitten on his hand, a spokesperson from Fire and Rescue report said. When the man tried to remove snake from his hand, it launched its poisonous fangs in a second time. Because of it’s size and the large population of them in Florida, it was easy to determine that what had bitten the shopper was a pygmy rattlesnake. A friend of the snake bitten shopper, Ken Reedy said that Wright complained of severe pain after the pygmy rattlesnake had bitten him. “He said it stung, and it hurt real bad,” said Reedy. An ambulance was called to treat the victim of the snake bite. Meanwhile, Reedy reports
