FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 42-year-old man bitten by a snake in a Pembroke Pines Wal-Mart garden center is suing the company for negligence.
Jay Richitelli says he is the third Floridian in three years to be attacked in a Wal-Mart by a pygmy rattler. Two others were bitten in 2006 at the retailer's stores in Central Florida.
Richitelli's attorney says the Bentonville, Arkansas company should have taken steps to prevent the attacks after they happened before.
Wal-Mart wouldn't comment on the litigation filed in Broward County Circuit Court, but said customer safety is its top priority.
Richitelli says he still has respiratory problems and scars from the 2008 bite. But he's been back to Wal-Mart several times, saying their prices are too good to shop elsewhere.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493248,00.html
Florida Man Sues Wal-Mart Over In-Store Snake Attack
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Re: Florida Man Sues Wal-Mart Over In-Store Snake Attack
Is he sure it wasn't a Greeter having a bad day?
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Re: Florida Man Sues Wal-Mart Over In-Store Snake Attack
Bob Juch wrote: Richitelli says he still has respiratory problems and scars from the 2008 bite. But he's been back to Wal-Mart several times, saying their prices are too good to shop elsewhere.
Jeez, talk about being a demanding customer: you either get great low prices, or, you get poisonous snakes in the store. That's why it's so expensive to shop at Neiman-Marcus-- they probably spend tons of money keeping poisonous snakes out of their stores, and they pass the costs on to the customers...
And maybe lb's problem isn't that he drinks too much Pepsi-- it's probably all those poisonous snake bites that have done him in.
Innocent, naive and whimsical. And somewhat footloose and fancy-free.
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Re: Florida Man Sues Wal-Mart Over In-Store Snake Attack
wintergreen48 wrote:And maybe lb's problem isn't that he drinks too much Pepsi-- it's probably all those poisonous snake bites that have done him in.
I survived the Summer of '98 bigass skeeter infestation without getting some deadly tropical disease, so I imagine a snake hiding in a box of Fabuloso isn't gonna faze me much....
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Re: Florida Man Sues Wal-Mart Over In-Store Snake Attack
littlebeast13 wrote:wintergreen48 wrote:And maybe lb's problem isn't that he drinks too much Pepsi-- it's probably all those poisonous snake bites that have done him in.
I survived the Summer of '98 bigass skeeter infestation without getting some deadly tropical disease, so I imagine a snake hiding in a box of Fabuloso isn't gonna faze me much....
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How about evil squirrel attacks?
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