That is actually the third time I have read of someone being bitten by a rattlesnake in a Wal-Mart garden center.
The last one was in Ft. Walton Bch. Florida and it was a pygmy rattler which are typically not deadly. I doubt it was a scam as the guy said he only wanted Wal-Mart to pay for his hospital bill.
Someone might be placing them there tho.
I never pick them up.