Man claims rattlesnake bite at Wash. Wal-Mart

(CBS/AP) LEWISTON, Idaho - A man says he reached down to pick up a stick lying in the gardening aisle of a Wal-Mart in eastern Washington state, only to discover that it was a rattlesnake that then bit his hand.

Mica Craig says he was shopping in the outdoor garden department of a Clarkston store when he was bitten a snake on Saturday. The 47-year-old man says it latched onto his hand and that he screamed, shook loose the snake and stomped it to death. He told the The Lewiston Tribune that he believed the snake was a rattlesnake.

A bystander drove Craig to an emergency room in nearby Lewiston, according to The Lewiston Tribune. Craig says he was treated with six bags of anti-venom and was told that his hand could be permanently disfigured.

He says doctors expect him to remain hospitalized until Tuesday.