DENVER, N.C.—A poisonous snake in a tree has bitten a customer at a home improvement store in North Carolina.
A spokeswoman for Lowe’s Companies Inc. said in an email Tuesday that a customer was bitten in the outdoor lawn and garden center Monday at a store northwest of Charlotte.
Copperhead inside Lowe’s Home Improvement! This was in Denver, NC. 4.5 foot long snake bit employee. #yowza #wral pic.twitter.com/D6CvrMYSti
— Renee Chou (WRAL) (@chouchoutv) May 17, 2016
The East Lincoln Fire Department had said in a Facebook post that the copperhead bit an employee.
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The customer’s name and condition were not available.
Lowe’s spokeswoman Karen Cobb said employees called 911 and searched for other snakes. Cobb said no others were found but a pest control company has been called to check. She says the company doesn’t know how the snake got into the garden center.
