Doctors Don`t Belive Snake Bite Story
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
In Texas, police say doctors don`t
believe that a man was bitten by a rattlesnake in a Wal-Mart, as he
claimed, and doctors say he stole more than 15-thousand dollars in medical services from the hospital.
Thirty-one-year-old Douglas Hatchett, a self-employed carpenter
and painter who lives in Bangs, Texas, went to Wal-Mart in nearby Brownwood on Monday. He said he reached for a pair of shoes in a box on a shelf when a Western diamondback rattler bit him in the hand.
He said he then stomped it to death and told an employee, who got a snake-bite kit and called for an ambulance.
But Brownwood Regional Medical Center doctors told police Hatchett had NOT been bitten by a rattler. Hospital officials filed a police report.
