Mica Craig, 47, was shopping in the outdoor garden department of an Idaho Wal-Mart when he was bitten by a rattlesnake (not pictured)

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 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 says doctors expect him to remain hospitalized until Tuesday.

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