“Toni Barnard of Semmes said she opened a bag of potatoes from Wal-Mart on Schillinger Road on Saturday night. When her back was turned, a snake apparently slithered out of the bag. Her 11-month old son Trevor grabbed it and did what he does with everything these days: he put it in his mouth and took a bite.

Barnard said she got the snake out of her baby's fist, and someone else cut off the snake's head. She said she was told that the snake was a baby copperhead, but be cause it didn't bite her son, he wasn't injured.

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“I smell a lawsuit a brewin'.”

“Way to go Trevor!”

“gross!”

“Im with Dub,that sounds like a lawsuit scam to me!! Potato chip bags are sealed ,usually anyway ,not enuff air for a snake to live for more than a day or two.”

“It was a bag of potatoes, not potato chips.”

“It was a bag of potatoes, not a bag of potato chips. Usually those bags are either mesh or perforated plastic, so something could live in one for a little while.”

“That's been on the local news a good bit.

It was a bag of potatoes, not potato chips.

It was originally reported that it was a copperhead. It was actually a rat snake.

Violin - how in the world did you find an article on al.com? You're well read, but I'm fairly sure you don't typically peruse the Alabama newspapers.”

“They were potatos not chips.”

“BTW, they were potatoes, not chips, did we mention that. Too funny, all the techies jumped on that one!”

“so, were they chips or what, guys?”

“Wow. I didn't mean to pile on.
Sorry dude.”

“That place is near where I live.
It was a bag of whole potatoes, not chips.
Semmes is kind of a low income area outside Mobile, AL. Yep, lawsuit a coming!”

“lyra, I don't think they were chips. Maybe they were potato wedges or something?”

“PILE ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“LOL!
Preach it y'all preach it!”

“How many chimps were there?”

“oh good lord! :-)”

“Doritos”

“Bugles”

“Funyuns”

“eww, i think i'd rather eat a snake than Bugles.”

“did the snake just come from a visit in Sweden?”

“Spuds.”

“Chimps?
Right now there are four of us.”

“Taters.”

“So, the little tater was hangin' 'round a bag of spuds and got a taste for snake.

Good catch, kid!”

“Taters”

“or Funyuns, for that matter!”

“A potato eating chimp got bit by a snake?”

“Tubers.”

“What kind of taters?”

“*DORKS*”

“We techies take our snack food very seriously.”

“wow - this got a tad frenzied.”

“Get your own bag.”

“...of potatoes.”

“.....and we all think alike.....”

“Try new Snakes-No one can eat just one"”

“The snack that bites back.”

“Brings a whole new meaning to that old "snake-in-a-nut-can" joke, doesn't it?”

“no comment”

“Never put the words "snake" and "nuts" in the same sentence. Now all we need is a post by Captain Underpants, and the circle will be complete”

“The kids mother is now scarred for life.

She's going to need say, uh million, to make the pain go away.

The kid probably wants to do it again.”

“Oh heck, they'll sue for a million, get $50,000, blow it on a new Trans Am and lottery tickets, and the kid will still have a taste for serpent...”

“Hmmmmmmm, aren't snakes evil in the south?

The kid could get work as a witch doctor.”

“OKAY !! OKAY SHEESH!!! LOL MY MISTOOK !! WONT HAPPEN AGAIN!! YEAH RIGHT!

OK ,so tell why she was opening the bag of taters in the first place???”

“ymmy raw taters..i eat them all the time”