A customer at a Lowe’s hardware store in Mississippi opened a cabinet and was bitten in the head by a chicken snake Saturday.

Police said the incident happened around 2:30 p.m. and the bitten customer was taken to a local hospital for treatment. (Source: WTVA.com)

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Chicken snake is a general name for nonpoisonous snakees, including several species of rat snakes and corn snakes. (Source: WikiPedia)

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