Walmart Mechanic Wrote Satanic Symbols On Car During Oil Change, Customer Claims (PHOTO)

A Walmart customer says she found an unpleasant surprise after taking her car to the retail giant for an oil change.

A Fort Worth, Texas woman, known only as Jessica, claims that a Walmart mechanic with “an attitude” scrawled satanic symbols, including the “Mark of the Beast,” on the bottom of her car during an oil change, CBS Dallas-Fort Worth reports (h/t The Consumerist). Jessica says she only became aware of the symbols when a mechanic at a different Walmart later pointed them out, saying the blue sealant used to write them is common to Walmart car-servicing stations.

“Who does that?” Jessica told CBS Dallas-Fort Worth. “I mean, what if it’s a curse?”

Jessica's car crisis is the latest in a slew of bizarre incidents at Walmart stores. First of all, a rattlesnake reportedly bit a man while he was shopping in the garden section of a Washington state Walmart this week. Then in February, a razor blade was found in a brand new baby sleeper purchased from a Walmart in West Virginia, resulting in minor injuries. In addition, multiple customers were pricked by hypodermic needles found in clothing at a Walmart in Georgia last December.

Then there are the controversies that, like in the case of the satanic car incident, have to do more with human interaction. Donnell Battie is suing Walmart for a million dollars, after a 16-year-old allegedly said "all black people must leave the store" over the PA, according to the International Business Times.

It doesn't stop there. At the corporate level, Walmart is also in hot water over a variety of claims. The big box retailer's Mexico division is being investigated for allegedly using bribery to boost the number of stores in the country. The U.S. Labor Department also fined Walmart earlier this month for allegedly denying workers overtime pay.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this post mistakenly implied it was a Walmart employee that had said "all black people must leave the store" over the PA. It also wrongly stated that the man who was bitten by a rattlesnake was shopping at a Walmart in Idaho. He was at a Walmart in Washington state.

Check out some other astonishing Walmart stories below:

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• Satanic Symbols Written On Car

  A <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/walmart-mechanic-satanic-symbols_n_1522516.html?ref=business" target="_hplink">Walmart lube tech in Texas allegedly wrote satanic symbols</a> on a customer's car during an oil change.

• Walmart Shoppers Go Black Friday Crazy

  This video of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/02/black-friday-shoppers-run_n_376695.html" target="_hplink">frenzied Walmart shoppers on Black Friday</a> was taken in 2009.

• Jesus Walmart Receipt

  A stain <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/18/jesus-in-walmart-receipt_n_901548.html" target="_hplink">resembling the face of Jesus</a> appeared on this Walmart receipt days after a South Carolina couple left it on the floor.

• 70 Year-Old Woman Punched

  A <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/jacquetta-simmons-arrested-punched-walmart-employee_n_1169984.html" target="_hplink">70-year-old greeter was punched by a customer at a Walmart</a> in New York when she asked to see receipts.

• Woman Pepper Sprays Crowd

  A woman injured 20 when she <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/25/walmart-pepper-spray-black-friday_n_1112548.html" target="_hplink">pepper sprayed a crowd of Black Friday shoppers at a California Walmart</a> last year.

• Meth Cooking In Bathroom

  A woman was arrested on charges of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/09/meth-walmart_n_1139183.html?ref=walmart" target="_hplink">trying to cook meth in a bathroom of a Tulsa Walmart</a> last December.

• Fake Shopping List Prank

  Last year, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/shopping-list-pranksters-video_n_1132155.html" target="_hplink">pranksters made a fake shopping list</a> just to mess with Walmart employees.

• Syringes Found In Clothes

  Hypodermic <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/walmart-needles-_n_1124199.html" target="_hplink">needles were found hidden in clothes at a Walmart in Georgia</a> and pricked at least two women last December.

• Naked Obese Man Steals Socks

  A naked <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/naked-man-steals-socks_n_1284139.html?ref=walmart" target="_hplink">300-pound naked man was caught on camera</a> stealing socks in February.

• Razor Blades In Baby Sleeper

  Razor blades found in a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/razor-blade-in-baby-clothes-west-virginia-girl_n_1296742.html?ref=walmart" target="_hplink">baby sleeper newly purchased at a Walmart</a> in West Virginia injured an infant girl in February.

Comments

[Daniel Kauwe]

12:28 AM on 11/25/2012

the fixation on "Satan" is just pure ignorance dominated by popular culture that is more sensationalistic than anything.

beyond very limited mention of "Satan" in the Bible, most of the modern conception of Satan was created in literature over past few centuries. Satan as most people conceive him (some sort of ultimate embodiment of evil) is largely a product of different author's imaginations...

Satan as referenced in the Bible is literally the "adversary" or "accuser" and serves the divine will of God. there isn't much explicit description of Satan, certainly nothing that warrants the popular perception of some monster ruling over hell and totally obsessed with capturing...people's souls...i really don't see how people derived that from the literal scriptures...

anyway, if you're really going to delve into scripture, there's a pretty solid case to be made that "Satan" is ever a tool to the greater will/purpose of God and therefore ideas of him running around unchecked, terrorizing the populace are very unfounded.

also, most of the negative and literal descriptions of Satan are along the lines that he is a "deceiver" and, shudder, "the ruler of this world."

anyway, i just find the whole phenomenon to be really interesting...

[Alexodia]

02:01 AM on 11/25/2012

That means Grover Norquist is satan, so is Sarah Palin, Harry Reid, wow about any politician fits that deceiver and ruler of this world. Even if that ruler is through an intertwined and powerful beaurocracy.

[Daniel Kauwe]

02:09 AM on 11/25/2012

yeah. pretty much. those are logical, if somewhat extreme conclusions :P

[Ystorm]

10:50 AM on 05/22/2012

OMG! a curse you say? Maybe if you believe it is a curse, it is a curse. People are so easily led.

[TheBlackBot]

08:05 AM on 05/22/2012

This is rather funny. Unfortunately, this poor woman will probably blame anything bad that happens to her on her car now.

[Fran Jaime]

11:40 PM on 05/20/2012

"What if it's a curse?" Oh, come on, Lady!Really! No, seriously! Who believes in curses?

[thegriffinite]

08:00 PM on 05/20/2012

With minimum wage comes minimum effort. Anyone who has worked for Walmart or talked to any of its employees knows that they have had the life sucked right out of them.an are now zombies under the control of the necromancer walton. They do this with pointless team meetings with unreasonable goals that you can never achieve an are thus subject to D days an other satanic rites such as chanting over an over ''welcome to walmart welcome to walmart''. This combined with the trashiest customers searching for lower an lower prices through any means possible, including snitching on you to your dark lord supervisor in an attempt to get some compensation drives the un-zombified to insanity, thus completing the trifecta of evil . China mart is the unholiest place on earth an this is just more proof.

[Matthew Faulkerson]

10:21 AM on 05/19/2012

This is why you never take your car to China Mart

[jhightiger]

11:46 PM on 05/18/2012

This is why I am not too far away from my car when I take it to a mechanic shop. Most shops have a sign that says "Because of insurance purpose's, no Customers beyond this point." I pay them (Signs) no attention. I'm close just enough so that I am not breaking their policy rule, and close enough where I can watch what they are doing. If it takes two hours to work on my car, I'm standing and watching them for the entire two hours. I have excellent legs, so standing doesn't bother me at all. Whatever bay they put my car in, I'm not far from it. Some places don't mind because I've even walked in the bay and asked them "How's it going with my car?" I've had no problems doing it this way.

[Bob Metcalfe]

08:27 PM on 05/25/2012

America must be a funny place. I just trust my mechanic. With reason, he's a good bloke :-).

[jhightiger]

12:47 PM on 05/27/2012

Just be thankful.

[RK Johnston]

09:22 PM on 05/18/2012

Mix the following vitriolic ingredients:

01) Poorly Screened And Trained Employees.
02) Customers Who Perceive That "The Customer Is Always Right" Is Part Of The Ten Commandments.
03) Heavy-Duty Stress Levels.
04) Overworked Supervisors.
05) A Corporate Culture That Preaches "Savings At Any Cost"--and means it.

And this half-baked incident is the result.

RETAIL PEACE--NOW!
--RKJ

[Ystorm]

10:51 AM on 05/22/2012

this country's populace insists on "savings at any cost" as well.

[Ender Wiggin]

06:59 PM on 05/18/2012

lmao. bet he never expected his little bit of venting to become national news.

[RadioWires]

06:52 PM on 05/18/2012

"I mean, what if it's a curse?"
Is her car the Scooby Doo van? Because otherwise, that's just ridiculous.

[Ystorm]

10:53 AM on 05/22/2012

Since I study the effects of this kind of thing (as something to do when I am not working), a curse can work if you believe it is a curse. Normal people that don't play with that kind of thing are not affected but if you come from a culture that instills fear from anything that is even sort of like an occult thing, you can actually make yourself sick over it, but it is you doing the damage, not some 'curse.'

[Denis OBrien]

02:22 PM on 05/23/2012

Actually I believe that she drives the Oscar Meyer "Weinermobile"....

[Slim Pickinz]

05:24 PM on 05/18/2012

Everyone wants a handout over something. All we hear is.... SUE...SUE....SUE. maybe her neighbor did it? Then again, I am sure some attorney will get her for thousands of dollars, then again, maybe she will get the judge that awarded for holding a cup of hot coffee between your legs and getting burned.

[Silver Owl]

05:16 PM on 05/18/2012

This girl isn't too bright.....

[jld1973]

05:16 PM on 05/18/2012

Wal Mart stinks. It is the only store where I can buy something and at the check out, the person who is ringing it up will stand there, pick up my item, look at it and either ask me if it's good (duh, or I would not buy it) or tell me they want to try it. That is usually followed up by them telling me when their break is, how long their shift is, how tired they are, etc. Also, at our neighborhood Wal mart, 70 percent have not seen a hair brush in months. And don't even think about asking an employee for help. They have no idea where anything is or how it works. And most of them don't even see why that would be an irritation. We will go 30 min. out of our way to go to a different town and hit super target before we will go to the wal mart that is literally half a mile from our home.

[EdZackly]

06:40 PM on 05/18/2012

Do you think it is due to all the inbreeding in your town?

[jld1973]

06:53 PM on 05/18/2012

From what I have gathered, many towns across the country are afflicted with the curse of Wal-Mart. I might question whether or not there is inbreeding going on at the corporate level of Wal Mart, though.

[Mithros]

04:57 PM on 05/18/2012

Or..... It's a regular star, a right-side up cross, and 999 for Herman Cain.

[Indigo1941]

04:36 PM on 05/18/2012

I don't believe it. Not that I'm defending Wal-Mart, far from it! But that's ridiculous.