Just as strange as how snakes developed fangs, one night in the 1970’s, some kid broke into the Reptile House at National Zoo in Washington D.C. He managed to steal a full sized Gabon Viper - which is a very impressive snake. He put it into a paper grocery bag, and while riding home on a city bus, the snake bit him. He survived, but only because they rushed in anti-venom in from somewhere else.
If they had a Gabon Viper in the zoo, then the antivenin was near at hand..................
Yes a paper grocery bag should do…. Yes.