I will tell you a story. I went to graduate school in Beaumont, Texas. I took Herpetology with some real snake lovers. There were about 7 of us who were in the same graduate program and we were full of ourselves and we took a lot of field trips. Once we went to Sour Lake and were on a research property owned by Texas A & M. We were snake hunting. Now, Gary and Debbie were married (now divorced), but they were fanatics about snakes. Had many herpetariums with mostly nonvenomous snakes. We came across a cottonmouth watermoccacin. Gary had a pinning cane and he knew well how to handle snakes. So he grasped him behind the head and now he controlled him. Right? Wrong. The snake is venomous, but all snakes can constrict. So this rather large 4 foot long, 2" diameter moccasin began wrapping around his forearm. As he constricts Garys forearm, Gary cannot "unwrap" the snake, so he asks me and Joe and Bill to unwrap the snake. We did not unwrap the snake at first. Now Debbie, the wife, is crying...we are 5 miles out in the field, if this large snake bites the fellow he will do so repeatedly and could be very dangerous. Finally we made it to the research center and used ice to uncoil the snake. We dropped him in the freezer and he quickly "hibernated". They later put him in a jar of formalin for a collection specimen.
These people collected live aligators, desert tortoises, all sorts of lizards, anoles, and skinks, and had at least 15 snakes in herpetariums in the house they lived in with their youngest child. They were very nice people.
But Gary would do some really dumb things,...but so did I.