A couple years ago I was feeding an adult female red tailed boa. I was holding a large rat above her head like I always do and she struck at it. She missed and I dropped the rat. Without thinking I reached in to regrab the rat and she struck my hand perfectly and started to coil. I withdrew my hand carefully and she then coiled her backside around the center top divider of the 75 gallon aquarium. So now im stuck next to the tank with a 9 foot snake crushing my arm and there is blood everywhere.

I scream up to my wife who is terrified of snakes to come help me. She flat out refuses to come downstairs.
After 30 min of my yelling she comes downstairs and hands me my weightlifting gloves. I get a glove on and proceed to remove the snakes toothy grip on my hand. The episode took about 30 min and made a huge mess of blood.
After I cleaned the wound the bite wasn’t that bad. But boy did it hurt.