Everyone knows to ask before taking any of my animals out. I know each and every one of my snakes and sometimes I don't want a certain one bothered. I am the only one that knows which ones have eaten or are about to shed. And as the op mentioned, they were in QT and that just makes my head hurt. I really hope that they will respect your wishes to leave them alone in the future, I would say get a lock for their enclosure if they already had been asked to not handle it.