I agree with wilomn, something is up.

At one of the shows I went to, I had the pleasure of handling a young, about 4 foot, RTB. It was understandably stressed out and coiled around my arm at about the elbow hard enough that I started losing feeling in my arm. I'm the type of person that I'll find random bruises without knowing where they came from.

I didn't earn a single bruise from the snake.