Unfiltered Story #344502

I submited another story not long ago about when I was worknig in a herpetology stand during an event in my university

I had just joined an herpetology research group in my university as intership. As a part of it we deal with the animals the enter the university, wich occur a lot because the university is pretty much surrounded by a park, and as we are an herpetology group we deal with snakes, lizards, frogs and such. Me and a friend that joinned the group with me were bored chatting when suddenly our boss burts through the door saying we had an urgent call, grab the snake capture tools and follow him. As we run with him we reach a tree surrounded by people looking at something up there, a rather big jiboia (Boa constrictor) snake on a very high branch. We then spend some time discussing how we were gonna get to the snake because the staff wasn’t finding a ladder tall enough to reach it, so I ended up trying to climb the tree, just to fail miserably and get both my arms all scratched, and when I finally gave up the staff comes with the ladder. Now we got to another discussion: who is gonna go up there and get the snake? We don’t have any tools to get snakes off trees so someone gotta go up there and grab the snake with their bare hands and bring it down, the snake isn’t venomous so it´s kinda ok if we get bitten
Me: ( to boss) so… who is going?
Boss: i’m too old to deal with shit like this
Me: (to other colleague who has been working here longer but in the mammals research group, note he is quite a big strong bearded man) so are you going?
colleague: no way, I’m already almost shitting my self from here( we learned later that he is terrified of snakes)
Me: (to friend) and you?
Friend: I-I don’t know…
Me: fine… I’ll go, I think I can do it…( actually scared as hell too, take note that me and my friend are females)
I start to climb the ladder feelling like my heart is going to explode and come face to face with the snake, that is now staring at me, I start to nervously talking to it as I try to get in a good position to grab being very carefully to not scare it away or get bitten
Me: hey there… how are you? I’m just gonna go right here… please don’t bite me, I haven’t done anything against you so far… just stay there, don’t mind me… just wanna get a good look at you… gods help me
I shiftly move my hand and grab its neck firmly, the snake starts struggling and pulling back and it’s actually so strong it’s puling me with it, so I had to use my other hand to hold my self to a branch. My friend had to come up to help me by uncoiling the snake from the branch because I had both hands accupide, she did it all while swearing like a sailor and then got down as fast as possible with me right after with the snake wrapped in my arm, it starts to squeeze my arm as I go down chanting “shit shit shit shit” because it’s hurting ( Boas constrictors method of killing is strangling it’s prey, so they are really strong). when I get to the ground we uncoil it from my arm and put it in a box as fast as possibly. When we examined it we learned the snake was a female with more than 2 meters. This was my first time doing a capture and rescue and until now the wildest, my boss love to tell this story to basicaly anyone now, and I known by the staff now as “that snake girl” and they always call me when they find a snake in the campus.