That snake's a teddy bear

as most of that species are

I'm in NC, but that attitude is every where

usually from being taught to kill them from an early age and from misinformation about them.
I would like to see a universal change in that but all I can do is one person at the time, so... Just give them a chance tp escape first as they do knock down a huge portion of the rodentia in the wild and if you're like me, i would rather scoot a snake along than have to live with rodents
Broncoholics, that sounds like a good sized female burm ya had

The buddy bunny wrap like that can be very scary and deadly, even has a term for it, SFE (stoopit feeding error) which can and does happen to the best of us eventually, especially when dealing with species that have strong feeding responses. My old retic, a 9 foot male gave me a wrap up like that, but I got lucky and guided him around my arm and away from my neck. Just a big bloody mess after that with very little damage to me and none to the snake. That SFE was entirely my fault as I had a few drops of rat scented water on my hand (forgot to wash...) and the snake was still in feed mode.