I'd do it. There's too many do gooders on this website, snakes have evolved over how many thousands of years to with stand injuries from biting and grappling live, moving, prey that fights back to cause injury... I can't see how this could be any different to getting a feed response off of a snake and trying to get it off. You'd probably do more damage to a snake in said situation.. But hey I don't have the ammount of experience of all the people that have commented in this thread.. all of you with your 1 individual snake...
I've got some little prick Spotted's here that'd do the job perfectly, and some juvenile Darwins that love a good munch. I also have a 6ft Bredl's that'd love to have a munch. But unfortunately I work when the show is on - best of luck though nova, don't listen to the idiots in this thread. Half of them wont even be members here or keeping snakes in the next 2 years, as long as you find someone with half a brain who knows how to handle a snake you'll be right.
Good luck.