A New York cyclist who tried to save a venomous snake from being run over was instead bitten by it — sending him to the hospital with a grotesquely swollen purple finger.
Dan Geiger, a writer from Manhattan, was pedaling along New Jersey’s Palisades Cliffs when he spotted the copperhead snake lying across the pavement and feared it would be run over by a car, according to Hackensack Memorial Health.
“I nudged it,” Geiger told Fox 5 of the viper snake that seemed “lethargic” and didn’t move.
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