Cyclist Bitten By Venomous Snake On Palisades Bike Path After Getting Too Close

Dan Geiger was cycling on the path along the Palisades cliffs that stretches from Fort Lee into Englewood Cliffs and Alpine, when he spotted a small snake on the path near the cliffs.

Geiger, a writer from New York City, didn’t want it to get crushed by a bike or car. When the snake wouldn’t move after he nudged it with a water bottle, he reached out with his hand — and that’s when the snake struck him with “precision and speed,” he said in an interview with Fox News.

“I knew something was wrong immediately,” Dan said…

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