New York Post

Reptile lover is snake-bit

- Amanda Woods and Brielle Paul

A snake bit its owner in the foot in a Manhattan apartment early Saturday, police said.

Waldo Santiago suffered the bite in his fifth-floor apartment on West 45th Street near Ninth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen at around 5:15 a.m., police sources said.

Santiago, 53, went to Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx stable condition, according to police. He has since been discharged.

Cops could not confirm the whereabout­s of the snake.

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