A Drunken Man attacked a Nativity scene outside a Long Island Knights of Columbus hall, hurling the plaster figurines of two Magi, two sheep and Joseph onto Jericho Turnpike - but cops were able to stop him before he destroyed the Baby Jesus or Mary, police said yesterday.

Otto Quinteros vandalized the Mineola creche after drinking heavily in a local bar Tuesday night, cops said.

He allegedly tore off a plexiglass screen to get into the 6-foot-high wooden shelter - then began heaving the 40-year-old plaster figurines, some weighing as much as 50 pounds, onto the bust turnpike.

A witness called the cops, and Quinteros, 38, was caught in the act about 9:30 p.m., authorities said.

Quinteros, who is unemployed, has a rap sheet dating to 1998, mostly for disorderly conduct and public drinking charges. He was arraigned yesterday in 1st District Court, Hempstead, on a felony criminal charge.