He’s A Wild And Crazy Guy!

A Long Island man who was late for his . . . ah, just let the Post pick up this wild and crazy tale:

[Roman Walkowiak’s] American adventure began Wednesday morning.

He was scheduled to take his citizenship test at 8 a.m. at the Brooklyn federal courthouse.

After circling the block for more than an hour, he parked illegally on the plaza behind Borough Hall, figuring he’d rather chance the ticket than miss his appointment.

After walking out of the courthouse proudly holding his citizenship certificate, Walkowiak was greeted with a rare gift from the NYPD: a ticketless car.

But then things began to go wrong.

Instead of backing onto Court Street the way he’d come, Walkowiak, for whatever reason, decided to drive through the plaza, directly to Adams Street.

Frightened passers-by ran screaming as the red Volkswagen made its way through the crowd.

In the confusion, Walkowiak somehow missed the fact that he was headed straight for a set of about seven stairs.

When his car suddenly lurched down the first step, he just kept going. Until his car bottomed out and refused to budge.

Exhibiting the never-say-die American spirit, he didn’t give up. As shocked onlookers watched, Walkowiak flipped his car into reverse and tried to back up the steps.

The maneuver only managed to wedge the car more firmly into place.

Nearby court officers quickly pulled Walkowiak from his car and demanded to know if he was drunk.

“No, but I’m on my way to get drunk because I just became a U.S. citizen!” he said.

The officers slapped a pair of handcuffs on Walkowiak, a divorced father of a son, and dragged him right back to the courthouse.

The officers called cops, who charged him on the spot with disorderly conduct, issued a desk appearance ticket with a $300 fine, and let him go.

“I was very happy to become a citizen,” he said. “And then all sorts of crazy stuff happened.”