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He’d fix the toilet if only he could get the f – – – over his anger:

Bay Ridge handyman Richard Martin is known as the “Crazy Sign Guy” for the scathing notes he leaves his tenants, attacking their reading skills and threatening to kill them for trashing his Christmas decorations.

“Dear scumbag” the 71-year-old crank wrote after the decorations were torn down and unceremoniously dumped on his doorstep. “If I catch you, I will kill you where you are. You don’t want to f- – – with the Irish.”

Most of his tenants are from the Middle East, and Martin doesn’t hide the fact that he’d be happy if they went back whence they came.

In another note, Martin wrote, “To all tenants. If you don’t know how to read, there are 3 airports, pick 1 and keep going and don’t come back.”

“He’s crazy,” one tenant said. “He’s nuts.”

Standing outside the four-story building at 278 91st St. holding his cuddly Pekinese dog, Pretty Girl, the potty-mouthED senior told The Post that most of his notes are geared toward tenants’ inability to follow orders on how to throw out trash.

“They’re Arabs, they don’t give a f- – -,” said Martin, sporting a Ground Zero memorial baseball cap.

. . .

Martin, a former transit employee who became a super in 1994, said he started writing the notes a few years ago because the building regularly received summonses for trash collection.

He said in the past week, he’s received two summonses worth $125 in fines. That led him to post new notes, telling tenants to “put garbage inside the cans and not on top of [trash can] covers,” adding, “This is the last warning.”

“They don’t listen. They write back, ‘F- – you, get a life,’ but they spell my name s-u-p-p-e-r, not super. They’re so dumb,” he said, pointing to mounds of trash piled illegally near the curb.

Posted: February 22nd, 2008 | Filed under: Brooklyn
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