“He freaked out and punched the girl cop in the face,” his friend, dressed as Batman, later told the New York Post. Cops cuffed Batman but let him go because he didn’t cause any problems. The two had dressed up as the superheroes for laughs. Their comic-book adventure went awry when police learned they didn’t have the required license to perform in costume in public.

“I’m not getting arrested,” Katsnelson screamed.

It took a crowd of police to take the Man of Steel down. Meanwhile, Batman left with another costumed character, the Statue of Liberty.

And what a story he’ll tell

An Indiana woman was sentenced to six years in prison for cutting her brother-in-law’s throat during a sexual encounter that went terribly wrong.

Randy Howard still bears the scars from that hazy night of drinking, when he and his wife’s sister were having sex and she suddenly pulled out a box cutter. He said time behind bars would be good for his sister-in-law.

But the injuries have wounded Howard emotionally, he said.

“Every woman I’m ever going to meet is going to ask me about that scar,” he said, “and I’m going to have to tell them the story.”

Sneaker streaker gets Taser takedown

A Colorado man wearing nothing but tennis shoes led sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed car and foot chase that ended with him being Tasered, shot with a bean bag gun and charged with indecent exposure.

Deputies chased Peter Allen Steele, 38, on Saturday after responding to two reports of a 6-foot-7-inch, 250-pound man ringing a doorbell and standing naked in a doorway. The man hopped into a car and sped onto the highway. He then jumped out naked, except for his shoes, and ran into the open garage of a nearby home. The man went through the residence and to the back, where deputies used a Taser and a bean bag gun to end the chase, according to the district attorney’s office.

A search of his car later turned up a sex toy. Steele was charged with two counts of indecent exposure, driving while under the influence, resisting arrest, trespassing, vandalism and fleeing a police officer.

A German man who tried to fix his leaky air mattress with tire repair solvent blew up his apartment instead. The 45-year-old man used the solvent to plug a hole in his air bed and left it overnight. But it blew up when he went to inflate it the next day.

“A spark from the electric air pump ignited it,” a fire brigade spokesman said.

The blast pushed his living room wall into the building’s stairwell and caused extensive damage to walls, windows and furniture. Firefighters evacuated the 12-apartment building and a neighboring housing block while they checked for structural damage. The man suffered burns on his arms, while a 3-year-old girl suffered first-degree burns.