Goetz hit on pretty cop who busted him for pot

He can’t Goetz no satisfaction.

Subway vigilante Bernard Goetz was lamely hitting on the young undercover cop who busted him Friday evening for allegedly selling her $ 30 worth of pot, The Post has learned.

The female undercover, described as young and cute, had no idea who the “creepy old man” was who chatted her up in Union Square Park at around 5 p.m., a source familiar with the investigation said.

But by the time flirtin’ Bernie allegedly invited her up to his West 14th Street apartment to “get high,” she’d learned he was a little lecherous around the edges.

Goetz, 65, was busted after leaving the apartment with the unidentified cop.

The van that escorted Bernard Goetz at Manhattan Central Booking.Photo: Christopher Sadowski

“It sounds like he was definitely trying to pick her up. But what a pickup line — give me $ 30,” the source said of Goetz, who became a part of city lore in 1984 when he shot four youths who he said were threatening him on a downtown 2 train.

“She was young and pretty and found him to be fairly creepy,” the source added. “He was just this creepy old man to her.”

Goetz was awaiting arraignment before Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Gerald Liebovits on misdemeanor marijuana possession and sale charges Saturday afternoon.

He spent Friday night in custody due to the lone charge that stuck to him — felony gun possession — when a jury believed his account of having fired five shots at four black teenagers in self defense and cleared him of murder, assault and reckless endangerment.

The controversial acquittal divided the city, with many arguing that he was a dangerous racist and others that he was a crime-fighting hero.

“You don’t look so bad, here’s another,” he infamously admitted telling one of the teens he shot — a statement he later denied making.

Goetz has largely kept a low profile in the years since winning his acquittal and losing a subsequent civil trial on behalf of the teens he shot, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey and James Ramseur, all pals from the Bronx.

He ran for mayor in 2001 and for Public Advocate in 2005, but since then has largely only agreed to media interviews on the topic of his activism on behalf of troubled city squirrels.

Goetz regularly feeds and rescues squirrels, and has posed for news cameras with his own pet squirrel, “Creme Puff.”

Two of the teens Goetz shot, meanwhile, have had their own brushes with the law.

Ramseur — claimed to have been brandishing a screwdriver while demanding money — wound up dead of a prescription overdose in 2011 after serving prison time for a Bronx rape and robbery.

Allen has served time for two robberies; Canty is a mechanic and lives in the Bronx; Cabey remains paralyzed and lives with his family in Valley Stream, NY.

“Bernie Goetz has gone from a love affair with guns to a love affair with squirrels and pot,” noted Cabey’s lawyer, Ron Kuby.

“I guess that makes him less dangerous to the innocent

“He don’t wanna hear about that guy. It was a nightmare, you know?” Cabey’s brother Victor told The Post of Cabey’s reaction to the Goetz bust.

Said Canty’s brother, Carl, “Life is a cycle. What you put in is what you will get back out of it. He [Goetz] puts in evil and now he is getting back evil.”

Additional reporting by Jennifer Bain, Georgett Roberts and Kathryn Cusma

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