Anyway you slice it, he’s a lunatic.
The unhinged nutjob who allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail once pointed a BB gun at the Bronx pizzeria where he worked — before suing his boss for millions along with the Pentagon, according to the former employer and court papers.
Mark Anderson, 36 — who was tossed in the same jail as his accused assassin idol after allegedly trying to bust him out with a pizza cutter Wednesday — went berserk when he got canned from Louie and Ernie’s Pizza in Throgs Neck last spring, said owner Cosimo Tiso.
“He was relieved of duty last year right around April, and he’s been a little chaotic in my life since then,” said Tiso, 55, adding that he’s been repeatedly sued by the former worker.
“He’s a serial litigant… This was a big surprise,” he told The Post on Friday.
Anderson allegedly showed up at the old school pizza shop on Crosby Ave wielding a BB gun — and was caught on camera pointing at a security camera and pretending to pull the trigger, according to footage provided by Tiso.
In the video, he wears a face mask as he allegedly bangs on the window of the pizzeria with the weapon.
“He was arrested on Christmas,” Tiso said. “Turns out it wasn’t [a real gun.]”
The day after the bizarre incident, Anderson sued Tiso, alleging that the pizza boss made him work 70 hour weeks for two years without receiving overtime — and demanding $12.5 million, court records show. The case is still pending.
Acting as his own lawyer, Anderson has also filed handwritten complaints in Manhattan inexplicably suing the Pentagon, and the ambassadors to China and Russia, court records show. All of those lawsuits have been thrown out.
Tiso, also Anderson’s landlord, said he worked at the restaurant for a year before he “changed.”
“He worked here and paid his rent, and we had a good relationship. This is very, very odd that it came about this way,” Tiso said.
“He was a tenant of mine at a point, he still is getting evicted, and today would be his first court appointed eviction date, and he’s not going to show up,” he said.
On Wednesday night, Anderson allegedly posed as an FBI agent and made the bonkers claim that he had an order “signed by a judge” to free the accused cold-blooded killer from a Brooklyn federal lockup, where he was being held without bail.
When asked to show his credentials, Anderson allegedly took out a Mankato, Minn. driver’s license at the Metropolitan Detention Center and said that he had weapons in his bag.
Staff guarding the intake area searched the bag and found a BBQ fork and a “round steel blade” that resembled a pizza cutter, court papers said.
Anderson was ordered held without bail at his first court appearance in the case Thursday afternoon, as his lawyer, Michael Weil, said he was mentally ill and argued in vain for him to be released to a hospital for treatment.
“I’m surprised that he would even go to this level,” Tiso said of the incident. “I don’t know how he got this in his head.”
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