Let’s see cops lift fingerprints off these weapons.
Three youths who allegedly went postal on a Brooklyn mailman yesterday were collared for criminal possession of a weapon — hard-as-ice snowballs.
Mailman Russell Bumpurs, 33, was working his normal route in Flatlands at around 3 p.m. when the kids started zinging him with the snowballs as he delivered the mail, cops said.
Perhaps remembering the creed, “Neither snow nor rain . . .” Bumpurs yelled at the three stooges to cease fire so he could continue making his rounds in the tough stretch of the Flatlands section on East 54th Street near Avenue K.
Instead, the ice-cold punks pummeled him senseless, police said.
The attack on the postal worker included a pounding with lefts and rights to the body and head, cops said.
Steamed witnesses called 911, and cops ended the fracas at the scene.
Walter Ward, 16, of Flatlands, and two juveniles were charged with criminal possession of a weapon — the snowballs — along with assault, menacing and harassment.
“Maybe these punks will be getting their mail in jail,” a law-enforcement source told The Post.
Postal officials decried the attack as an outrage against the service, whose famous motto, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” is carved into the facade of the city’s main Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue.
“That’s terrible!” spokeswoman Darleen Reid-De Meo told The Post. “I’ve been with the postal service for 26 years, and I’ve never heard of such a snowball attack.”
Ward was arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court last night, while the two juveniles were given desk-appearance tickets.
Judge Joanne Quinones issued an order of protection telling the teen to stay away from Bumpurs.
“If you violate it, you will be arrested and face additional charges,” she said.
Ward left court with his coat over his head.
Defense lawyer Jacob Lipsky said that the beef was between Bumpurs and the two juveniles — and that Ward was the peacemaker.
“My client tried to intervene,” he said.
EMS treated Bumpurs for bruises and swelling, and the mailman — true to the service motto — returned to his route yesterday.