JUST BEING A PUNK

Pace bullet excuse

The teenager whose bullet belt created a day of terror at Pace University said Friday he was simply expressing his personal punkrock style — and didn’t mean to spark panic.

“I feel bad. I heard people were crying and I was like, ‘F--k,’ because that was indirectly my fault,” Saad Al Saud, 19, told The Post.

The native of Saudi Arabia — who sports a white mohawk and listens to the band The Dead Kennedys — said he was only making a fashion statement.

“I bought the belt online. I just saw it and liked it. I didn’t mean for it to be seen in that manner,” he said. “I wasn’t trying to incite anything, I was just wearing it. It’s just my style, I guess.”

Students reported an active shooter after his belt was spotted on the floor of a bathroom stall Thursday.

But Al Saud disclaimed responsibility for the counterterrorism evacuation that followed, saying, “I don’t think [the scare] was anyone’s fault. I don’t think anyone should be held responsible — particularly not me.”

The school’s dean asked to speak to him Friday but he has not been punished, he said. He will stop wearing the belt if the school asks him to, he said.

He said he no longer has the belt (inset). “The cops took it,” he said.

The confusion began when students took a Snapchat video of him while he was using the restroom. “It’s just that this time I was in the bathroom and I have to take my belt off, obviously, and people saw it and there was this confusion. I saw some kids trying to Snapchat me and I was like, ‘Why are people Snapchatting me while I’m taking a s--t?’ ” he said.

“So I said, ‘What the f--k?’ And they scrammed the f--k out of there,” he said.

“They told the cops that they thought I was loading a weapon, but really I was just sitting down, and I got mad because I thought they were Snapchatting me.”

Al Saud moved to the US two years ago and went to high school in White Plains. He is a computer-science major, and stands at a striking 6-foot-8.