This tourist family turned down the wrong Brooklyn block — and came face-to-face with a K2 “zombie” overdosing on the synthetic weed, a new video shows.
The footage features James Jones, 27, screaming at the top of his lungs as he ambushes the horrified group on Tuesday morning, with his arms flailing violently.
He allegedly knocked the woman in the striped dress to the ground before cops finally grabbed him.
“My f–king throat, my f–king throat is on fire!” he shouted, according to witnesses. “Get it out, get it out!”
Jones, a father of three, told The Post he hit rock bottom when he crossed paths with the out-of-towners and later felt badly for terrorizing them while in his crazed state.
“I would definitely apologize to them,” he said, when asked what he would tell the family if he ever saw them again.
“Their first impression of New York is me running into them. I hope I’m not the reason the city gets its reputation in foreign countries.”
Jones, who lives in the Eddie Harris shelter on Chauncey Street and is trying to get his GED, said he watched the video Wednesday and was sickened.
He swears he will never touch the stuff again. “I’m done with that,” Jones said. “I have three kids. Two girls, 8 and 5, one boy, 6. I’m done with [K2]. I’m turning it around, going back to school.”
Jones said he smoked a bad batch of K2 and was just trying to get help when he saw the family walking along the sidewalk. “I was choking,” Jones said. “I ran out to get help, my throat was swelling up and I couldn’t breathe.”
A total of 33 people were hospitalized during Tuesday’s massive wave of overdoses.
On Wednesday, cops flooded the area — corralling K2 users and forcing them into ambulances to make sure they weren’t high.
“They’re picking up everybody!” said Alexander Iliev, 20, a vagabond from Newark.
“Cops said, ‘You’re getting in the ambulance or you’re coming downtown.’ So I got in the ambulance.”
Cops also raided five local delis suspected of peddling the fake pot to people.
Three arrests were made on unrelated offenses, and no K2 was recovered.
Synthetic marijuana is a blend of dried leaves sprayed with chemicals. It affects the brain differently than cannabis. K2 users can experience adverse effects such as seizures, hallucinations and difficulty breathing.
Jones told The Post he was born in Brownsville and raised in a group home in The Bronx after running away at age 11.
He said he had been studying at the Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center for the past two months. His shelter is a 10-minute drive from Broadway and Myrtle Avenue — a notorious haven for K2 users known as “Zombieland.”
Several K2 users who were hospitalized Tuesday were back on the very same streets Wednesday, including a woman featured on the front page of The Post who was barely conscious.
When asked if she was feeling better, the woman simply replied, “Yes,” before scurrying off. She was wearing the same outfit — and still had on her hospital identification band.
Additional reporting by Stephanie Pagones