Willard Yoder tied his horse and buggy behind the Takehome Restaurant expecting a rendezvous with a 13-year-old girl he’d lured there with hundreds of sex messages and photos.

Instead, he found the Connersville, Ind., police.

The Old Order Amish man had no Social Security number and a Grade 8 education, but he did have a cellphone he’d used to send vivid descriptions of sex and pictures of his genitalia to his new friend.

The girl, who was actually 12, had turned her cellphone over to her mother early on in the correspondence.

When they nabbed him in the sting, Yoder told Connersville Police in Milroy, Ind., he did think he was going to have sex with the girl, but thought she was 13.

“He realized it was a bad decision and had never done anything like this before,” police said.

Yoder’s parents had to collect his horse and buggy after their son was busted last week.

Despite a reputation for avoiding modern technology, the Old Order Amish have used cellphones for years, Wired magazine reported as far back as 1999.

“Far from knee-jerk technophobes,” Wired reported, the Old Order Amish are “very adaptive techno-selectives” who “adopt technologies that can enhance their productivity.”