Posted on 02/16/2006 6:46:21 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
Half-naked bricklayer on a bender lunged at police with 4ft didgeridoo
By David Sapsted
(Filed: 17/02/2006)
A bricklayer brandished a didgeridoo at police when they were called to a disturbance at a seaside town, a court heard yesterday.
Ryan Jones, 23, ran at them with the 4ft instrument before being sprayed with CS gas and handcuffed.
He was drunk, half-naked and covered in blood after fighting with a flatmate, Hove Crown Court was told.
After Jones admitted a charge of affray, Philip Wakeham, defending, said: "If one were to compile a list of items to take up to commit affray, I would have thought a didgeridoo would come somewhere near the bottom. He did not strike any police officer at all."
He said the trouble started when Jones and Michael Davids returned to their flat after a drinking session. They came to blows after Mr Davids mentioned Jones's ex-lover.
"The breaking point was the mention of a man with whom it was thought his former girlfriend had a relationship," Mr Wakeham said.
Rajesh Pabary, prosecuting, said that when the officers arrived at the flat in Seaford, East Sussex, last June Jones "armed himself with the didgeridoo and shouted, 'I'll f***ing have you and any copper who dares to come in.' He continued to shout in a similar vein, swinging the didgeridoo at windows. They did not smash but bowed a little.
"Police sprayed captor gas to try to disarm him but he persisted. He proceeded out of the front door and started threatening officers with the didgeridoo.
"Officers told him to put it down but he continued. Eventually he was sprayed with captor gas again and he dropped the didgeridoo."
Jones was ordered to complete a 12-month community order, do 180 hours' unpaid labour and pay £150 prosecution costs.
Sentencing him, Recorder Ian Wilson said: "This was clearly a very unpleasant experience for those who had to attend the scene. It was clearly very frightening."
Afterwards Jones said: "The police took the didgeridoo away. I had only just learned how to play it."
• The Australian aboriginal didgeridoo is one of the oldest musical instruments known to man.
MUST...
RESIST...
TEMPTATION!!!
Didgeridon't, man. They'll didgeridoo you.
My other didgeridoo is an electric guitar.
I think a didgeridoo is like a SkiDoo or SeaDoo except made for riding through ditches.
Half-naked bricklayer on a bender lunged at police with 4ft didgeridoo
Play me a digeridoo Stu,
Play me digeridoo...
Lawrence O'Donnell thinks this guy may have been drinking.
A didgeridoo to you.
I'll put my money on the guy with the brimmed hat over the guy with the lederhosen.
A didgeridoo to you too!
A moose once blew my didgeridoo...
Play your didgeridoo, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Ah, like, keep playin' 'til I shoot thru, Blue
Play your didgeridoo
Altogether now!
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
Tie me kangaroo down
Wow, with a didgeridoo that long he should be in films.
This sounds like something out of a Monty Python skit.
You just know that some threads are going to be fun right from the headline.
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