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Half-naked bricklayer on a bender lunged at police with 4ft didgeridoo
Telegraph of London ^ | 2/16/06

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.


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To: CindyDawg
Do you think our drunks make the news over there?

Think they heard about the actor from Texas caught playing bongos naked?

61 posted on 02/16/2006 7:36:52 PM PST by forester (An economy that is overburdened by government eventually results in collapse)
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To: iPod Shuffle

You can't make cr@p like this up.


62 posted on 02/16/2006 7:37:31 PM PST by Xenophon450 (Behead those who say Islam is violent)
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To: ridesthemiles
Are you pulling my leg?

What do you think? ; )

Come on, can't ya see the humor in this story and in the word didgideroo?

63 posted on 02/16/2006 7:38:55 PM PST by Fruitbat
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To: Roy Tucker
Must have answered one of those SPAM ads...

ONE? Heck he must have answered ALL of them! : )

64 posted on 02/16/2006 7:40:18 PM PST by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Fruitbat
"I think a didgeridoo is like a Skidoo or Seadoo except made for riding through ditches"

I think someone has recently been playing Balderdash.

65 posted on 02/16/2006 7:45:33 PM PST by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Try Common People by Bill Shatner and Joe Jackson.

It's Shatner's version of Kahn's brain bug from The Wrath of Kahn.

Chechov; "It was Kahn capteen. He put a bug in my ear and it took over my brain. Make it stop capteen. Make it stop!!!! "

Kirk: "Sure I can make it stop Chechov, just have a listen to my new CD."


66 posted on 02/16/2006 7:47:32 PM PST by beaver fever
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To: magslinger

..."so we tanned his hide when he died,Clyde,and that's it hangin' on the shed."


67 posted on 02/16/2006 7:48:11 PM PST by Armigerous ( Non permitte illegitimi te carborundum- "Don't let the bastards grind you down")
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To: beaver fever
Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl,
keep me cockatoo cool.
Don't go acting the fool, Curl,
just keep me cockatoo cool.
Altogether now!

My cockatoo is *always* cool:

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68 posted on 02/16/2006 7:49:37 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: iPod Shuffle
They will get my Didgeridoo, when they pry my cold dead hands off my didgeridoo!
69 posted on 02/16/2006 7:50:43 PM PST by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: Ichneumon

Yes he's very cool. Just don't go acting the fool.


70 posted on 02/16/2006 7:52:08 PM PST by beaver fever
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To: builder

Pretty dang funny.


71 posted on 02/16/2006 7:52:21 PM PST by Justice
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To: iPod Shuffle
I say again:

WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, OVER!

72 posted on 02/16/2006 7:52:31 PM PST by SquirrelKing (Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.)
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To: SquirrelKing

How do Freepers come up with stuff like this - Too Hilarious!!


73 posted on 02/16/2006 7:54:54 PM PST by Justice
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To: beaver fever
It's Shatner's version of Kahn's brain bug from The Wrath of Kahn....

BACK! BACK! ...No Closer!

74 posted on 02/16/2006 7:56:19 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: Justice
LOL

Far too much free time.

75 posted on 02/16/2006 7:56:58 PM PST by SquirrelKing (Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.)
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To: iPod Shuffle; Squantos; Eaker; elkfersupper

What caliber is your didgeridoo?


I loaned mine to Hillary to hunt ducks with .


76 posted on 02/16/2006 8:00:37 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: magslinger
Fiddlstix, you didn't start on time.

LOL! Can't be helped. I'm an old geezer J

77 posted on 02/16/2006 8:06:15 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: iPod Shuffle

We will NEVER EVER SEE AS LONG AS WE LIVE , thirteen words arranged together any stranger or more unlikely than:
"Half-naked bricklayer on a bender lunged at police with a 4ft. didgeridoo" They will never be uttered or written again in human history, except as quoted on this thread.


78 posted on 02/16/2006 8:10:39 PM PST by willyboyishere (You'd better begin living the way you think, or you'll soon be thinking the way you live> Brecht)
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To: ridesthemiles
To listen to one of the things, click here 

 Or,
click here
Or 
click here 

79 posted on 02/16/2006 8:15:43 PM PST by Darnright (Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.)
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To: Cicero

"Whoa, check out the bong..."

80 posted on 02/16/2006 8:19:19 PM PST by JRios1968 (I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than take a ride with Ted Kennedy)
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