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.
Think they heard about the actor from Texas caught playing bongos naked?
You can't make cr@p like this up.
What do you think? ; )
Come on, can't ya see the humor in this story and in the word didgideroo?
ONE? Heck he must have answered ALL of them! : )
I think someone has recently been playing Balderdash.
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."
..."so we tanned his hide when he died,Clyde,and that's it hangin' on the shed."
My cockatoo is *always* cool:
Yes he's very cool. Just don't go acting the fool.
Pretty dang funny.
How do Freepers come up with stuff like this - Too Hilarious!!
BACK! BACK! ...No Closer!
Far too much free time.
What caliber is your didgeridoo?
I loaned mine to Hillary to hunt ducks with .
LOL! Can't be helped. I'm an old geezer J
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.
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"Whoa, check out the bong..."
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