Mrs Growler has just pointed this out as a warning to me:
Can't paste and copy it, as it's in the local rag, but a bloke near here is facing a minimum of 3 months in jail for brandashing and threatening to use a base ball bat at a gang of yobs that smashed up his kiddies goal posts in his garden, and then dropped their kecks at his young daughters.
Unfortunately for this poor sod who is in full time employment (for now) ,threatened the wrong yobs (alledgedly) who then reported him to the plod as they were 'terrified' apparently, so they say.
Sentencing has been adjourned until March 2nd, but he's been warned he will be facing a custodial sentence.