A dopey drug dealer ended up in jail after calling police 'c****'.
Dylan Whitehead, 25, brought himself to the attention of officers with the hot headed insult.
He wound down the window of a Seat Ibiza and shouted at the officers, who were carrying out another job in Salford.
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But Whitehead's remark led them to take an interest in him.
They followed him in the Ibiza which was being driven by his friend, 20-year-old university student Joseph Minas.
Even after the car was pulled over, Whitehead's antics helped to incriminate himself.
After asking an officer if he could smoke, he dropped a bag of white powder which he tried to hide with his foot.
Wraps of cocaine and heroin were seized from him in August.
"This in my submission is not a highly sophisticated offender involved in a chain of drugs supply," his barrister Amanda Johnson said.
"One can see that by simply looking at his behaviour, and how it was that he in fact drew attention to himself and effectively brought this investigation upon himself."
Police then searched the car and in the boot found more than 800 canisters of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas or hippie crack.
Minas, 20, was charged with possession with intent to supply psychoactive substances.
At his home police found £1,235 in cash in one of his jackets.
In total, police seized drugs worth more than £2,500, prosecutor Gavin Howie told Manchester Crown Court.
Whitehead, who has previously been jailed for drugs trafficking, was dealing after becoming heavily addicted to cocaine.
He had managed to kick his habit but started using it again after finding the first lockdown 'very difficult', Ms Johnson said.
Since being remanded in prison he has been drug free and is 'motivated to try and make a change', she said.
Minas got in a 'tailspin' after leaving university, and started dealing nitrous oxide to other students, his barrister Bejnamin Kaufman said.
He was 'ignorant' of the fact that dealing gas canisters had become illegal in 2016.
Minas has since sought to 're-evaluate' his life and now has a place on another course, to study accounting and finance at the University of Salford.
Whitehead, of Regent Square, Salford, pleaded guilty to possession with intent supply cocaine and heroin.
He was jailed for three-and-a-half years.
Minas, of Verdun Road, Eccles, admitted possession of criminal property, possession with intent to supply psychoactive substances, driving without insurance, disqualified driving, and possession of cannabis and ketamine.
He narrowly avoided jail after a judge accepted he was showing commitment to change.
Minas was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 175 hours of unpaid work, and observe a curfew for six months.
